Provenance:

Fletcher Trust Collection

Ingrid Banwell was born at Taupo. She was educated at schools in Mexico City, Wellington and New York and graduated from Auckland University School of Fine Arts in 1981. In 1985 she was awarded a QEII Arts Council Travel Grant for study in the USA. Her painted wall constructions made in the mid 1980s experimented with the dividing line between painting and sculpture, the polarities of organic and geometric constructions and the assimilation of Oceanic with European art forms to express New Zealand's multi-cultural influences.