ABOUT
Cora-Allan Wickliffe b.1986
(Maori, Niuean) - Ngapuhi, Tainui/ Alofi, Liku
Cora-Allan Wickliffe is a multidisciplinary artist of Māori and Niue descent, originally from Waitakere. She has recently returned to Aotearoa after working at the Walter Phillips Art Gallery in Banff, Canada. Her work often explores and examines constructed representations of Indigenous people and is always developing new ways of creating preferred representations. Cora-Allan has worked in the creative industry as a Curator, Preparator, Photographer, Artist and Educator. In 2013 she completed her Masters in Visual Art and Design from AUT, also receiving an AUT Postgraduate Deans award for her research and excellence. She is the Curator and Exhibitions Manager at the Corban Estate Arts Centre and is the proud mother of son Chaske-Waste Kaitiaki Twiss.
photo credit: Nattaporn Leelapisuit
SELECTED SHOWS
2018
Generation Housing NZ, Papakura Gallery, Auckland
2017
Generation Housing NZ, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
Neighbourhood Exhibition, Corban Estate Arts Centre
Estuary Ecology Prize Exhibition - finalist, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland
2016
Table top design competition, Selected Finalist, Lakehouse Gallery, Auckland
Spring runoff – MST Festival, Calgary, Canada
Fifty Shade of Blak, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, Fringe Festival Best Visual Arts Exhibition 2016
Offstage 7, Artspace, Auckland
Found Footing, Whipper Snapper Gallery, Toronto
Greetings from Canada, RM Gallery, Auckland
2015
Dusky Maiden, Elephant Artist Relief, Art Conference, Calgary, Canada
#HUI (Miseducation series), Untitled Art Society +15 Window space, Calgary, Canada
2014
Electric Waka, TeTuhi Art Gallery, Auckland
My Fale in the mountains, #Island time, Curated by Lana Lopesi, Auckland, New Zealand
From us to you, Moutain Standard Time festival in Calgary, Canada
Off the wall, Axe Neo 7, Quebec, Canada
A moment from 52 Sunline Avenue, Creative Time Summit, Nickle gallery in Calgary, Canada
From where I stand, Convergence Summit Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada
2013
Exotic weeds, in collaboration with Shannon Brett, Kick Arts Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Sole project, Art station, Auckland
Offstage, Art space, Auckland
Talkweek, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland
Whetu-Whenu-Whenua, Lopdell house, Auckland
Site Unseen – supporting performance in collaboration with Darcell Apelu, Lopdell house, Auckland
NgaRangatahitoa project, Wellsford library, Wellsford
If you were to live here, Auckland Triennale, AUT project, Auckland Art Gallery
Close to home, Tautai tertiary show, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
2012
Fry For Kai – invited by Local time artist collective, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
One night only, Opanuku studio, Auckland
Sole project, Art Station, Auckland
Talk week, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland
Tourists will be tourists, in collaboration with Jean Melesaine, AUT Art and design building, Auckland
This must be the place, Tautai tertiary show, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
Graduate Exhibition, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland (performance installation)
2007-2011
End of the Mudhole, Corban Estate Arts Gallery, Auckland
Art in Mind, Bricklane Gallery, London, England
NZ Art show, ASB Events Centre, Wellington
Open studio, Corban Estate Arts Gallery, Auckland
Materially concerned, Corban Estate Arts Gallery, Auckland
Con Artists, St Paul Street Gallery 3, Auckland
Graduate Exhibition, AUT University, Auckland
Affordable arts, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
Threads of Culture, Zeal, Auckland
Affordable arts, Corban Estate Art Gallery, Auckland
20x20 Take Away, Corban Estate Art Gallery, Auckland
Generation Housing NZ, Papakura Gallery, Auckland
2017
Generation Housing NZ, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
Neighbourhood Exhibition, Corban Estate Arts Centre
Estuary Ecology Prize Exhibition - finalist, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland
2016
Table top design competition, Selected Finalist, Lakehouse Gallery, Auckland
Spring runoff – MST Festival, Calgary, Canada
Fifty Shade of Blak, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, Fringe Festival Best Visual Arts Exhibition 2016
Offstage 7, Artspace, Auckland
Found Footing, Whipper Snapper Gallery, Toronto
Greetings from Canada, RM Gallery, Auckland
2015
Dusky Maiden, Elephant Artist Relief, Art Conference, Calgary, Canada
#HUI (Miseducation series), Untitled Art Society +15 Window space, Calgary, Canada
2014
Electric Waka, TeTuhi Art Gallery, Auckland
My Fale in the mountains, #Island time, Curated by Lana Lopesi, Auckland, New Zealand
From us to you, Moutain Standard Time festival in Calgary, Canada
Off the wall, Axe Neo 7, Quebec, Canada
A moment from 52 Sunline Avenue, Creative Time Summit, Nickle gallery in Calgary, Canada
