Editing Vincent Ward (director) (section)

== Painting and photography ==

Since 2010 Ward has launched a second career as a painter and video artist. In 2012 he had his first major solo show, ''Breath'', at New Zealand's cutting edge public gallery, the [[Govett-Brewster Art Gallery]]/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. This was followed by two other public gallery showings in Auckland <ref>{{cite web|title=Vincent Ward exhibitions|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1206/S00222/vincent-ward-exhibitions.htm|work=Scoop Independent News – Culture|publisher=[[Scoop Media]]|access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> and a solo pavilion at the 9th [[Shanghai Biennale]] 2012.<ref name="Biennale">{{cite web | url=http://vincentwardfilms.com/painting-prints/shanghai-biennale/shanghai/ | title=Solo Exhibition at the Shanghai Biennale | publisher=Vincent Ward | date=2014 | access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref>

Ward received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury (2014) and an adjunct professorship.<ref name="Hon Doc University of Canterbury.">{{cite web |title=Hon doc - Vincent Ward Doctor of Fine Arts 2014 |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/alumni/our-alumni/uc-hon-docs/vincent-ward/ |website=canterbury.ac.nz |publisher=University of Canterbury |access-date=15 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="UC adjunct professor Dr Vincent Ward">{{cite web |title=NZ film invited to be part of Cannes celebrations |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2014/nz-film-invited-to-be-part-of-cannes-celebrations.html |website=www.canterbury.ac.nz |publisher=University of Canterbury |access-date=15 Oct 2020}}</ref> In 2015 he had a guest professorship at the [[China Academy of Art]], in Hanzhou, as well as a residency at the Shanghai University School of Fine Arts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dickie |first1=Anna |title=Vincent Ward, in conversation with |url=https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/vincent-ward/ |website=Ocula |publisher=Ocula Magazine|date= 12 February 2022 |access-date=4 March 2022}}</ref>

Ward is represented in New Zealand by Trish Clark Gallery.

Art writer and reviewer Anthony Byrt (Art Forum) described the work as “intense... stunning... virtuosic” and said “Ward has never shied away from the truth: he digs and digs until he gets somewhere other filmmakers and artists don't often visit: a psychic space where violence, memory, myth, sex and religion mingle in a landscape scarred by history.”.<ref>{{cite web|last=Byrt|first=Anthony|title=Vincent Ward: Breath – The Fleeting Intensity of Life review|url=http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/art/vincent-ward-breath-the-fleeting-intensity-of-life-review/|work=[[New Zealand Listener]]|publisher=APN Holdings NZ Ltd|access-date=3 July 2012|date=7 January 2012}}</ref>

Rhana Devenport, director Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, wrote in her catalog for the exhibition: Ward's ongoing concerns with metamorphosis, falling, light, fear, memory, darkness and the transformative moment have led him to create a series of vast, physically imposing works that delve into other-worldly landscapes and transcendent states, to evocations of loss, redemption and unconscious realms.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://vincentwardfilms.com/painting-prints/art-exhibitions/ | title=Art | publisher=Vincent Ward | access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref>