About Ekarasa

Ekarasa Doblanovic is based in New Zealand, Auckland and is currently undertaking her Master Degree in Visual Arts at Auckland University of Technology. Her creative practice encompasses painting and a co-authored participatory installation project titled Imagine the Land. A participatory work by Imagine the Land was recently featured in a presentation and publication hosted by The Louvre for the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto for his collaborative project Year 1, Paradise on Earth.
Ekarasa’s works embody a strong sense materiality in which the tactile and haptic quality of colour and organic earth materials highten the sensation and affect of colour, but also investigates the collaborative and the participatory means where notions of space, impermanence and human interactions are explored with the aim to create an empathetic interaction between people art and nature.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:
2014-"Chroma", St Paul St Gallery Three. AUT Auckland, New Zealand
2012- Wallace Morrinsville Gallery, New Zealand
2012- "Nelson Rhythms" Evolve Festival, Nelson NZ
2011- "Death and Diversity" Museum of City and Sea, Wellington NZ
2007-Small Dog Gallery, Devonport Auckland, New Zealand
1999-Photo Art Gallery "Batana", Rovinj, Croatia
1996-Gallery "Ronz" Roc, Croatia

Collaborative exhibitions:
2014- AUT Grad Show, St Paul st Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2014- Glaistor Ennor MA Graduate Award Exhibition, Sanderson Gallery, Auckland , New Zealand
2013-14 Woodford Folk Festival, Rebirth Day Project and Imagine the Land Project, Australia
2013- La Rosa Park, Imagine The Land Project, Auckland NZ
2013- " Trasforming Topographies" Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery NZ
2013- "Lines in the Sand" Artist Residency, Imagine the land Project Strandbroke Ireland AU
2013-" What Lies beneath" Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland NZ
2012-’Global Elders Gathering" Cairns, Australia
2012-"Morrinsville Arts Festival", Wallace Morrinsville Gallery, NZ
2011-" Sky Above, earth Below", Waitakaruru Sculpture Park, Hamilton NZ
2011-"Kaipara Rhytms"Kaipara Sculpture Park, Auckland NZ
2011- Wallace Art Gallery, Morrinsville Art Festival
2011-"E-Scape"waitakaruru Sculpture Park, Hamilton NZ
2010-Boat shed Club, Pacifica Grandmothers Council, Auckland NZ
2010-TINA art festival, Newcastle,Australia
2010-Raglan Wharf Art Project NZ
2010-Unfolding, Raglan NZ
2009-Weaving the Circle, The Fringe Festival, Wellington, NZ
2008-Ethnicity, Upstairs Gallery, Titirangi, NZ
2003-Art Museum, Mundial Photofestival, Rovinj, Croatia
2001-Art Museum, Mundial Photofestival, Rovinj, Croatia
2000-Art Museum, Mundial Photofestival,Rovinj, Croatia
1998-Gallery San Tommaso with Association "Block" Rovinj, Croatia
1998-Saloon of Photography, Osijek, Croatia
1996-International of Photography F.K. Maribor, Slovenija
1996-International of Photography, Pieve di Soligo (Treviso), Italy

Funded Projects:
2013- Auckland Council , La Rosa Park
2012- Creative Communities Nelson
2011-Enviromental and Sustainability Fund, Auckland Unitec
2010- Creative Communities Waikato
2009- Kokano Funding (CNZ), Wellington Fringe Festival

Publications
2013- Michelangelo Pistoletto. “Année 1, la paradis sur terre” Published by Musee de Louvre .

Collections
Sir James Wallace Collection, New Zealand