Rebekah Farr
New Zealand Artist
Biography
When I was 19, my passion for art and design took me to Australia to complete a degree in Fashion Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. I graduated and worked for two years doing Computer Aided Design for fashion, where I became fascinated by the possibilities of digital media.
I returned to university for a Post Graduate diploma in Animation and Interactive Media, which built upon my art skills with a greater sense of narrative and animation. I then co-founded Nectarine, a Melbourne-based interactive design studio, and was director for over a decade. We now run a smaller version of Nectarine from our home office in Carterton.
Six years ago I returned to NZ with my partner and kids. We now live in Carterton in the Wairarapa, and I’ve begun to rediscover my love of traditional art.
Shape and texture are an important part of my artwork whatever medium I’m working in. Currently the themes in my artwork revolve around my life in the Wairarapa.
Recent work
‘Entitled One’ was selected as a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday 2011 Art Award.
This painting is one of a pair of portraits of my children using their own artwork as an envrionment to paint them in.
In 2010, Keep Carterton Beautiful asked me to create a mural for Carterton School on Holloway St in Carteron.
