Artist Statement
Principally utilising text, my practice investigates the ways in which power plays out in the social and political domain in order to muse on possibilities for change. I probe the contemporary world, often focusing on slippages within language in order to open up alternative meanings.
Artworks frequently call up the past in order to engage in both a critique of the present, and a lament for the failure of a future once promised. Drawing, projection and fluorescent light are some of the media utilised to investigate the possibility that an oblique engagement with power relations might trigger new thinking through a strategy of ‘opposition without oppositionality’.
Additionally, I am a member of the art collective Public Share, which combines object making and site exploration with social engagement and critique, with a particular focus on the workplace.
Exhibitions
Still Life, Nikau Superette, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2025
Soar Away, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England, UK, 2025
Stitching Solidarity, Artists for Palestine, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, 2024
Nature, danger, revenge, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 2022
Tomorrow is Today Now, Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, 2022
Twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2022
Made of Steel, Made of Stone, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2021
On My Volcano Grows the Grass, Parasite Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2021
No More the Fruit, RM Gallery and Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2021
Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2019
The Future of Work, TheDowse Art Museum, Wellington, 2019
Hear Me Roar! Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, 2019
How to Live Together, ST PAUL St Gallery, 2019
All that is solid. Auckland Art Fair, 2019
We’re Not Too Big to Care, Gus Fisher Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2019
Are We Not Ready? Te Tuhi Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2018
Hybrid Spring, with Layne Waerea, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, 2018
March Mostra, BSR Gallery, Rome, 2018
Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award Exhibition, Arts Whakatāne Gallery, Whakatāne, 2018
Free Speech, Demo, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2018
Hardly Working, RM Gallery, Auckland, 2017
The 26thWallace Art Awards Exhibition, Pah Homestead, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
The Tomorrow People, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2017
In the Anthropocene, with Anne Noble and Connor Clarke, Bartley + Company, Wellington, 2017
D O W N T I M E, Play_station Gallery, Wellington, 2017
Waiheke Small Sculpture Awards Exhibition, Waiheke Art Gallery, 2017
Intextual, curated by Yvonne Shaw, Projectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
Changing the Subject (Master of Fine Art Degree Exhibition), University of Auckland, 2016
Until You Make It, Projectspace,Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2016
Imago Mundi, Trieste, Italy, 2016
The Drawing Show, Demo, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2016
It Falls Down Easily, George Fraser Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
One’s Own Trade, The Crate, Wynyard Quarter, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
A Little Latitude (No Quarter), Silo6, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
DeSporting, A KIM KIM Gallery (Seoul, Korea) exhibition held at Gallery 3, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
Exhibition One, Artbase, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
New Beginnings are in the Offing, FUZZYVIBES, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
Saloon des Ferrari, Ferrari Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
Weakforce4, artists: Bruce Barber (Canada), Benji Bradley (NZ), Liz Bird (NZ), Anthony Cribb (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Eugene Hansen (NZ), Laresa Kosloff (AU), Lee Ihnbum (South Korea), Kim Morgan (Canada), Matthew Sansom (UK), Daniel von Sturmer (NZ/AU), Andy Thomson (UK/NZ), Layne Waerea (NZ), Suh Youngsun (South Korea), Deborah Rundle (NZ), Joseph Jowitt (NZ), Ziggy Lever (NZ), ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland, 2013
AD13, AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
Final Parlour Show, presented by Rebecca Hobbs, Leilani & Andre Kake and Kahu Tuwhare, participating artists: Darcell Apelu, Kah Bee Chow, Enterprise of Temporary Consensus, Ziggy Lever, Janet Lilo, Sophie McMillan, Ahilapalapa Rands, Deborah Rundle, Sriwhana Spong, John Vea, Naoto Kobayashi, Mai Yamashita,Otahuhu,Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
36 View of Mount Taranaki, curated by Balamohan Shingade, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, 2013
Along the Transect Line, Gallery Three, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
Transforming Topographies, The Lab, 5thAuckland Triennial, participation as individual artist and member of Best BeforeDairy Co-operative, Auckland Art Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
That That Was And Wasn’t, Second Storey, Auckland, 2013
