billadonna
I am a qualified Graphic Artist with work and life experience in a wide area of fields and a passion for public art, education and storytelling in visuals and words.
Now I devide my time between producing (sub)urban non-permanent art in public places and working as an Arts Educator. In a former life I enjoyed my fair bit of bohemian life in Berlin, writing surrealistic shorts and drawing weird cartoons. In another time and space I worked in the film industry as a Props Master, Design Assistant and Set Decorator in Germany, Czech Republic, England and Kenya.
Key skills:
- Mind boggeling developer of creative ideas
- Developement of educational resources (http://www.sculpturepark.co.nz/learnexplore)
- Team leading, research, budgeting, networking and interacting with suppliers, customers and trades people, logistic and supervision of staff, teaching of trainees
- Teaching art and illustration with an emphasis on visual storytelling(http://www.wsa.org.nz/school.aspx )
- Commercial Illustration
- Picture Book Illustration
- In design, Photoshop, Quark Express and Freehand
Overseas, BA in Illustration Design
- Study at the BildKunstAkademie Hamburg, Germany, graduating in Illustration Design on the 29th of March in 2003
- Study of Graphic Design, Lazi Akademie Esslingen, Germany
- ongoing- casual Educator at the Waikato Museum (http://www.waikatomuseum.org.nz/ )
- August to November 2011 - Gallery Host Contemporary Arts Award at the Waikato Museum http://www.natconartaward.org.nz/
- since March 2011 - Arts Educator at for the Waikato Sculpture Trust http://www.sculpturepark.co.nz/learnexplore
- March 2011 - Curatorial Assistant to Sarah Anderson, E:Scape at the Waikato Sculpture Park
- since 2010 - Art Tutor for Community Education at the Waikato Society of Art and Hamilton Fraser High Community Education
- March 08- July 08 - Pre-Press Operator CHB Mail Waipukurau
- 2006 - Art Tutor for Community Education, Collenso College Napier
- 1997 – now Freelance Graphic Artist (graphic props for various filmproductions, wall design, art tution, painting)
- 1992-1997 - Set Decorator for various Film Productions in Germany, Czech Republic, England and Kenya
- "Graffiato", a street art exhibition in Taupo http://sideroom.com/magazine/2011/10/graffiato/
- "Billadonnas Wunderkammer continues" extended version on the Museum car park wall, for as long as they will have me...
- "Billadonnas Wunderkammer" , a domesticated street art exhibition, different locations in downtown Hamilton, 22/9/'11-2/10/'11 http://hamiltonfringe.co.nz/2011/08/billa-donnas-wunderkammer-a-street-art-exhibition/
- "The Art of Freedom: Taking it back to the streets", live painting on 13/6/'11 in St Kevin’s Arcade and exhibition on 16/6/'11,Te Karanga Gallery, Karangahape Road, Auckland. www.amnesty.org.nz/news/famous-kiwi-street-artists-auction-amnesty
- Ujazi Cafe, 2006 (Napier)
- Willow Gallery, 2006 (Napier)
- Affordable Art Show, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (Wellington)
- Carmen Oberst Kunstraum, 2002 (Hamburg, Germany)
- BildkunstAkademie Student exhibitions, 2001,2002,2003 (Hamburg, Germany)
Member Profile
BilladonnaI always wanted to be an alien life form designer.
But that is another story and will be told in another time at another place.
I am, and always will be: passionate about storytelling, in words and visuals.
