Gregory Ernest Tikihana Whiteclffe
Born 4 August 1954 - Died 15 February 2001
Kerehi Tikihana Pararaki Wikiriwhi
Nationality: New Zealander, part Maori (Polynesian), Ngati Pikiao (Te Arawa) of the Bay of Plenty area (Maketu) Father: James Whitecliffe (died in 1973 at the age of 49) Mother: Shirley Abel (died in 2022 at age 85)
About Greg
Greg Whitecliffe was an artist, educator and Co-founder of Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in Auckland, New Zealand; an accredited degree-granting international private College. He pursued an active professional career which has varied from professional development in higher education management at Harvard University to stone lithographic workshops in Switzerland. Greg was a representative in International Orienteering representing New Zealand 69 times and competing in two world championships. Greg qualified with a Bachelor in Arts, two Masters Degrees a post doctoral course at Harvard and was working on his PhD up until he died in 2001. In the last few years of his life he had begun to have commentaries on New Zealand Contemporary Art and Art History published internationally. He was a member of ICFAD ( International Council of Fine Arts Deans) and was working towards establishing a purpose built campus for his Art & Design College. Greg and his wife Michele had established the first private degree granting art school in the country of which two post graduate degrees are unique to the country. Greg left behind his wife (Michele) and 3 children the eldest Amber Evelyn Whitecliffe (born 1987), Hayden Edward Tikihana Whitecliffe (born 1989) and Laken George Tewhiwhi Whitecliffe (born 1991).
MORE About Greg
Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design
New Zealand's first private degree granting institution
Greg and his wife Michèle started Whitecliffe College in the 1980s in Auckland New Zealand. This was New Zealand's first privately owned degree granting institution. The College was sold to an international owner in 2018 after Michele led the school for 17 years following Greg's death in 2001.
Telling the story
Michèle is documenting the story of how she and Greg started Whitecliffe College and also making some of the artwork in the Whitecliffe Collection available for purchase. Visit our website, www.whitecliffe.com for more information.
BIOGRAPHY
Gregory Ernest Tikihaha Whiteclffe
EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION
Greg was born in Wellington and christened at the Church of England in Maramar. He left Wellington at the age of ( 5 ) and moved to Tepuke where he lived for ( 3 years), before moving with his mother and grandmother to Birkenhead in Auckland, where he attended Birkenhead Primary School until aged 10. In 1966 at the age of 10 Greg and brother Philip moved with their mother Shirley to Norfolk Island where she was employed as the Islands sewer. Greg had his two intermediate years care free in Norfolk before applying for secondary school at Rathkeale College in Masterton. He flew by himself from Norfolk Island to Auckland, caught a train to Wellington where he was picked up by his Uncle (Ron Davis) and taken to the bus to go out to Masterton. Over the following 5 years when he was not at school, he would go and stay with his aunty or uncle or occasionally the headmistress would send him off to a religious holiday camp or in later years he had the odd trip to Auckland to stay with his dad over the holidays. During that period he only had one trip over to America to see his mother and younger brother who had moved to San Diego. Greg graduated from Rathkeale with full colours and was accepted into medicine at Auckland University, but after his first visit to the hospital and seeing bodies being opened - he fainted and decided medicine was not for him and transferred to architectural school. By the end of the first year he transferred yet again across to Elam and finished in 1976 shy of one paper for a double major of a Bachelor of Arts and a BFA. During his studies in Auckland University he became a house tutor at Dilworth College and in his spare time helped coach the boys how to Orienteer.
