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)