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SARAH DUTT

b.1970
Māori (Ngai Tai, Whānau-Ā-Apanui & Ngāti Porou) and Fijian-Indian heritage

McCarthy Gallery has represented Sarah Dutt since 2023.

Sarah is of Māori (Ngai Tai, Whānau-Ā-Apanui & Ngāti Porou) and Fijian-Indian heritage. Her mother is from the East Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand. Her iwi and hapū stretch from Whakatōhea to Te Tairāwhiti. Her father’s ancestry originates in Gonda and Basti in Uttar Pradesh. Her great grandfather immigrated to Fiji during the Girmit in the late 1800’s. Her grandmother was born in Trinidad and immigrated with her family to Fiji in 1906. Sarah’s father Narendra (Rocky) came to Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 1960’s.

Sarah creative practice started in the mid 1990’s. Sarah graduated with a Master’s in Fine Arts with honours, from the Te Toi Hou, Elam School of Fine Arts 2005. Her tutors were Selwyn Muru, Brett Graham, Ani O’Neill and Dante Bonica. She has worked in education since 2003. She taught Rauangi (visual art) at Te Wananga o Aotearoa with Dr Richard Cooper between 2003 to 2007.

Sarah is the New Zealand Curriculum Leader of Social Sciences at Alfriston College, where she has devoted herself to growing great people and the next generation of artists and game changers. Sarah has been part of the team helping to reshape NCEA for level 1 Design and Visual Communication and Level 2 Art History.

Sarah art has centred around identity, girmit and indentured experience within the Indian diaspora in Fiji and the Caribbean and her cultural inheritance. Sarah is also a foundation member of the Kshetra Collective. The first artist and creatives collective of New Zealand artists with Indian heritage.

2023 McCarthy Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia

2023 Invisible Narratives: Contemporary Indian Creatives from Aotearoa, New Zealand Portrait Gallery: Te Pukenga Whakaata, Wellington

2022 Tuurangawaewae: A Place to Stand, Kshetra Collective, Te Taunga Commuinty Hub, Auckland War Memorial Museum: Tamaki Paenga Hira

Diwali Day Celebrations, Auckland War Memorial Museum: Tamaki Paenga Hira

2021 Foundation member of Kshetra Collective

2019 Diwali Day Celebrations, Auckland War Memorial Museum: Tamaki Paenga Hira & Aotea Square

2018 Diwali Day Celebrations, Auckland War Memorial Museum: Tamaki Paenga Hira

2011 Bakers Dozen, Nathan Homestead, Auckland. Group show and fundraiser for Starship.

2009

Kauwae 09: Puanga Kai Rau, Group Show Mangere Arts Centre (2009)
Tara, Solo exhibition of paintings and installations, Mangere Arts Centre. Auckland

2008 Splore 08 Festival, Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland.

2007

Matatini Exhibition, Palmerston North, Nga Puna, Waihanga
Manuland Sculpture Symposium (Hinuera stone), Manukau
Takapuna Lake House, Sculpture Live 2007 Wood Symposium

2006

Masters Research: Ephemeral art practices of women of Indian and Maori descent
Curator & exhibitor, Healing Our Spirits Worldwide, Alberta, Canada
Healing Our Spirits Worldwide, Artstation, Auckland
Hono Kotahitanga Join Together, Uxbridge Gallery, Auckland
Avaia Gallery opening exhibition, Auckland
Splore 06 Festival, Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland

2005

Nga Puna Waihanga, Te Tuhi, The Mark, Auckland
Elam Post-Graduate show, Auckland Airport
Cultural Collision, Nathan Homestead, New Zealand and USA.
Opening Gallery Exhibition, Globe Gallery, Napier.
(Re)settled/(Re)viewed: Recent Expressions of Pacific Identity, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA, USA.
Exchange11: International and National Exchange, East Gallery,
Rueff Galleries Pao Hall, Purdue University, USA.

2004

Diwali exhibition, Artstation, Auckland
Aahua exhibition, Aotea Centre, The Edge
Museum of Rarotonga, Group exhibition, Rarotonga
Masters Graduation Exhibition, Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland

2003

Opening exhibition of Te Wananga O Aotearoa, Manukau Campus, Auckland
Pasifika show, Artstation, Auckland
Make Art Not War, Painting Symposium, the Civic Square, Manukau City
Opening Exhibition of the Buck Nin School of Fine Art. Manukau Campus Auckland

2002

Tautoko exhibition, ASA Gallery, Auckland
Tautai Emerging Artists at Aotea Centre, The Edge
Tautai Sculpture Symposium, QEII Square (Hinuera stone)

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