EDUCATION
- 1968 - 72 Rathkeale College, NZ Secondary College
- 1973 - 76 Auckland University, NZ B.F.A. Painting (Tutors: Robert Ellis, Don Binney, Garth Tapper)
- 1987 Massey University, NZ C.O.P. Education of Gifted and Talented
- 1992 - 94 Auckland University, NZ M.Phil. Management Studies and Art Administration
- 1994 - 96 Auckland University, NZ M.A. Art History to complete in 1996
- 1995 Harvard University, Certificate IEM - Post Doctoral Study - Institute of Education Cambridge USA Education Management, Graduate School of Education
- 1995 Waikato University, NZ (D.Phil) Enrolling for Doctorate Program in Arts Administration
MARRIAGE & CHILDREN
Greg married Michele on July 23rd 1982. Together Michele joined forces with Greg to start an art school and 5 years on Michele gave birth to the first of 3 children:
Amber Evelyn Whitecliffe was born 20th September 1987. She Graduated from Whitecliffe with a Bachelors of Fine arts, majoring in Fashion in 2009. In 2013 she established her own fashion label and boutique in Parnell Auckland, see www.amberwhitecliffe.com
Hayden Edward Tikihana Whitecliffe was born on the 9th March 1989. He graduated with a Bachelors in Business & Infomration Management from the University of Auckland and a Masters in Communications (Advertising) from the RMIT in Australia in 2011. He has worked in Consulting, Technology and Personal Media in Australia, China and Japan. See www.haydenwhitecliffe.com
Laken George Tewhiwhi Whitecliffe was born on the 15th June 1991. He graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Painting and Sculpture from Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is now living in New York working as an Artist and running an Art Collective Magazine/Website for New Zealander's in New York. See
SPORTING CAREER
Greg was a New Zealand representative in Orienteering: participated in World Orienteering championships in Scotland 1976 - Finland 1979 and Pacific Championships Australia 1980. National representative in twelve countries for major competitions 1976-1981
ORIENTEERING
1973/4 Auckland Provincial Athletic Representative
1973 New Zealand Commonwealth Games Trialist
1976 New Zealand Orienteering Representative to the World Championship, Scotland United Kingdom, 42 World Ranking
1978 New Zealand representative in orienteering in Test series in orienteering against Australia and European countries. Reserve for the World Championships in Kronsberg, Norway
1979 New Zealand Representative in Orienteering in the World Championship in Tampere, Finland
1980 New Zealand Representative in Elite class orienteering events, Switzerland, Sweeden, Norway, Hungary, France, Holland, Denmark, West Germany, Austria, Italy, Czechoslovakia
1981 New Zealand Reserve Representative in World Championship in Switzerland, New Zealand representative in Elite class in Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Austria.
1982 New Zealand Representative in Test series in orienteering against Australia
1983 Retired from professional sports
CAREER RECORD/PERFORMANCE FACTORS - ORIENTEERING, NZ REPRESENTATIVE
69 International Representative appearances
2 World Championships
2 Reserve appearances at World Championships
16th Highest World Ranking in elite Class 1980 (highest for a New Zealander 1974-1992)
1st New Zealand to compete internationally in Eastern Block Countries
MARATHONS
22 Marathons, 7 international; best time 2hrs 30 mins 34 seconds (San Diego, 1978)
TRAVELS
1975 Australia and Central Pacific regions
1976 United Kingdom Central & Southern Europe, North America and South East Asia
1977 North America
1978 Central Pacific and North America
1979 Scandanavia, United Kingdom, Central Europe, North America
1980 Australia, Central Europe, Scandanavia, United Kingdom, North America
1981 United Kingdom, Central Europe, Easter Europe, Scandanvia, North America
professional expereince
1980 Jury participant, Nola Holmwood National Portrait Award, Auckland
1985 Sole judge, Fisher Art Awards, Pakuranga Society of Arts, fisher Gallery Auckland
1986 National Art Judge, retort National Awards, Hamilton. sole judge of Painting, Printmaking and
Media section
1987 National co-judge for Citrus National awards, Tauranga
1988 National Art Judge, Medical practitioners Art Awards, Auckland
1989 National Art Judge, Thames Art Awards, Thames
1996 Telecom Art Awards, Auckland
1999 "A Career in Design" article in PRODESIGN Magazine, April/May. AGM Publishing, Auckland
1999 Monitor of Judging 1999 Best Awards - Design awards for the Designers Institute of New Zealand.
MEDIA ASSIGNMENTS
1981 Participant in "Master of Arts" television series - South Pacific television
1985-86 Contributing writer, specialist consultant for Art News
1986 Participant and consultant in "Weekend" television programme
1994 Participant and consultant in segment of "Made in New Zealand" by TVNZ made in the
1980-96 Regular talk-back guest on Radio New Zealand, National programme and Polytechnic Radio
1983-96 Intermittent guest speaker, panelist and commentator at functions for Art & Design organisations,
societies and Arts Administrator forums.
