Dr Simon Mark
Born in Upper Hutt in 1957. Lived in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Vanuatu, India and Fiji. Thrown out of Fiji 2008.
Project and issue management; Strategic planning and thinking; Teaching; Research; Writing (such as drafting of ministerial briefs, business plans and proposals, but also the occasional article); and The social side of diplomacy
PhD University of Auckland, 2008. Thesis available at http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/2943 MA (Hons), University of Auckland, 1985 BA, Victoria University of Wellington, 1980
PhD University of Auckland, 2008
MA (Hons), University of Auckland, 1985
BA, Victoria University of Wellington, 1980
Public Diplomacy Adviser, MFAT; Trade Commissioner, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, based in Fiji Policy Manager (Projects) with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage; Management consultant with RBZ Group Limited (an Australasian consulting firm) and Arthur Andersen (an international auditing, taxation and business consulting firm); VSA (Volunteer Service Abroad) field representative in Vanuatu, and a VSA volunteer at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre; Executive assistant to the Mayor of Wellington, Hon Fran Wilde; Executive director of the Museum Directors' Federation; Manager of a cultural diplomacy office, working to the New Zealand High Commissioner to the UK, the late Bryce Harland; and Assistant lecturer at the University of Auckland.
2010 Marvellous Blind Spots. An exhibition of photographs at Expressions in Upper Hutt, 24 June to 8 August 2010
2006 There and Here: An exhibition of abstract photographs taken in India and New Zealand, at Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures, Wellington, New Zealand, 26 January-19 February 2006.
2005 Commissioned by Upper Hutt Developments to take a set of photographs for their new building in Upper Hutt.
2004 South/East: Eleven New Zealand Artists. India International Centre Annex Gallery, April 14 - 28 (group show). Photographers in Four Foyers. India Habitat Centre. New Delhi. The Mind's Eye. Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi. Traces (with Carolyn Fitzpatrick). Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu. 2003 Image and Object: Still Life in New Zealand. Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures, Wellington. New Zealand, November 2003 - February 2004 (group show).
2003 Plane Abstract: Photographs taken at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, India. India International Centre Annex Gallery, April 23-30.
2002 Reactions (with Hilary Scudder and Carolyn Fitzpatrick). British Council, New Delhi, 20-30 August. 2001 Australian High Commission, New Delhi (group show).
2000 Photo Images. Idiom Studio Gallery, Wellington.
1998 Painted Photographs. BAM Gallery, Wellington.
1984-95 Exhibitions of paintings in Wellington and Auckland. Work held in the Alkazi collection (Delhi), British Council collection India, and in private collections in NZ, Australia, India and the UK.
2004 Curated (with Helen Kedgley) South/East: Eleven New Zealand Artists.
2004 Member of the jury, Habitat Art Awards, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2002 Commissioned by Virgin Atlantic Airways to take a series of photographs.
1998 Corporate adviser (a VSA volunteer), Vanuatu Cultural Centre (1998).
1996 Curated (with Ralph Regenvanu) New Traditions: Contemporary Art of Vanuatu.
1993 Secretary, Mayoral working group review of the future of Wellington's museums.
1992 Australia-New Zealand Foundation traveling grant. 1990 Freeman of the City of London. 1990 New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
See also: http://gallery.me.com/simonmark#gallery
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