About

Danae Ripley Born in Rangiora, Aotearoa New Zealand, 1995. Lives and works in London.

Style

Danae Ripley’s work situates the human form within interior arenas. She works from observational drawings and frames enigmatic figures within (somewhat) public spaces. She is interested in the uncanny moments an individual has in public life. By employing shadows, doubles and causative relationships, she evokes experiences of being overwhelmed, unsettled and seeking calm.

Education

2021 – Master of Creative Practice, Unitec Institute of Technology
2018 – Bachelor of Creative Enterprise, Unitec Institute of Technology
2014 – Certificate in Design and Visual Arts, Unitec Institute of Technology

Exhibitions

2021 – No Hem, Sanc Gallery, Auckland
2020 – VA Group Show, Sanc Gallery, Auckland
2020 – Conditioner, Pah Homestead TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
2019 – National Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Waikato Museum
2019 – Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Exhibition, Whakatane
2019 – New Zealand Painting Printmaking Award Exhibition, Hamilton
2018 – Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards, Auckland
2017 – A Study of Bodies and Spaces, Snowwhite Gallery, Auckland
2017 – Eden Art School Awards Exhibition, Whitecliffe, Auckland
2017 – Emerging Artist Awards, Upstairs Gallery, Auckland

Writing

2023 – ‘Nine Artists’ – Salt & Greyboy Press
2022 – ‘Corporeal Cacophonies (Danae Ripley on Tyrone Te Waa)‘ – Objectspace Journal
2022 – ‘Slick and Twisted (Gabriel Tiongson)’ – Island Magazine
2021 – ‘Hide and Seek (Danae Ripley on Lorene Taurerewa)’ – The Art Paper
2021 – ‘Like a Moth to a Flame (Danae Ripley on Tira Walsh)‘ – Gallery 9
2021 – ‘Industry by Tira Walsh (Danae Ripley on Tira Walsh)‘ – Two Rooms Gallery
2020 – ‘Glitch and Gloss (Danae Ripley on Tira Walsh)‘ – Art News New Zealand
2020 – ‘Yvonne Abercrombie at Sanc Gallery‘ – Sanc Gallery

Awards

2019 – Molly Morpeth Canaday Craig’s Investment Partners, Youth Award
2017 – Unitec Applied Research in Contemporary Art Award
2017 – Upstairs Gallery Titirangi Emerging Artist 1st Place
2014 – Unitec Design and Visual Arts Award