1999 Expert commentator on "Art and the Law" on HOLMES programme, TVNZ, May 1999.
1999 Commentator on Community Arts on Breakfast TV One, October 1999
2000 Commentator on Art Education on Prime TV, Arts Walk Programme, May 2000
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1985-87 Contributiing writer, Designer and Researcher for publication in Arts - Arts News
1981-90 Illustrator of books:
Series of three books in children's science fiction "Mr chip & The Aliens". 1981,1983,1986
through Hodder & Stoughton - Author Marie Studdard
"Growing with the Land" (1984), Author Lesley Max
"Auckland Police Centenary Book (1990)" Author Ken Brewer
1978-88 Graphic Design commissions for various companies, including log design, letterhead design,
Architectural renderings, book jacket illustrations, fashion renderings (including Fashion
Illustration for Zebra and Shirely Vickers Fashions USA
1990 & 1992, 1995 New Zealand Art Educators Conference, University of Canterbury and Auckland College of
Education, Wellington Polytechnic
1990 45th Commemoration of United Nations/UNESCO, 1990 Arts Assembly, Waitakere City
1992 International Council of Fine Arts, Deans Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA
1993 5th Triennial International Conference for Higher Eduction in the Arts, Madrid, Spain
1994 Australian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators Conference, Adelaide
1994 International Council of Fine Arts Deans Conference, Minneapolis, USA
1994-95 Compiling a book on the James Wallace Arts Trust as a case study of Arts and Business in
New Zealand. (As an adaption of a Masters thesis on the same topic).
1995 International Council of fine Arts Deans Conference, Montreal, Canada
1995 IEM Post-Doctoral Program for Presidents, Provosts, Vice Presidents in the Graduate School of
Education, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge USA
1996 MA Thesis monograph on New Zealand Printmaker Betty Curnow
1996 Compiling a book on the life and Art of New Zealand Painter Teresa Straka
1996 6th Triennial International Conference for Higher Education in the Arts and ELIA Conference
on Multicultural Arts Education - Lisbon, Portugal
1997 International Council of fine Arts, San Antonia, USA
1997 INSEA Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom
1997 ICOGRADA Conference in Punte del Este, Uruguay
1997/8 Cover of New Zealand Tertiary Studies Guide 1997 "Whaiaro Whakaahua A Moko" - Original
Painting
1998/9 Compiling a book on the life and Art of Australian artist Roy Dalgarno
1998 ELIA Conference, helsinki, Finland
1999 International Council of Fine Arts Deans Conference, St Louis, USA
1999 International Council of Fine Arts Deans "Global Arts Beyond 2000" Conference Auckland, NZ
2000 International Conference of Fine Arts, Miami USA
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Advertising Institute of New Zealand - Associate Fellow (since 1992)
American Center for Design - Professional Member (since 1991)
American Society of Landscape Architects - Affiliate (since 1992)
American Council for the Arts (ASA) Member (since 1996)
New Zealand Association of Art Educators (Member since 1992)
Australasian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators (Member since 1991)
Art Administrators of Auckland Inc - Member (since 1988)
Artists Alliance (Auckland) Subscription Member (since 1994)
Association of Arts Administration Educators (USA) Member (since 1995)
Association of Private Providers of Training and Education - Chairman (since 1989)
Auckland Chamber of Commerce - Member (since 1986)
Auckland Society of Arts - member (1973-1977) Working Member (1977-1982) Councillor (1978-1981)
Vice President (1981)
Council of Heads of Art, Design and Craft Schools in New Zealand - Member (since 1990)
Education Export Committee Inc. - Treasurer since 1995
Illuminating Engineering Society of New Zealand - member (since 1992)
International Council of Fine Arts Deans - Board Member (since 1992)
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts - Member (since 1992)
New Zealand Association for Training and Development - Member (since 1992)
New Zealand guild of Artist's Trust/UNESCO - New Zealand National Committee Member (since 1992)
New Zealand Ergonomics Society - Member (since 1991)
New Zealand Institute of Management - Associate Fellow (since 1992)
New Zealand Shopfitters Association - Member (since 1989)
New York Academy of Arts & Sciences, Professional member (since 1998)
