SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023, eating stars together at dusk, Ashburton Public Art Gallery, Canterbury

2023, a thin star wind grows, City Art Depot, Christchurch

   2021, we bled on the grass but we didn’t wake, City Art Depot, Christchurch

2019, Should we run to the lake made of shining stones?, City Art Depot, Christchurch

   2018, I am near the forest, but never in it, City Art Depot, Chirstchurch

   2018, I pick up my glowing sword, NEXT Gallery, Christchurch

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023, Whence It Came, Divisions Gallery, Melbourne

2023, Rooms of the Future, Absolution, Christchurch

2022, in the fading realm/first spill, City Art Depot, Christchurch

2021, Daisy Chain, The Den Project Space, Christchurch

2021, Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Auction, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch

   2020, Through Branches / Scattered Across the Lake, Nowhere Festival, Wellington

   2019, To Ōtautahi With Love, The Arts Centre, Christchurch

   2019, Showcase, City Art Depot, Christchurch

   2018, Preternatural, NEXT Gallery, Christchurch

   2018, MFA Group Show, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

   2017, Kaleidoscope World, The Colombo, Christchurch

   2017, Wallace Art Awards Finalist, The Pah Homestead, Auckland

   2017, Parkin Drawing Prize Finalist, New Zealand Academy of Fine arts, Wellington

 

PRESS:

2024, ‘the one-stitch wonder of Saskia’s dreamlike art’, Liz Cooper, Embroidery Textile Art Magazine

2024, ‘interview with Saskia Bunce-Rath’, Rie Natalenko, Yarn Magazine

2023, ‘Embroidered visions’, Theo Macdonald, North and South Magazine

2023, 'a thin star wind grows’, Warren Feeney, Metropol Magazine

2023, ‘Saskia Bunce-Rath - a thin star wind grows’, Cameron Ralston, City Art Reader

2021, ‘we bled on the grass but we didn’t wake’, Tessa Mcphee, Art Beat

   2018, ‘Bunce-Rath Tapestries’, Warren Feeney, Eye Contact

   2017, Warren Feeney, ‘Ten Christchurch Art Exhibitions to See in December’, The Press

2017, ‘I turn him into shadows’, Mimicry Journal ­

 

WRITING:

2017-2018, “Aliens in the Art Gallery,” HAMSTER magazine Vol. 1 – 3, The Physics Room

   2018, “Good”, Sweet Mammalian Journal

   2017, “Interview”, Takahe Magazine

   2017, “Host”, “In the Air”, Catalyst Journal

   2017, “Small Hopes”, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook  

EDUCATION:

University of Canterbury, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand – 2017-2018

   Master of Fine Arts in Painting

University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand - 2011-2015

   Bachelor of Fine Arts

   First Class (Hons)