SHOULD LOVE COME FIRST? Curated by Deborah Rundle and Jill Segedin, participating artists: Jo Mears, Sarah Murphy, Alex Plumb, Ponti, Louise Purvis, Deborah Rundle, Ash Spittal, Ahilapalapa Rands and Imogen Taylor, Layne Waerea; Artstation, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
NO MONEY, NO PROBLEMS, 5B Gallery, High St, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2012
BYOB, Snake Pit, Auckland, 2012
Speakeasy, Assembly Project, ST PAUL St Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2012
I’m Here For the Bees, ST PAUL St Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2012
Public Share
I share the collective artist identity Public Share. Public Share engages in ideas of sharing and production, combining object making and site exploration with social engagement and critique, with a particular focus on workplace rituals. Members: Monique Redmond, Harriet Stockman, Deborah Rundle, Kelsey Stankovich, Mark Schroder, Joe Prisk
Public Share art collective, http://publicsharecollective.com
Public Share: Projects/Exhibitions
Housewarming, John A Lee Apartments, Point Chevalier, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2025
Good to Go, as part of A Time of Waiting, Te Wai Ngutu Kākā, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2025
No nSense: An antidote to Individualism, essay in ‘As needed as possible’, collectively written with Public Share, edited by Sophie Davis and Simon Gennard, Enjoy, 2020
Collective Agreement, as a part of The Future of Work, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 2019
OVERTIME, Part 1, Banquet Hall, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, 2018
OVERTIME, Part 2, Civic Square, Wellington, 2018
Public Share Workers Club as part of Social Matter, curated by Louisa Afoa, with Valasi Siuli, Janet Lilo, Lana Lopesi, Sione Monu, RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
Last Run, as part of Heat: Solar Revolutions, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
Notice of Intent, as part of Social Matter at Blue Oyster art project space, Dunedin, 2016.
Out of Office, curated by Zara Stanhope, Part 1, Projectspace/Spare Room Gallery, Melbourne, 2016
Out of Office, Part 2, John Holland construction Eastern Line removal site tearoom, Melbourne, 2016
Conditions Subsequent, as part of Urban Aspirations curated by Vera Mey, Physics Room, Christchurch, 2016
A Right Stirrer, Whau Arts Festival, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
SMOKO, Part 1, Performing Mobilities Symposium, Melbourne, 2015
SMOKO, Part 2, Well Connected Alliance site tearoom, Wiri, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
Carried Forward, St Paul St Gallery Curatorial Symposium, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Art Gallery, 2015
Allotted Breaks Part 2:Irregular Allotments, Fulton Hogan site tearooms, Te Atatu, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
Allotted Breaks Part 1:A Break in Proceedings, Engaging Publics/Public Engagements Symposium, held at Auckland Art Gallery, 2014
Published Writing
Hope Finds a Friend in the Future, essay in Working Together: A Parliament of Fog, Layne Waerea, edited by Sophie Davis, 2025
No nSense: An antidote to Individualism, essay in ‘As needed as possible’, collectively written with Public Share, edited by Sophie Davis and Simon Gennard, Enjoy, 2020
Left in Rome, Art News New Zealand, Winter, 2018
A Singular Plural, Catalogue text, Weakforce4, published by Split/fountain, 2016
A Move towards Horizontal Production, U / F / T, http://www.uft-gravity.com/ACollaborativeVisualArtsProject/Essays/KSOIKGroupCaravanLetter.aspx
Site Unseen, Catalogue text, published by Lopdell House Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition, Site Unseenby Veronica Herber at Lopdell House Gallery, 2013
System, catalogue text, published by Bath St Gallery, Auckland & Bowen Galleries, Wellington for the exhibition, System by Louise Purvis at Bath St, 2011
Bibliography
Pickens, Robyn Marie, Robyn Marie Pickens responds to Tomorrow is Today Now: /ɪˈməːdʒ(ə)nsi/ /ɪˈməːdʒ/, 2022, https://blueoyster.org.nz/writing/writing/mdnsi-md/
Bragg, Jo, Effervescent Dynamism/Desire and the Work of Deborah Rundle, The Art Paper and jobragg.space, 2021
https://www.the-art-paper.com/journal/jo-bragg-on-deborah-rundle
Deborah Rundle in Conversation with Daniel John Corbett Sanders, The Art Paper, 2021, https://www.the-art-paper.com/deborah-rundle-in-conversation-with-daniel-john-corbett-sanders/
Hoxha, Ardit, A Labour of Love, 2021, https://rm.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/A-Labour-of-Love.pdf
Rākete, Emilie, Madness and Class Struggle in the Onset of Climate Change, 2019, http://enjoy.org.nz/publishing/exhibition-essays/hybrid-spring/madness-and-class-struggle-in-the-onset-of-climate#article
Robinson, Hugo, The future remains here insofar as it will never come, 2017, http://enjoy.org.nz/publishing/exhibition-essays/hybrid-spring/the-future-remains-here-insofar-as-it-will-never-c
Kari Smidt, Exhibition Guide, The Tomorrow People, 2017, http://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AAG_Exhibition-Booklet-1Aug_Singlepages.pdf
Robinson, Hugo, DOWN TIME: Labour politics, subjectivity and counter-production, 2017.