Natural Woodturners Assoc (Inc) NZ - Member (since 1993)
Pro Passport - Professional Photography Network Assoc - Member (since 1993)
The American Society for Aesthetics - Member (since 1995)
The Pacific Arts Association (USA) - Member (since 1996)
The Society for Photographic Education in NZ (Inc) - Member (since 1993)
The ASG Scholarship Group, Australia - Careers Advisory council Member (since 1993)
Market Research Society of NZ - Member (since 1993)
Society of Cultural Economics USA - Member (since 1997)
PUBLISHED ARTICLES/ACADEMIC PAPERS/SUBMISSIONS PRESENTED
1984 "What is a Popularist" Art News Volume 1, No.2, June 1984 Pg 24
1984 "Aesthetics", Art News Volume 1, No. 4 October/November 1984, Pg 21
1984 "Figurative Art" Art News, Volume 1, No. 5, December 1984/1985, Pg 19
1985 "Art Training in New Zealand offers array of Full-time Courses" Art News, Volume 1, No.6
"Colour", Editorial Terms, Pg 21
1985 "Photography and Art - an Historical Account" Art News, Volume 2, No.1 April/May 1985 (under
a pen name)
1985 Editorial Terms "Watercolours" Art News, Volume 2, No.2 June/July 1985 (under a pen name)
1985 Editorial Terms "Pastels" Art News, Volume 2, No 4 October/November 1985 (under a pen name)
1986 "Careers in Art" Art News, Volume 2, No.5 December 1985/January 1986 Editorial Terms
"Still Life" Same Edition
1989 Senior conference paper presentation to the Government appointed working party for IWI, Private
and Special Institutions - Tertiary Education Review, Auckland
1989 Seminar Conference paper presentation to the Government appointed establishment committee for
the Education and Training Support Agency, Auckland.
1990 Seminar Conference paper presentation to the Establishment Unit Committee of the New Zealand
Qualifications Authority (then called NEQA) Auckland
1990 New Zealand Art Educators conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Academic Paper
"The Studio Versus Class System in Art Education"
1990 New Zealand Art Educators Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Academic Paper
"Private Art and Design Education. How important is it in New Zealand"?
1990 Submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee of Education and Science on the EDUCATION
AMENDMENT BILL (1990), witnessed at a select committee hearing in Auckland
1990 45th Commemoration of the United Nations, 1990 Arts Assembly, Waitakere City, International
Association of Art?UNESCO. Academic Paper, "The Future of Young Artists and Designers"
1991 Paper submission in person to the Minister of Education on the Development of the Private Tertiary
Education Regional Structures, Parliament, Wellington
1991 Submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee for Foreign Affairs, on the enquiry into Foreign
students in New Zealand; addressed at a Select Committee hearing in Parliament.
1991 Paper submission in person to the Associate Minister of Education on the Development of the Private
tertiary Education Regional Structures, Parliament, Wellington
1992 Paper submission to the Minister of Education on the developments of Private Training Establishments
in New Zealand
1992 Paper presentation to the Education Seminar of the Design Institute of New Zealand. "The Role of
Professional Design Education in New Zealand" (in conjunction with Auckland University, Wellington
Polytechnic, Unitec and Auckland Institute of Technology)
1992 Paper submission to the Minister of Education and Minister of Immigration. "Exploratory Data
Analysis of Private Tertiary education in New Zealand," - Mayu 1992
1993 Paper submission to the Minister of Education "EFTS Funding and relationships between NZQA and
PTE's - May 1993
1993 Seminar presentation on Co-Operative Initiatives in New Zealand Tertiary Art Education to the
council of Heads of Schools of Art, Design and Crafts, Hamilton
1993 Submission to the Ministerial Consultative Group on tertiary Funding on behalf of the Association of
Private Providers of Training and Education.
1994 Paper to be delivered at the NZ Art Educators Conference; Wellington Polytechnic August/September
"Socio-Cultural case study in tertiary Education".
1994 Academic Paper delivered at the Australasian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators Conference,
Adelaide, Australia September/October "Quality Assurance in a Creative Environment".
1994 Short Paper "Developments in the Private Tertiary Sector", at the Education and Administration
Leadership Seminar, August 10-12 1994, AIT, Centra Hotel, Auckland.
