Brit Bunkley

Matthew Crookes wrote for the Creative New Zealand funded arts agency, Circuit[1] that "Bunkley’s practice throws up many contradictions: the emphasis on the surface, yet the references are to things and ideas outside the work itself.

He immigrated from New York City to New Zealand in 1995 to take up a teaching position as head of sculpture at the Quay School of the Arts Whanganui.

His early career in the U.S.A. included a number of permanent public art commissions including Gate Mask in New York City of which Michael Brenson wrote in the New York Times:[3] "Rubbing together a new suburban façade that seems to be rising and an old façade that seems to be sinking into the ground creates sparks with social and political colorations".

[10] Bunkley began making experimental digital and video art in the 1990s as a response to his new place of residence in NZ.

In a 2003 interview, he said "Because of my relative isolation from sources of commissioned work, I jumped head first into the 3D digital realm which has proven not only a technical challenge but opened up creative possibilities that I never knew existed".

[14] Bunkley has screened and exhibited his video artwork at numerous exhibitions and festivals including: Bunkley has received numerous awards[11] and grants for his sculpture and video, including the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1985–86, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1980).