I am still feeling the way within the plurality of my Welsh-Pākehā identity and the mesh of art/life, and I have always been drawn to objects that connect me to the world.

Dawn Wilce (Welsh, Pākehā) is a contemporary artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

Her contemporary art practice has evolved to sit between contemporary jewellery and site-responsive installation, creating a constellation of material interventions that inhabit the space between adornment and infrastructure, offering and fixing, sacred and industrial. Her practice fosters encounters that are intimate, disorienting, and attuned to the layered histories that linger in our collective memory. Wilce treats the gallery itself as a collaborator—not merely a backdrop—inviting viewers to look closely and question what is seen, what is overlooked, and how we locate ourselves.

Wilce holds a Certificate in Visual Arts and Graduate Diploma Fine Arts with Distinction from Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington. She is currently in the thesis year of the Master of Fine Arts.

Awards:

2024 Prime Minister’s Scholarship Latin America

2024 Graduate Woman Manawatu Postgraduate Scholarship

Exhibitions:

2025

Floración de Corazón: A Karanga to Mexico. Massey University The Engine Room. 15-25/9/23

2023

Office Party. play_station. 14-16/12/23

Impermanent. Massey University The Engine Room. 15-25/9/23

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