1994 University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA. Paper presentation "Making Faces" - European
representations of the Tattoo, cicatrix, Moko and Mokomai from New Zealand. Delivered to the
Art History Department and within a public forum.
1994 Presentation to the Executive Board of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans on behalf of the
Auckland City and the New Zealand Tourist Board and Conventions New Zealand to bid for the 7th
Triennial International Conference in 1999, Minneapolis, USA
1994 Winchester School of Art, University of Southhampton, UK Paper presentation "Making Faces",
European Representations of the Tattoo to the Fine Arts Department.
1994 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Dallas, Texas, USA Paper Presentation "Making Faces"
European Representations of the Tattoo.
1995 Northern Illinois university, Dekalb, Illinois. Academic paper to Department of Art History
"Developments in Contemporary New Zealand Art".
1995 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois. paper "Seeking points of Contact between the Indigenous
and European Traditions" Lecture on multi-cultural Art Education in New Zealand.
1995 Short Paper "the Emerging Role of Private Tertiary Providers in New Zealand: Opportunities for Cross
Sectoral Co-Operation/Collaboration." Australasian Institute of Tertiary Administrators, New Zealand
Branch and Regional Event - 21st June, 1995 Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design.
1995 "New Directions - the Development of a distinctive New Zealand Contemporary Art" Published Article
ASIAN ART NEWS, Hong Kong Vol.5, Number 4 July/August 1995
1995 "A career in Design" Published Article PRO DESIGN, August/September 1995, Auckland
1995 Presentation future bid of Auckland City to host the 7th triennial International Conference for Higher
Education in the Arts, 1999 - Montreal, Canada
1996 Submission Paper to the Ministers of finance & Education and the Ministry of education (including
Treasury: "Art & Design education. "the Number One Priority for Governmental Investment."
1996 "New tertiary Links Emerging" Published Article "LEARN", January 1996 issue 7, NZQA publication.
1996 Academic Paper "New Zealand Settlement by Indigenous People: Traditions of Moko & Mokomai;
Survey of Maori Culture", Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA
1996 Academic Paper "Maori Culture; rituals and Artforms, Visual Music, Dance, theatre". Montclair State
University, New Jersey USA
1996 'He Mihi Powhiri' Settlement of New Zealand, Maori Culture and Art Form presentation on 'Hetatanga
Maori Ahukahuka na tetahi Maori' - Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA
1996 "The Settlement of New Zealand and Aspects of Maori culture" - Hutton House Lecture, Long Island
University, N.Y. USA
1996 "Maori Kingship - systems of New Zealand (whanaungatanga)", Department of Anthropology,
Syracuse University, N.Y., USA April 4, 1996
1996 "Careers in Design" - Published Article in CHACDS Magazine, March 1996
1996 "International and National exchanges in the Arts" - Presentation Paper to the Faculty of Art,
University of south Australia, Adelaide
1996 Art & Design Education "The No. One Priority for Governmental Investment" - AITEA Conference
Manukau Polytechnic, July 1996
1996 Art & Design Education "The No One Priority for Governmental Investment - Business in Education
Conference, AIT, Auckland, July 1996
1996 Art & Design Education "The No One Priority for Governmental Investment - Business in Education
Conference, Eduvision 1996 - Art Educators Conference, Dunedin Polytechnic, September 1996
1996 "Careers: - Creative Enterprise" Published article PRODESIGN August/September 1996, Auckland
1996 "Multicultural Arts Education - The Pacific Experience". Paper presented ELIA International Conference,
Lisbon, Portugal, November, 1996
1997 Art & Design Education: The No.1 Priority for Government Investment - INSEA Conference, Glasgow
UK, July 1997
1998 "The Art of Mentoring", published article in PRODESIGN, August/September 1998, AGM
Publishing, Auckland
1998 "Art, What Is It?" published article in Auckland Eye, Auckland Winter Issue
1998 "Is Art Worth It?" published article in auckland Eye, Auckland Spring Issue
1998 Academic Paper "Developments in Contemporary New Zealand Art" Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, USA, College of Fine Arts and Communications. September 1998
1998 Conference Paper "Cultural Democracy Movements and Internationalisation in the Visual Arts and Design
in New Zealand "ELIA International Conference. Helsinki, Finland. November 1998
1999 The "Issues of Multicultural Art Education in New Zealand", Chapter in published book "Beyond
Multicultural Art education: International Perspectives. Ed. By Doug Boughton and Rachel Mason.
