Exhibitions/Projects timeline

2025 Aug - 2026 Feb Whakahokihoki: Jewellery from the Collection The Dowse Art Museum, Te Awa Kairangi te Kai

2025  April - Sept 2026, Feb He Momo na te whanau - Aotearoa jewellery triennial, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Gallery

2025  Sept- March 2026, He Momo na te whanau - Aotearoa jewellery triennial, Te Manawa Museum, Te Papaioea

2025  March-June, He Momo na te whanau - Aotearoa jewellery triennial Suter Art Gallery, Whakatu
 
2025  May-Nov Sophia Smolenski-OFFERING IT UP, Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui

2025 March-April Familiar in the Foreign: Jewellery from the Southern Hemisphere, Galerie Handwerk Munich, Germany

2025  March-April PARURE, solo show, Season, Tamaki Makaurau

2024 October Golden anniversary group show, Fingers, Tamaki Makaurau

2024  August -september A fast game is a good game, solo show, The National, Otautahi

2024  work collected by Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
          
2023 AOTEAROA art Fair, SEASON, Tamaki Makaurau

2023 SWAMP WITCH exhibitor/co-curator with Katie Pascoe The jewel and the jeweller, Ngamotu

2023  4.1 KAIKAINGA NGĀ TARINGA, SEASON, Tamaki Makaurau

2023  Sophia Smolenski ​- OFFERING IT UP, Te Pataka toi Adam Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara              

2022 Nelson Jewellery Week  Objectspace Panel discussion, Zoe Black,Jade Townsend,Jennifer Laracy,Justine Olsen, 

2022 NMIT Nelson Jewellery Week Workshop tutor

2022 Curation of The jewel and the jeweller group show BUFFET,Whakatu Nelson

2022 August-September Souvenir of a Souvenir II, Fingers Gallery, Tamaki Makaurau

2022 July-Nov Paua: A Contemporary Jewellery Story, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

Nov- Panel discussion A collectors contribution Sian Van Dyk, Wendy Judgeford,Lisa Walker,Garth Obrien,Jennifer laracy
 
RNZ - Interview The Humble Ashtray Sian Van Dyk, Neke Moa and Jennifer Laracy

2022 Oct-Nov WHANUI Handshake Jewellery AlumniThe National, Christchurch

2020 October-December Self Contained residency/exhibition (souviner of a souviner)

2021 March-April Chainreaction 10 year celebration group show The Refinery Nelson

2020 CNZ continuity grant recipient 

2020 September The Bank Room Guest Artist, Patea,Taranaki 

2020 10 March - 31 March 2021 Re-decorating Taranaki Lysaght Watt gallery, Hawera  

2020 18 July - 31 January 2021 Re-decorating Taranaki Lane Gallery, Puke Ariki Museum
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2019 A Jewellers Game, Studio One Toi Tu, Auckland

2019 The Portrait Show Lysaght Watt Gallery, Hawera 

2018 Nov - CNZ research and development grant recipient Travel to Amsterdam, Paris and Munich

2018 London, 22 -28 October:  TE AO HURIHURI  -Ever Changing World Handshake project in collaboration with Dialogue Collective during OCEANIA 2018 at the Crypt gallery, London

2018 14 Sept– 14 Oct JEWELdisplayJEWEL, Pātaka Art + Museum, Toi Gallery. 

2018 7 Sept –21 Oct POLARITY, HS4 at Corban Estate Arts Centre, Tamaki Makaurau

2018 Co-founded the jewel and the jeweller contemporary jewellery workshop, Ngamotu

2018 4-24 April Super Positions Stanley st gallery,Sydney

2018 7-14th March  Handwerksmesse International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany:Iwa: New Zealand Makers

2018 9-29 march Handshake4 process,Toi Poneke Wellington

2018 7 -29 March - Diverse Locals Lysaght Watt Gallery,Hawera

2018 26 feb ‘On The Go’.Te Auaha institute of creativity

2018  Jan 11-  Feb 25, CHAIN REACTION Handshake project  Atta Gallery, Bangkok, 

2017   Oct 19 - Dec 10, leanings Handshake 4, Pah Homestead, Auckland

2017 July- innovation and creativity Semi permanent exhibit Puke Ariki Museum

2017 June -Nov HOMEWORK Taranaki ART, Puke Ariki

2016 AHI KĀ – Keep the fires burning, Pataka exhibit and publication

2017 Badgemaking Workshop Kidzone WOMAD Pukekura Park

2016  aug-collect Quoil wellington

2016 jul-ringshow Quoil Wellington

2016 june-augment Quoil Wellington

2016 aug- Playthings Refinery ArtSpace Nelson 

2016 may-june Winterland  Waiheke community gallery

2016-Badgemaking Workshop kidzone WOMAD Pukekura park

2015-jan-17 feb National jewellery exhibition 

2015 Horizontal heritage, solo show, Quoil 

2015-jan-13 feb Close to the heart Waiheke community gallery

2015-dec exhibit an Publication Artistarjewels Spazio Miameri,Milan,Italy

2014-oct AOTEAROA Quoil gallery Wellington

2014-august Lucire magazine issue 33 Article

2014- jul-10th aug CLUSTERS new contemporary jewellery Toi gallery, Pataka Art + Museum

2014- jul Badgemaking workshop BIG DAY ART Puke Ariki museum Taranaki

2014- jun-24th aug HOME WORK Taranaki Art Now  Puke Ariki museum Taranaki

2013- oct-dec Objective Art Award exhibitor Mangere Arts Centre Auckland                
          
2007- Remember Me LURE Dunedin (group)

2007- Still High and Orbiting Studio 66 Gisborne (group)

2006- Give and Take Exalt Gallery Wellington (group)

2006- Bodies of Work Objectspace Auckland (window)

2006- Jewellery Out of Context world tour (group)
                      Muse Gallery Sydney       
                      MEBG, Halifax, Canada. 
                      CODA, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.    

Profile Object Magazine - Emerging Artist (December 2006)

2005- Bodies Of Work Quoil Wellington (with Bill Hager)

2004- RED Quoil Gallery Wellington (group)

2004- Graduate Metal 9 RMIT Melbourne (group)

2003- Kitschorama Pataka Gallery Porirua (group)



Relevant Training and Experience
 
2018- Present co-founder and owner of The Jewel and the Jeweller gallery/workshop

2017 - 2019 Handshake 4 - mentoring and development programme

2015 - 2018  Creativity tutor - Community  badgemaking workshops

2005 - 2015 - Dairy farmer / Sharemilker - Taranaki

2002 - 2005 Bench hand, Gallery assistant,  Quoil Gallery

2004 -  2005 Jewellery tutor, Te Aro ,Wellington

2002 -  2004 Designer and manufacturer for Ikonika​ ​Design limited

2001 -  Present Practicing Jeweller/ Artist
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2001 - Technical assistant  Whitireia Polytechnic 

2001 -  Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Advanced Diploma in Visual arts Majoring in Fine Metals

1999 - 2000  Whitireia Community Polytechnic​, ​Diploma in Art Craft and Design