Born in England in 1959, Stu Sontier has lived in New Zealand since the age of eight.
After a break from years of darkroom and documentary work (shown in multiple group and solo exhibitions and as part of the book Ink and Silver), he now uses digital tools to explore the dynamic of living in an era of environmental and social uncertainty.
Stu Sontier
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
stu@stusontier.net http://ether.stusontier.net
Selected exhibitions
2022 The Bastards – Post & Experimental Photography – SuperChief Gallery Los Angeles – group show
2022 Levels of Life: Photography, Imaging and the Vertical Perspective – London College of Communication – group show
2022 Circumstantial Evidence – online group exhibition https://circumstantialevidence.biote.net
2022 Presentation Layer: NFT forms, platforms and transference – Ilam Campus Gallery, Christchurch – group show
2021 Collapse: reflecting on a digital sublime – Refinery Gallery, Nelson – solo show
2020 Art in Quarantine – Wreading Digits, Portugal – online group show
2019 Finalists show – 28th Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland – group show
2019 From This One Moment – Hum Salon, Auckland – solo show
2019 SlideShow – Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago – group show
2018 Binary/Non Binary – Geste Paris – shortlist exhibitors
2018 PhotoForum Members Show – 541 Gallery Auckland – group show
2017 Featureshoot group show – Black Eye Gallery, Sydney
2017 ether online ongoing series ether.susontier.net
2000 Update – The Active Eye Group show PhotoForum (online and interactive CD)
1998 Interface PhotoForum members online exhibition (online and VHS installation)
1998 Apparatus Group Show Soliloquy Gallery
1993 – 1994 Other/Lives Touring exhibition in nine Auckland shopping centres
1994 Open The Shutter – Auckland Photographers Now Auckland Museum
1993 The HYDRA Project with Jon Carapiet. Presented initially in Ponsonby Road shop windows, then in Downtown Shopping Centre and the Auckland Public Library.
1993 The first James Wallace Trust Awards Group Exhibition
1991 Threads of Life Touring exhibition for 14 months
Selected publications
2022 Tickle Lit #2 Online digital literature mag
2020 …..and then there were none (with Harvey Benge, Jon Carapiet,
Lloyd Jones, Haru Sameshima): Rim Books
2019 Brush Talks – Vol 4 No 1 online portfolio from work in Pingyao, China link
2019 observer phenomenon – handmade book in an edition of three
1995 Ink and Silver seven New Zealand photographers; two offset printers: PhotoForum
1994 Open The Shutter catalogue
Talks
2009 Talking Culture: Auckland Art Gallery & Art Lounge -Open the Shutter (1994 documentary) with Jon Carapiet
1993 From Magnum to Manukau Auckland City Art Gallery
Writing
2022 Circumstantial Evidence -main essay and artist essays
2022 The Auction House, the Hammer and the NFT – online essay on Webbs first NFT auction, with John B. Turner
2018 PhotoForum Members Show – review
2016 Pingyao Photography Festival review for PhotoForum
1996 Monica, Aug/Sept [Identi-kit – review by Jennifer French & Stuart Sontier, pg 8-9] (ed. Tessa Laird)
Related
1996 – 2016 PhotoForum committee and initiated and managed PhotoForum website
1994 Management committee – Open The Shutter – Auckland Photographers Now Auckland Museum