Published by Waxmann. NY. ISBN3-89325-783-7 p. 213-229
1999 "Community Art Centres within New Zealand" Paper presented at New Zealand Educational
Administration Society Conference at the University of Auckland January 1999
1999 "Global Arts Beyond 2000" Conference Paper. Aotearoa New Zealand Art Educators Association
Christchurch, New Zealand
1999 "Global Arts Beyond 2000" Conference Paper, Aotearoa New Zealand Art Educators Association
Christchurch, New Zealand
1999 "Global Arts Beyond 2000 PRODESIGN April/May 1999 (pgs 77-80,94)
1999 'Kick-starting a design career - ProDesign 1999 Supplement August/September. Section on Design
Education in 2000
2000 'Making Art Education a Priority' PRODESIGN February March 2000 Designlogue Journal Article.
2000 "Heart of the Nation" submission prepared for the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Heritage, under the
auspices as President of the Designers'Institute of New Zealand
Artistic Career
Greg's Artistic Career
1975 Hansells NZ Sculpture Award - Finalists, Masterton, NZ
1976 NZ Universities Exhibition - Bett Duncan Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1976 2nd Benson & Hedges (29 painters) - Barrington Gallery auckland, NZ
1977 Easter 3-Man invitation - Hastings Cultural Centre Hastings, NZ
1977 NZ Flora & Fauna Exhibition - Auckland, NZ
1978 Group Show - Dowse Gallery - Gisborne NZ
1978 Two Man Show - Gallery 2 - Auckland, NZ
1979 Two Man Show - Thornton Gallery - Hamilton, NZ
1979 Two Man Show - Harrison Gallery - Tauranga, NZ
1979 Invited Northland touring exhibitions
1980 Two Man Show - Etchings - Galerie la Mezzanine - Auckland, NZ
1980 Two Man Show - Thornton Gallery - Hamilton, NZ
1980 Invited Artists, auckland Contemporary - John Leech - Auckland, NZ
1981 Invited Artists - Graphics ASA, Auckland, NZ
1981 Body Language Invited Group - Auckland Art Exchange, Auckland, NZ
1981 Two Man Show - Whangarei Society of Arts
1982 "Political Statements" - ASA, Auckland, NZ
1982 Group show Molesworth Gallery, wellington
1983 Figurative Painting, Duke of Wellington Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1983 Group Show, Harrison Gallery, Tauranga
1984 Group show, Whitecliffe Galleries
1985 Figurative Art Works, Whitecliffe Galleries
1985 Printmakers, Whitecliffe Galleries
1986 Landscape Painters, Whitecliffe Galleries
1986 Figurative Printers, Parnham Gallery, Hamilton
1987 Figurative Painters, Parnham Gllery, Hamilton
1987 Monoprints Whitecliffe Galleries
1988 Figurative Drawings, Whitecliffe Galleries
1989 Printmakers, Whitecliffe Galleries
1989 Stage Door Cafe Gallery,Auckland
1990 Ross Gallery, Wellington
1990 Parnham Gallery, Hamilton
1991 Nude Exhibitions Whitecliffe Galleries
1991 Ross Gallery, Wellington
1992 Ross Gallery, Wellington
1993 Aotea Centre, Auckland Invited Artists for the Japan Week Exhibition
1997 "Romance of the Mark" - Invited Artist for the Uxbridge Gallery Exhibition, Howick
MAJOR ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS
Brett Duncan Gallery (Wellington) 1976
Star Gallery (Hamilton) 1976
Thackeray Gallery (San Diego, USA) 1977
Auckland Society of Arts (Auckland) 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
Gallery 2 (Auckland) 1977
Grayson Gallery (Auckland) 1979
Lewis-Paape Gallery (Wellington) 1980
G.D. Harrison Gallery (Tauranga) 1979, 1980, 1981
Dowse Gallery (Gisborne) 1980, 1981
Anthony's Gallery (Palmerston North) 1981
Galerie la Mezzanine (Auckland 1979
Bay Art Gallery (Auckland) 1981
Molesworth Gallery (Wellington) 1982
Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, Christchurch 1982
Duke of Wellington Gallery, sydney, Australia 1982
Gisborne Museum and Arts Centre, Gisborne 1982
G.D Harrison Gallery, Tauranga 1983
Molesworth Gallery, Wellington 1983
Parnham Gallery, Hamilton 1983
G.D. Harrison Gallery, Tauranga 1984
Molesworth Gallery, Wellington 1984
Wairarapa Arts Centre, Masterton 1985
Whitecliffe Galleries, Auckland 1985
Molesworth Gallery, Wellington 1985
G.D. Harrison Gallery, Tauranga 1985
Parnham Gallery, Hamilton 1985
Whitecliffe Galleries, Auckland 1986
