Celebrated New Zealand sculptor, photographer and installation artist Bill Culbert has been invited by Creative New Zealand to present his work at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Culbert was recommended to Creative New Zealand by an external advisory panel convened by 2013 Venice Biennale Commissioner Jenny Harper.  

Otago-born Culbert began his experimentation with electric light in the late 1960s. Often associated with kinetic and constructivist art, Culbert has been involved in more than 100 solo exhibitions in New Zealand, England, Europe, the United States and Australia since 1960.

Culbert studied fine art at Canterbury University School of Art (1953-56), and in 1957 received a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, gaining a silver medal for painting. He now works in sculpture, installation and photography, often in combination around the subject of light. His materials include light bulbs, lampshades, fluorescent tubes, plastic bottles, wine glasses and suitcases. He is represented in New Zealand by Sue Crockford Gallery and lives and works in the South of France and London.  

New Zealand first exhibited at the Biennale in 2001 with further exhibitions in 2003 and 2005. Artists who have exhibited previously are Peter Robinson and Jacqueline Fraser (2001), Michael Stevenson (2003), et al. (2005), Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard (2009) and Michael Parekowhai (2011).  

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