http://enjoy.org.nz/blog/2017/07/down-time-labour-politics-subjectivity-and-counter
Taylor, Lachlan, In the Anthropocene, exhibition essay, 2017. http://www.bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz/exhibition,Conor_Clarke,_Anne_Noble,_Deborah_Rundle,310
Shaw, Yvonne, Intextual, Intextual catalogue essay, 2017.
Phipps, Jacqui, Sounding Brass and Tinkling Cymbals, SHOULD LOVE COME FIRST? catalogue essay, 2013
Reviews
Hanfling, Edward, Tomorrow is Today Now, Art New Zealand, Spring, 2022
Paine, Ralph, A Very Precise Kind of Rhythym, Art and Australia, 2019
http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/disruptions/very-precise-kind-rhythm
Lekamge, Diohana, Not All Knowledge is Yours to Share, Pantograph Punch, 2019 https://www.pantograph-punch.com/post/review-How-To-Live-Together
Hurrell, John, Paean to Gramsci, EyeContact, 2019, http://www.eyecontactsite.com/2019/01/paean-to-gramsci
Don Abbott, Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Awards, Art New Zealand, Winter, 2018
Chloe Geoghegan, Murmurings and Millennials: A Review of the Tomorrow People, Pantograph Punch, 2017, http://pantograph-punch.com/post/review-tomorrow-people
Amery, Mark, Unauthorised Tours, http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/columns/mark-amery-visual-arts/2014/sep/147510-unauthorised-tours
Lomas, Julia, A Slow Burn Zone – Lingering impressions of the final Parlour show, Circuit, 2013.
http://circuit.org.nz/blog/a-slow-burn-zone-%E2%80%93-lingering-impressions-of-the-final-parlour-show
T J McNamara, Making a Head Start, New Zealand Herald, 1 February, 2014
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11195450
Hurrel, John, Identity and ‘Alternative’ Love, Eyecontact, March 2013
http://eyecontactsite.com/2013/03/identity-and-alternative-love
P J MacBridges, Should Love Come First? http://nzartarena.com/2013/03/03/should-love-come-first/
Competitions/Awards
Winner, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Te Tuhi UK Residency Award, 2020/2022
Winner, Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, 2018 see: http://www.mollymorpethcanaday.co.nz/3d-award-winners.html
Winner, British School at Rome Residency, January-March, 2018
Finalist, Waiheke Small Sculpture Awards, 2017
Joint Runner Up, Iris Fisher Award, Te Tuhi, 2016
Best of New Graduates Show, Corbans Estate Art Gallery, 2014
Shortlisted for John Fries Award, Australia, 2016
Finalist, Eden Arts Art School Awards, Auckland, 2011
Education
Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), University of Auckland, 2017
Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (with distinction), AUT University, 2013
Bachelor of Visual Arts (with distinction), AUT University, 2011
Bachelor of Arts (History and Sociology), University of Auckland
Other
A Time for Change in the Arts, panel discussion with Lisa Reihana, Ane Tonga and Scott Lawrie, hosted by Claire Ulenberg for Creative Matakana at Brick Bay, Matakana, 2021
Taking Back Tomorrow, member of panel discussion hosted by Lana Lopesi, with Balamohan Shingade, Fiona Jack and Courtney Johnston as part of a series devised by Christina Barton, Director of Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka, Auckland Art Fair, 2019
No Common Ground, Symposium speaker, co-organised by Adam Art Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum, and Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 2018
Co-Director of RM: artist run gallery, project office and archive, Auckland, 2017-2022
Principally utilising text, my practice investigates the ways in which power plays out in the social and political domain in order to muse on possibilities for change. I probe the contemporary world, often focusing on slippages within language in order to open up alternative meanings.
Artworks frequently call up the past in order to engage in both a critique of the present, and a lament for the failure of a future once promised. Drawing, projection and fluorescent light are some of the media utilised to investigate the possibility that an oblique engagement with power relations might trigger new thinking through a strategy of ‘opposition without oppositionality’.
Additionally, I am a member of the art collective Public Share, which combines object making and site exploration with social engagement and critique, with a particular focus on the workplace.
Exhibitions
Still Life, Nikau Superette, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2025
Soar Away, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England, UK, 2025
Stitching Solidarity, Artists for Palestine, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, 2024
Nature, danger, revenge, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 2022
Tomorrow is Today Now, Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, 2022
Twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2022
Made of Steel, Made of Stone, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2021
On My Volcano Grows the Grass, Parasite Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2021
No More the Fruit, RM Gallery and Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2021
Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2019
The Future of Work, TheDowse Art Museum, Wellington, 2019
Hear Me Roar! Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, 2019
How to Live Together, ST PAUL St Gallery, 2019
All that is solid. Auckland Art Fair, 2019
We’re Not Too Big to Care, Gus Fisher Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2019
Are We Not Ready? Te Tuhi Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2018
Hybrid Spring, with Layne Waerea, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, 2018
March Mostra, BSR Gallery, Rome, 2018
Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award Exhibition, Arts Whakatāne Gallery, Whakatāne, 2018
Free Speech, Demo, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2018
Hardly Working, RM Gallery, Auckland, 2017
The 26thWallace Art Awards Exhibition, Pah Homestead, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
The Tomorrow People, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2017
In the Anthropocene, with Anne Noble and Connor Clarke, Bartley + Company, Wellington, 2017
D O W N T I M E, Play_station Gallery, Wellington, 2017
Waiheke Small Sculpture Awards Exhibition, Waiheke Art Gallery, 2017
Intextual, curated by Yvonne Shaw, Projectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
Changing the Subject (Master of Fine Art Degree Exhibition), University of Auckland, 2016
Until You Make It, Projectspace,Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2016
Imago Mundi, Trieste, Italy, 2016
The Drawing Show, Demo, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2016
It Falls Down Easily, George Fraser Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
One’s Own Trade, The Crate, Wynyard Quarter, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
A Little Latitude (No Quarter), Silo6, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
DeSporting, A KIM KIM Gallery (Seoul, Korea) exhibition held at Gallery 3, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
Exhibition One, Artbase, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
New Beginnings are in the Offing, FUZZYVIBES, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
Saloon des Ferrari, Ferrari Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
Weakforce4, artists: Bruce Barber (Canada), Benji Bradley (NZ), Liz Bird (NZ), Anthony Cribb (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Eugene Hansen (NZ), Laresa Kosloff (AU), Lee Ihnbum (South Korea), Kim Morgan (Canada), Matthew Sansom (UK), Daniel von Sturmer (NZ/AU), Andy Thomson (UK/NZ), Layne Waerea (NZ), Suh Youngsun (South Korea), Deborah Rundle (NZ), Joseph Jowitt (NZ), Ziggy Lever (NZ), ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland, 2013
AD13, AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
Final Parlour Show, presented by Rebecca Hobbs, Leilani & Andre Kake and Kahu Tuwhare, participating artists: Darcell Apelu, Kah Bee Chow, Enterprise of Temporary Consensus, Ziggy Lever, Janet Lilo, Sophie McMillan, Ahilapalapa Rands, Deborah Rundle, Sriwhana Spong, John Vea, Naoto Kobayashi, Mai Yamashita,Otahuhu,Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
36 View of Mount Taranaki, curated by Balamohan Shingade, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, 2013
Along the Transect Line, Gallery Three, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
Transforming Topographies, The Lab, 5thAuckland Triennial, participation as individual artist and member of Best BeforeDairy Co-operative, Auckland Art Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
That That Was And Wasn’t, Second Storey, Auckland, 2013