Hastings City Art Centre, Hastings 1986
G.D. Harrison Gallery, Tauranga, 1986
Whitecliffe Galleries, Auckland 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
Ross Gallery, Wellington 1991
Montclair State university Museum, New Jersey USA 1996
J.M. Moody Museum Gallery, Texas Christian University Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, USA 1996
Grand Forks Fine Art Museum, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA 1997
Rourke Art Gallery Museum, Morehead, Minnesota, USA 1999
SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS
1976 - QUEEN ELIZABETH II ARTS COUNCIL AWARD for travelling and study in the United Kingdom & Central Europe
1978 - ASA CARNEGIE SCHOLARSHIP for travel study in North America
1978 - JAPANESE GOVERNMENT "Monobusho" Scholarship for Post Graduate study in Japan
1980 - ASA Carnegie Scholarship for travel study in Central Europe and North America
RESEARCH TOURS
1976 United Kingdom, Central Europe, including Royal Academy Ecole des Beaux Arts, Budapest Fine Arts Academy,
Slade School of Art
1977 North America: including UCLA, Art Center Pasadena, Mexico, universities in North America, including Arizona,
Utah and California
1978 Australia, United States, South East Asia
1979 United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Central Europe, Middle East North Africa and Eastern States USA, Asia
1980 United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Central Europe, Australia and Central Pacific
1981 Scandinavia, Central Europe, USA, Central America
1982 Central Pacific Asia and Australia
1983 Australian Universities and Colleges of Art
1991 USA
1992 USA, Hong Kong (Universities and Colleges of Art and Design
1993 Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and USA (Conferences and Academic Papers/Research)
1994 USA, United Kingdom, France, Australia
1995 USA, Canada, Australia
1996 USA, Australia, Portugal, Fiji
1997 United Kingdom, Italy, USA, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia
1998 USA, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, Australia
1999 USA, Australia
2000 USA
HERALD - TJ MCNAMARA
Landscapes Yield To Bean Cans
The Exhibition by Greg Whitecliffe at Galeria La Mezzanine at the top of Parnell Road Shows him exploring new subject matter. He has left his usual tidy landscape subjects and character studies in favour of after studies in favour of painting drops of water, cans of beans and pies. New subject matter or not, most of the objects are still reported in his textured painterly manner and brown subdued tones. Where the painter departs both from his usual subjects and his usual style he achieves some fine things. "Drops on Green", which places three drops of water delicately on a green background, gains from smooth surface as does "Droplets" pm brown.
The other works are mostly conventional still lives with a hint of the Pop idim with out the hold glitter and size that the genre demands. Even the speech balloon on the otherwise excellent self portrait is a very self-confident addition. Though some of the new works are successful the painters heart really seems back with his neat character studies like "The morning Newspaper" and "The Plastic Bag".
12th December T.J. McNamara on ART
"Another gush of talent without direction is "A Virtuoso in Energy" by Greg Whitecliffe at the Society of Arts Gallery. This is a great mass of more than a 120 figure studies. All the figures are in movement - straining, leaping, heaving. They are all like studies for a great divine comedy that has yet to be painted. the best things are the oils which are the culmination of the studies; works like strongly modelled "Woman Asleep" or the tightly bunched figure in "Weeping". Energetic. Most of the rest of the figures strain and strut in an undefined space. Their musculature is careful and convincing except for the articulation of muscle and tendon under the chin. The show is at once energetic and sometimes sweetly erotic. But is a great wave of creativity that peers out across a wide beach in a never-never land.
