February 29, 2012

IRENE FERGUSON (MFA 2005)

Leading Wellington art gallery {Suite} is presenting two pop-up exhibitions at 95 Willow St, Tauranga.

Strive Towards Your Destiny group's three painters exhibited together for the first time in 2008 at City Gallery in Wellington. Irene Ferguson, Arie Hellendoorn and Douglas Stichbury draw their influences from a diverse range of sources, such as portraiture, motivational slogans, geometric abstraction and the principles of academic history painting.


Ferguson was a finalist in The BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2006, and won the New Zealand Portrait Gallery/Adam Award in 2008. She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Fine Art, New York.