SHOULD LOVE COME FIRST? Curated by Deborah Rundle and Jill Segedin, participating artists: Jo Mears, Sarah Murphy, Alex Plumb, Ponti, Louise Purvis, Deborah Rundle, Ash Spittal, Ahilapalapa Rands and Imogen Taylor, Layne Waerea; Artstation, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2013
NO MONEY, NO PROBLEMS, 5B Gallery, High St, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2012
BYOB, Snake Pit, Auckland, 2012
Speakeasy, Assembly Project, ST PAUL St Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2012
I’m Here For the Bees, ST PAUL St Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2012
Public Share
I share the collective artist identity Public Share. Public Share engages in ideas of sharing and production, combining object making and site exploration with social engagement and critique, with a particular focus on workplace rituals. Members: Monique Redmond, Harriet Stockman, Deborah Rundle, Kelsey Stankovich, Mark Schroder, Joe Prisk
Public Share art collective, http://publicsharecollective.com
Public Share: Projects/Exhibitions
Housewarming, John A Lee Apartments, Point Chevalier, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2025
Good to Go, as part of A Time of Waiting, Te Wai Ngutu Kākā, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2025
No nSense: An antidote to Individualism, essay in ‘As needed as possible’, collectively written with Public Share, edited by Sophie Davis and Simon Gennard, Enjoy, 2020
Collective Agreement, as a part of The Future of Work, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 2019
OVERTIME, Part 1, Banquet Hall, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, 2018
OVERTIME, Part 2, Civic Square, Wellington, 2018
Public Share Workers Club as part of Social Matter, curated by Louisa Afoa, with Valasi Siuli, Janet Lilo, Lana Lopesi, Sione Monu, RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
Last Run, as part of Heat: Solar Revolutions, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
Notice of Intent, as part of Social Matter at Blue Oyster art project space, Dunedin, 2016.
Out of Office, curated by Zara Stanhope, Part 1, Projectspace/Spare Room Gallery, Melbourne, 2016
Out of Office, Part 2, John Holland construction Eastern Line removal site tearoom, Melbourne, 2016
Conditions Subsequent, as part of Urban Aspirations curated by Vera Mey, Physics Room, Christchurch, 2016
A Right Stirrer, Whau Arts Festival, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
SMOKO, Part 1, Performing Mobilities Symposium, Melbourne, 2015
SMOKO, Part 2, Well Connected Alliance site tearoom, Wiri, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2015
Carried Forward, St Paul St Gallery Curatorial Symposium, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Art Gallery, 2015
Allotted Breaks Part 2:Irregular Allotments, Fulton Hogan site tearooms, Te Atatu, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2014
Allotted Breaks Part 1:A Break in Proceedings, Engaging Publics/Public Engagements Symposium, held at Auckland Art Gallery, 2014
Published Writing
Hope Finds a Friend in the Future, essay in Working Together: A Parliament of Fog, Layne Waerea, edited by Sophie Davis, 2025
No nSense: An antidote to Individualism, essay in ‘As needed as possible’, collectively written with Public Share, edited by Sophie Davis and Simon Gennard, Enjoy, 2020
Left in Rome, Art News New Zealand, Winter, 2018
A Singular Plural, Catalogue text, Weakforce4, published by Split/fountain, 2016
A Move towards Horizontal Production, U / F / T, http://www.uft-gravity.com/ACollaborativeVisualArtsProject/Essays/KSOIKGroupCaravanLetter.aspx
Site Unseen, Catalogue text, published by Lopdell House Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition, Site Unseenby Veronica Herber at Lopdell House Gallery, 2013
System, catalogue text, published by Bath St Gallery, Auckland & Bowen Galleries, Wellington for the exhibition, System by Louise Purvis at Bath St, 2011
Bibliography
Pickens, Robyn Marie, Robyn Marie Pickens responds to Tomorrow is Today Now: /ɪˈməːdʒ(ə)nsi/ /ɪˈməːdʒ/, 2022, https://blueoyster.org.nz/writing/writing/mdnsi-md/
Bragg, Jo, Effervescent Dynamism/Desire and the Work of Deborah Rundle, The Art Paper and jobragg.space, 2021
https://www.the-art-paper.com/journal/jo-bragg-on-deborah-rundle
Deborah Rundle in Conversation with Daniel John Corbett Sanders, The Art Paper, 2021, https://www.the-art-paper.com/deborah-rundle-in-conversation-with-daniel-john-corbett-sanders/
Hoxha, Ardit, A Labour of Love, 2021, https://rm.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/A-Labour-of-Love.pdf
Rākete, Emilie, Madness and Class Struggle in the Onset of Climate Change, 2019, http://enjoy.org.nz/publishing/exhibition-essays/hybrid-spring/madness-and-class-struggle-in-the-onset-of-climate#article
Robinson, Hugo, The future remains here insofar as it will never come, 2017, http://enjoy.org.nz/publishing/exhibition-essays/hybrid-spring/the-future-remains-here-insofar-as-it-will-never-c
Kari Smidt, Exhibition Guide, The Tomorrow People, 2017, http://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AAG_Exhibition-Booklet-1Aug_Singlepages.pdf
Robinson, Hugo, DOWN TIME: Labour politics, subjectivity and counter-production, 2017.