From where I stand, Convergence Summit Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada
2013
Exotic weeds, in collaboration with Shannon Brett, Kick Arts Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Sole project, Art station, Auckland
Offstage, Art space, Auckland
Talkweek, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland
Whetu-Whenu-Whenua, Lopdell house, Auckland
Site Unseen – supporting performance in collaboration with Darcell Apelu, Lopdell house, Auckland
NgaRangatahitoa project, Wellsford library, Wellsford
If you were to live here, Auckland Triennale, AUT project, Auckland Art Gallery
Close to home, Tautai tertiary show, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
2012
Fry For Kai – invited by Local time artist collective, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
One night only, Opanuku studio, Auckland
Sole project, Art Station, Auckland
Talk week, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland
Tourists will be tourists, in collaboration with Jean Melesaine, AUT Art and design building, Auckland
This must be the place, Tautai tertiary show, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
Graduate Exhibition, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland (performance installation)
2007-2011
End of the Mudhole, Corban Estate Arts Gallery, Auckland
Art in Mind, Bricklane Gallery, London, England
NZ Art show, ASB Events Centre, Wellington
Open studio, Corban Estate Arts Gallery, Auckland
Materially concerned, Corban Estate Arts Gallery, Auckland
Con Artists, St Paul Street Gallery 3, Auckland
Graduate Exhibition, AUT University, Auckland
Affordable arts, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
Threads of Culture, Zeal, Auckland
Affordable arts, Corban Estate Art Gallery, Auckland
20x20 Take Away, Corban Estate Art Gallery, Auckland
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Men of Matariki, Corbans Estate Art Gallery, Auckland
Return to Sender, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
Same story different COLOUR, St Paul Street Gallery Three, Auckland
Trade and Exchange, Practicum exhibition, Project space, Banff Centre
Return to Sender, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
Same story different COLOUR, St Paul Street Gallery Three, Auckland
Trade and Exchange, Practicum exhibition, Project space, Banff Centre
AWARDS
AUT School of Art and Design Postgraduate Research Award 2014
Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi recipient 2013
Keir Trust Scholarship Award 2004-2008
RSA Community Award 2004
Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi recipient 2013
Keir Trust Scholarship Award 2004-2008
RSA Community Award 2004
MEDIA
https://hashtag500words.com/2013/05/08/return-to-sender-at-papakura-art-gallery/
http://www.axeneo7.qc.ca/event.php?lg=en&id=169
Interview with Channel Magazine - http://www.channelmag.co.nz/features/interviews/creating-vintage-tables/
Interview at Radio NZ - http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/20130421
Featured at Convergence Summit, Banff Centre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnr971H-rpw
Featured artist, Midsummer ball video (2015)
http://www.axeneo7.qc.ca/event.php?lg=en&id=169
Interview with Channel Magazine - http://www.channelmag.co.nz/features/interviews/creating-vintage-tables/
Interview at Radio NZ - http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/20130421
Featured at Convergence Summit, Banff Centre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnr971H-rpw
Featured artist, Midsummer ball video (2015)
WRITING
Gallery 36, Vol 4 no.2 - https://issuu.com/gallery36/docs/gallery36vol4no22012
Return to Sender - https://issuu.com/tautaipacificartstrust/docs/tautai_june_2013_web_pdf/3
Postcard from Portland - https://issuu.com/tautaipacificartstrust/docs/final_newsletter_d2fcf99bbd6a56
in Pursuit of Venus - http://www.axeneo7.qc.ca/event.php?lg=en&id=169
Return to Sender - https://issuu.com/tautaipacificartstrust/docs/tautai_june_2013_web_pdf/3
Postcard from Portland - https://issuu.com/tautaipacificartstrust/docs/final_newsletter_d2fcf99bbd6a56
in Pursuit of Venus - http://www.axeneo7.qc.ca/event.php?lg=en&id=169
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Inspite of ourselves (2012), panel discussion, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
Art and Design postgraduate research conference (2013), AUT University, Auckland
AUT Noho Marae (2017) AUT Marae, Wellesley
Indigenous and Pacific representation in art (2017), panel discussion, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland
Matariki 20x20 (2017) Corban Estate Arts Centre
Art and Design postgraduate research conference (2013), AUT University, Auckland
AUT Noho Marae (2017) AUT Marae, Wellesley
Indigenous and Pacific representation in art (2017), panel discussion, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland
Matariki 20x20 (2017) Corban Estate Arts Centre
cora.wickliffe@gmail.com / Auckland, New Zealand
