Sriwhana Spong
Sriwhana Spong (born 1979) is an artist and dancer from New Zealand.[1][2]
Spong grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, in a family of Balinese origin. She studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating with a bachelor's of fine arts in 2001.[2] Her first exhibitions were in not-for-profit spaces in New Zealand, Australia and Germany. In 2003 she had her first solo show, at the Anna Miles Gallery.[2]
Spong also holds a master’s degree from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[3] Much of her work is in film and video, and reflects her training in classical ballet by focusing on dance and movement.[4] In 2010 she presented a multi-dimensional film at Art Basel, a re-imagining of a lost ballet, George Balanchine’s The Song of the Nightingale. The ballet was originally choreographed in 1925 however all that remains are fragments of a film of it, the score, and photographs of the costumes. Spong also published a companion book to her film.[5]
Recognition
In 2005 Spong's work Nightfall won the Contemporary Art Award at Waikato Museum.[2] In 2012 her work Fanta Silver and Song was shortlisted for the Walters Prize.[6]
References
- ^ "Sriwhana Spong - Black Magazine NZ". www.blackmagazine.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ a b c d "Sriwhana Spong". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ Noted. "Mind on the past: Sriwhana Spong - Metro". Noted. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm | Biography: Spong, Sriwhana". www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ "Sriwhana Spong, Nijinsky - Michael Lett". Michael Lett. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ "The Walters Prize 2012". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
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