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Ira Mitchell

Christchurch

Profile

Painter

Classification

Independent

Here you can buy prints of my works

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME! I am currently looking for support in my AMP Scholarship PLEASE VOTE Application..go to http://www.doyourthing.co.nz/2010-01702/ira-mitchell-kirk to vote. Thanks for your supprt.
www.iramitchell-kirk.com My art is bright, bold and bordering on the abstract. I am enthusiastic about life and would love just to dive inside my paintings, live in a world of color and joy. By painting every day I feel like I do live in there, and constantly seek going back. My work is currently showing in Italy and New Zealand. and previously in New York. Born in Queenstowm, NZ, I am currently painting full time in Christchurch. Happy to create commission pieces. email: iraartist@hotmail.com. www.iramitchell-kirk.com

Education

BFA Design - Canterbury University
Diploma in Visual Communciations - Southern Institute of Technology
PostGrad Diploma in Secondary Teaching - Canterbury University

Awards

Top Student Overall in Visual Communications - 1989
Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship, Canterbury University - 1998
Gwendoline Mary Fleming Prize for Design, Canterbury University - 1999
Teach NZ Scholarship - 2008

Influences

Frizzel, McCahon, O'Keefe, Monet,Jane Evans, Shane Cotton

Be Free

Abstract

"Legato" Art Exhibition, Italy

Starting Over - Exhibition

NZ Artists' Guild Exhibition

Legato Exhibition of New Zealand art in the sala Pietro Malatesta, Biblioteca Comunale, Cassino, Italy, 15-29 May...

Cassino | 15 May - 29 May

Starting Over - Art Exhibition

Opening at 5.30pm to 8pm, Friday, May 21st. Silvan Cafe/Gallery, 320 Selwyn Street. New band, Loafer, playing from 5....

| 21 May - 21 Jun

Art at the Library - by Ira Mitchell-Kirk

A body of 20 works, reflecting my life and times. I create to make an emotional connection with the viewer and hopefu...

| 26 Apr - 20 May

Road Trip

Images of my favorite scenes on the road trip to Fairlie.

| 21 Jun - 21 Jul

This woman's world - paintings by Ira

Paintings about my life as a woman, mother, artist and a fragile, confused yet mostly positive human being, getting b...

| 26 Jun - 21 Jun

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