http://enjoy.org.nz/blog/2017/07/down-time-labour-politics-subjectivity-and-counter
Taylor, Lachlan, In the Anthropocene, exhibition essay, 2017. http://www.bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz/exhibition,Conor_Clarke,_Anne_Noble,_Deborah_Rundle,310
Shaw, Yvonne, Intextual, Intextual catalogue essay, 2017.
Phipps, Jacqui, Sounding Brass and Tinkling Cymbals, SHOULD LOVE COME FIRST? catalogue essay, 2013
Reviews
Hanfling, Edward, Tomorrow is Today Now, Art New Zealand, Spring, 2022
Paine, Ralph, A Very Precise Kind of Rhythym, Art and Australia, 2019
http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/disruptions/very-precise-kind-rhythm
Lekamge, Diohana, Not All Knowledge is Yours to Share, Pantograph Punch, 2019 https://www.pantograph-punch.com/post/review-How-To-Live-Together
Hurrell, John, Paean to Gramsci, EyeContact, 2019, http://www.eyecontactsite.com/2019/01/paean-to-gramsci
Don Abbott, Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Awards, Art New Zealand, Winter, 2018
Chloe Geoghegan, Murmurings and Millennials: A Review of the Tomorrow People, Pantograph Punch, 2017, http://pantograph-punch.com/post/review-tomorrow-people
Amery, Mark, Unauthorised Tours, http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/columns/mark-amery-visual-arts/2014/sep/147510-unauthorised-tours
Lomas, Julia, A Slow Burn Zone – Lingering impressions of the final Parlour show, Circuit, 2013.
http://circuit.org.nz/blog/a-slow-burn-zone-%E2%80%93-lingering-impressions-of-the-final-parlour-show
T J McNamara, Making a Head Start, New Zealand Herald, 1 February, 2014
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11195450
Hurrel, John, Identity and ‘Alternative’ Love, Eyecontact, March 2013
http://eyecontactsite.com/2013/03/identity-and-alternative-love
P J MacBridges, Should Love Come First? http://nzartarena.com/2013/03/03/should-love-come-first/
Competitions/Awards
Winner, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Te Tuhi UK Residency Award, 2020/2022
Winner, Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, 2018 see: http://www.mollymorpethcanaday.co.nz/3d-award-winners.html
Winner, British School at Rome Residency, January-March, 2018
Finalist, Waiheke Small Sculpture Awards, 2017
Joint Runner Up, Iris Fisher Award, Te Tuhi, 2016
Best of New Graduates Show, Corbans Estate Art Gallery, 2014
Shortlisted for John Fries Award, Australia, 2016
Finalist, Eden Arts Art School Awards, Auckland, 2011
Education
Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), University of Auckland, 2017
Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (with distinction), AUT University, 2013
Bachelor of Visual Arts (with distinction), AUT University, 2011
Bachelor of Arts (History and Sociology), University of Auckland
Other
A Time for Change in the Arts, panel discussion with Lisa Reihana, Ane Tonga and Scott Lawrie, hosted by Claire Ulenberg for Creative Matakana at Brick Bay, Matakana, 2021
Taking Back Tomorrow, member of panel discussion hosted by Lana Lopesi, with Balamohan Shingade, Fiona Jack and Courtney Johnston as part of a series devised by Christina Barton, Director of Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka, Auckland Art Fair, 2019
No Common Ground, Symposium speaker, co-organised by Adam Art Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum, and Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 2018
Co-Director of RM: artist run gallery, project office and archive, Auckland, 2017-2022