Eva During (Eva Ding) is a Chinese-born, Ōtepoti-based artist currently completing her MFA at the Dunedin School of Art, following a BVA (Honours) in Sculpture and a Diploma in Ceramics. Her work is deeply rooted in the quiet tensions of migration and memory, moving between softness and weight – between what is inherited and what is chosen. Weaving personal experience with broader cultural histories, her practice explores themes of identity, tradition, gender, and belonging.
Education
2024 – MFA in Sculpture, