Sonja Drake
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    • Waiheke Walker and Hall Art Award
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    • Casting On, Casting Off
    • This Place - Responses
    • As Above, So Below
    • A Journey Beneath the Surface
    • Ecotones
    • Hyporheic Zone
    • Infinity Mesh
    • Ferric Coruscation
    • Circle
    • Taking a Bearing
    • Wild Places
    • Surface Tension
    • Selected Earlier Works
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Qualifications
2021   Master of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe Art School, Auckland, 2021
1986   Bachelor of Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, 1986
2024  Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary)   


Solo Exhibitions
2024.  This Place- Responses (installation), Franklin Centre, Pukekohe
2022    
Ecotones (Encore), Angela Morton Room, Takapuna Library
2021    Ecotones, Angela Morton Room, Takapuna Library
2019    Infinity Mesh, Railway Street Gallery 

2018    Ferric Coruscation, Railway Street Gallery
2016    Taking A Bearing, NorthArt Gallery
2015    Wild Places, Railway Street Gallery
2014    Surface Tension, Railway Street Gallery 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025   NZPPA, New Zealand Painting & Printmaking Award finalist, WSA 
2024   
Premier Award Winner, Walker and Hall Art Awards, Waiheke Art Gallery
2023.  Fluidity, 2 person show, Railway Street Gallery, Newmarket
2023   Casting On, Casting Off, Becroft Gallery, Lake House, Takapuna
2023.  Fertile Ground, DEMO,3 Water Street, Grafton
2023  This Place, The Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre
2022.  Wayfinding, 
DEMO, 3 Water St, Grafton
2022.  As Above, So Below, Railway Street Gallery
2020  This Situation, DEMO, 215 Karangahape Road, Auckland

2019   Pocket Edition, NorthArt
2019   Six Mid Career Artists, NorthArt
2017   Circle, Railway Street Gallery
2017    From The Rivers to the Shore, Arts in Oxford, Depot Artspace & No.1 Parnell, Rawene                                      
2017    White Nights, NorthArt
2017    Cocoon, Kereru Gallery, Mapua
2015   Pocket Edition, NorthArt
2014   NZ Sculpture On the Shore, Gallery
2014    Nature Notes, North Art
2013   Pocket Edition NorthArt
2012   Arts in the Centre, CEAC 10y Commemorative Art Competition finalist 
2010  Artspaces 1, MAC
2010   Large Contemporary Abstracts, MAC 2010

Awards
2025   Finalist, NZPPA, New Zealand Painting & Printmaking Award, WSA 
2024   Premier Winner, Walker and Hall Art Award, Waiheke Art Gallery
​2024.  Winner, Emerging Artists Award, Members Exhibition, Lake House Arts
2019   Overall Winner of the Kumeu Art Awards. 

2019   Winner, 2nd place, The Trusts Greater Auckland Art Awards.
2018   Winner, Trustees Award, Riley Consultants Members Merit Awards, Lake House Arts.
2018   Finalist, Aspiring Art Award.
2017   Finalist, Arts Gold National Biennial Art Awards.
2017   Finalist, ILT National Art Awards.

2016   Winner, People's Choice Award, Estuary Art and Ecology Award.
2015   Finalist, Estuary Art and Ecology Award.
2015   Winner of the Browne School of Art Prize.
2015   Winner, Merit Award, MAC Painting.
2015   Winner of Moana-Our Ocean, MAC
2014   Finalist, Estuary Art and Ecology Award.
2014   Winner of the People’s Choice Award, TCAC Emerging Artist Awards.
2014   Finalist, Waikato River Art Awards.
2014   Finalist, TCAC Emerging Artist Award

2012   Finalist  TCAC Emerging Artist Awards
2011   Winner, Peoples Choice Award, TCAC Emerging Artists Award

Grants
2023  Franklin Local Board Community Arts Grant, This Place, Responses exhibition

Professional Development
2022  Wayfind Creative artists mentoring programme 

2018   Max Gimblett, Sumi Ink Drawing Workshop, AUT.
2016.  Visual Arts Mentoring Programme​, Browne School of Art.
2015   
Professional Practice Level 4, Browne School of Art.
2012   AMP Arts Mentoring Program, Corban Estate Arts Centre.
1988   AUT, Textile Printing and Design

Community Project
2011   School Mural Project with students at Mairangi Bay School, 2011 

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  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • Waiheke Walker and Hall Art Award
    • Fluidity
    • Casting On, Casting Off
    • This Place - Responses
    • As Above, So Below
    • A Journey Beneath the Surface
    • Ecotones
    • Hyporheic Zone
    • Infinity Mesh
    • Ferric Coruscation
    • Circle
    • Taking a Bearing
    • Wild Places
    • Surface Tension
    • Selected Earlier Works
  • About
  • News
  • PRESS
  • CV
  • Contact