Dawn Wilce (Welsh, Pākehā) is a contemporary artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Her practice sits at the intersection of contemporary jewellery and site-responsive installation, forming quiet material interventions that inhabit the space between adornment and infrastructure, offering and anchoring, sacred and industrial.

Working with modest gestures and conditional arrangements, Wilce creates encounters that are intimate, disorienting, and attuned to the layered histories embedded in everyday places. She treats the gallery and the site itself as collaborators—active participants that shape how materials settle, shift, and speak. Her work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and notice what is often overlooked: the textures, residues, and atmospheres that reveal how we locate ourselves within place.

Wilce holds a Master of Fine Arts with First Class Honours from Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University, where she also completed a Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts with Distinction and a Certificate in Visual Arts.

Awards:

2024 Prime Minister’s Scholarship Latin America

2024 Graduate Woman Manawatu Postgraduate Scholarship

Exhibitions:

2026

Almost Settled. Car park site, off King Street, Wellington. 11-12 February 2026

2025

Floración de Corazón: A Karanga to Mexico. The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington. 9-19 September 2025

2023

Office Party. play_station. 14-16 December 2023

Impermanent. The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington. 15-25 September 2023

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