TUI HOBSON

ART AWARDS & ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2025 Creative NZ Pātaka Aniva Residency Porirua

2018 Le Quesnoy France - Designed and carved seats for the Rangimarie Memorial Garden

2008 Artist in Residence – Taiwan

2007 Lake House Wood Sculpture Symposium Award

2004 Martin & Hughes Contemporary Pacific Art Award NZ – Travel Grant

PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS

2025 Vairaka Carved pou for Pātaka Art Museum Atrium

2024 Commission for carved pou in gardens of Tāmaki Makaurau Rehabilitation Centre

2018 Le Quesnoy France - Rangimarie Memorial Garden seats

2009 North Shore - Lake House Arts “The Traveller”

2008 Taiwan - Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum “Vaka to the Stars”

2008 Mangere Bridge School “Fale Project”

2007 North Shore - Bus Terminal “Reclining Form”

2006 Auckland City Council “Wahine Warrior”

2005 Kell Park Albany “Kava Chair”

2004 Tokoroa Town Centre “Pacific Memories”

EXHIBITION HISTORY

2026 8 (Contemporary) Cook Islands Artists Mangere Arts Centre

2025 Finalist National Contemporary Art Award Waikato Museum and Gallery

2025 Va’ine Warrior Sculpture and Carvings Exhibition - Charlotte Museum, Auckland

2024 250 Gallery Ponsonby

2023 Auckland Home Show

2023 Pop Up exhibition Mackelvie St Ponsonby

2022 Exhibition of new work Ponsonby Central Auckland

2019-2024 Private commissions Auckland

2017 Vaka table commission Wellington

2016 Art Week exhibition Tapa and Tiare with Sam Ford

2014-2016 Private commissions, Travelling overseas

2013 Pacific motif design of exterior panels on Herne Bay home

2013 Lakehouse Wood Sculpture Symposium - Auckland

2012 “Art in the Woolshed” - Tawharanui

2011 Sculpture in the Gardens, Botanic Gardens - Auckland

2011 Kings College Art Exhibition - Auckland

2011 Lakehouse Wood Sculpture Symposium -Auckland

2011 Pacific Currents Waiheke Island Art Gallery

2010 Kings College Art Exhibition - Auckland

2010 Dunbar Sloane Art Exhibition - Auckland

2010 Braveheart Youth Trust Art Exhibition - Auckland

2010 “Circular Exhibition” - Artstation - Ponsonby Auckland

2010 “Art in the Woolshed” – Tawharanui

2009 “Stoneleigh Sculpture In The Gardens” Auckland Botanic Gardens

2009 “Eye For Sculpture” Clevedon - Auckland

2009 “Art Out There” - Waiheke Island

2009 Kings College Art Exhibition - Auckland

2009 “Pacific-5Women5Journeys” Exhibitions Gallery of Fine Arts – Wgt

2009 “Matariki” Solo Exhibition Lakehouse Gallery - Takapuna

2009 Lakehouse Wood Sculpture Symposium –Takapuna

2009 “Shades of Summer” Group Exhibition Woolshed Gallery - Matakana

2008 Oar Exhibition – Waiheke Island Art Gallery

2008 “Glass Forest” Shared Exhibition Remuera Gallery – Auckland

2008 Solo Exhibition McCarthy Gallery - Parnell

2008 “Art in the Woolshed” - Tawharanui

2008 “Flat White, Black Pearl” Exhibition – Auckland City

2008 Lake House Outdoor Exhibition – Takapuna Auckland

2008 Matakana Stone Symposium - Matakana

2007 “Art in the Garden” - Waiheke Island

2007 Kings College Fund Raiser Exhibition - Auckland

2007 “Art Out There” Group Exhibition – Waiheke Island

2007 “An Eye For Sculpture” Ellerslie Flower Show Grp Exhibition – Auckland

2007 Solo Exhibition “Explorer” Remuera Gallery – Auckland

2007 Marlborough Sounds Artist Retreat – Marlborough Sounds Sth Island

2007 Wood Sculpture Live Symposium Lake House – Takapuna Auckland

2007 “Sculpture In The Country” – Carterton

2007 Morgan St Gallery Rainbow Youth Grp Exhibition – Auckland

2006 “An Eye for Sculpture” Ellerslie Flower Show Group Exhibition -Auckland

2006 “Art Out There” Group Exhibition – Waiheke Island

2006 Sculpture Onshore Women’s Refuge Exhibition - Auckland

2006 “Art in the Woolshed” – Tawharanui

2006 Inter Islands Exhibition – Waiheke Island Art Gallery

2006 “Rock the Stone” Symposium – Albany

2006 Waitakaruru Sculpture Park Symposium – Cambridge

2006 “Elemental Alchemy” Sculpture Symposium - Matakana

2005 Landsendt Garden Exhibition – Oratia

2005 “Kiwi Garden” Xanthe White - Ellerslie Flower Show – Auckland

2005 “Wahine Ma” Te Taumata Art Gallery – Auckland

2005 Lake House Sculpture Symposium – Auckland

2005 Kumeu Vineyard Sculpture Exhibition – Kumeu

2005 AK05 Tautai Trust Symposium – Auckland

2005 Sculpture on the Gulf – Waiheke

2005 “Elemental Alchemy” Sculpture Symposium – Matakana

2004 Waikato Home Show – Hamilton

2004 Sculpture Onshore Women’s Refuge Exhibition – Auckland

2004 Bloomingdale Arts Trail – Clevedon

2004 “Niu Dialogue” Tautai Artists’ Exhibition - Aotea Centre – Auckland

2004 “Talking Pole”s Symposium - Tokoroa

2004 “Art in the Woolshed” – Tawharanui

2004 “Rock the Stone” Symposium – Albany

2003 Landsendt Garden Exhibition – Oratia

2003 “Art in the Park” Exhibition – Omaha

2003 Tautai Sculpture Symposium – Auckland Festival

2003 Sculpture and Painting Exhibition – Waitakere

2003 Spiral Gallery Group Exhibition – Auckland

2003 Matariki Exhibition Artstation – Auckland

2003 “Mana Wahine” Arts Symposium – Waiheke

2003 Lake House Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition – Auckland

1998 Academy of Fine Arts Group Exhibition – Wellington

1997 Grp Exhibition Inverlochy Art Studio – Wellington

1996 Objekt Gallery - Wellington

1995 Solo Exhibition Leeches Gallery – Wellington

1995 Solo Exhibition City Limits Café – Wellington

TRAINING

1995 Foundation in Photography – Wellington Polytechnic

SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP

2004 – 2007 Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust Board Member -Auckland

1999 - 2002 Bakehouse Gallery co-operative – Wellington