Artistic Approach:

I am a full time practicing artist using various mediums and techniques, including graphite, watercolour, coloured pencil, acrylic and printmaking. I run a number of workshops from home and away and am a strong advocate of Nature Journaling. I live in Sumner, Christchurch.

My work focuses on the natural world around me and reflects my strong conservational and ecological ties with it.  I have extensive expertise in working artistically in this field, including in many of the more remote corners of New Zealand such as, the Subantarctic islands of New Zealand, Rakiura/ Stewart Island, Fiordland and the South Island high country.

I have been fortunate to receive a number of scholarships and awards and have exhibited extensively.

Affiliations:

Member: BASNZ - Botanical Art Society of New Zealand
Member: PCANZ - Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand
Member: PCA - Print Council of Australia

Education:

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) – Otago School of Art Dunedin, New Zealand - 2000
Post Graduate Diploma of Plant & Wildlife Illustration – Newcastle University, NSW, Australia - 1995
Diploma of Fine Arts with Honours - Otago School of Art Dunedin, New Zealand - 1993

Tutoring:

I run a number of workshops from home and away including: Nature Journaling, Botanical Illustration, Drawing Bugs and Butterflies, Woodcut prints, Drypoint etching & Solar etching

Exhibitions:

2025

March - Dec - Plants: Past, Present and Future - O Tātou Tipu o Mua - o Ināianei me te Āpōpō' - Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 - Auckland Botanic Gardens, Wellington Botanic Gardens and Ashburton Art Gallery

2021

May - ‘For the Love Of Botanical’ - Space Studio and Gallery, Whanganui

2020

‘A Big Show of Little Botanical Works 2020’ - Annual exhibition BASNZ members, Auckland Botanic Gardens

2019      

‘Paradise Lost’-Solander Gallery, Wellington
‘Flora & Fauna’ – Selwyn Art Gallery, Darfield
‘The Christchurch Art Show’ – Wigram Airforce Base, Christchurch
‘Botanica 2019’ –Chamber Gallery, Rangiora

2018      

‘Above and Below’ – Jo Ogier & Margaret Elliott -Solander Gallery, Wellington
‘Thinking of Place II – Impact 10 Print conference’ - Santander, Spain and work also to be shown in Edinburgh
‘Botanica 2018’– The Pump House Gallery, Akaroa
 ‘All Aboard II’- Christmas Show Solander Gallery, Wellington       

2017      

‘Tamatea/ Dusky Sound Exhibition’– A touring exhibition of works organized by the Department of Conservation – Southland Museum & Art Gallery Invercargill; Te Hikoi, Riverton; DOC Visitor Centre, Te Anau; The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson

‘From the Rivers to the Shore’– A collaborative Print Project –Depot Artspace, Auckland and Oxford Art Gallery, Canterbury

‘Memento’– Inge Doesburg Gallery, Dunedin
‘Botanica 2017’– Selwyn Art Gallery, Darfield
‘Place Matters’– Caselberg Trust Fundraiser, Dunedin
 ‘All Aboard’- Christmas Show Solander Gallery, Wellington

 2016      

‘Tamatea/ Dusky Sound Exhibition’– A touring exhibition of works organized by the Department of Conservation – National Tour opening at Bowen House in Wellington

‘The Big Show’ - Solander Gallery, Wellington
‘Nature Watch’ - Jo Ogier & Marilynn Webb - Inge Doesburg Gallery, Dunedin
‘Green Spaces: Art & Nature’ - Solander Gallery, Wellington -Jo Ogier, Ben Reid, Vivian Ward, Emily Valentine (AUS) Leo Robba (AUS)

‘In Residence’ - Southland Museum & Art Gallery – Niho O Te Taniwha - Jo Ogier, Ans Westra, Margaret Jane Dawson, Chester Nealie, Jo Torr, Bill Hammond, Kalvin Collins and William Mathew Hodgkins

‘An Exhibition of Works on Paper’ - Selwyn Gallery, Darfield

‘Southern Artists’ – Millennium Art Gallery, Blenheim

‘Jo Ogier, Nicole Bourke, Sandra Thomson’ - – Selwyn Art Gallery, Darfield

‘Botanica 2016’ – The Tin Palace, Lyttleton, Christchurch

2015

‘Thinking of Place – A collaborative Australian/ NZ Print Exchange’– Eastside Gallery, Christchurch and Ink Masters Cairns Australia

‘First Impressions II’ – Mairangi Arts Centre, Mairangi Bay

‘Matchboxes’– Caselberg Trust Fundraiser – Moray Gallery, Dunedin

2014      

‘Near Neighbors’ – A collaborative Print Project between the Solander Gallery in Wellingtonand St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Victoia Australia

‘The Canterbury Plains florilegium’ – Touring exhibition by artist from the Botanical Art Society of Aotearoa NZ – Illex, Christchurch; Millennium Art Gallery, Blenheim; Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore; The Forrester Gallery, Oamaru; Aigantighe Gallery, Timaru

‘Denniston Plateau’– Inge Doesburg Galley, Dunedin

‘Weeds’– Jo Ogier - OCTA Gallery, Cromwell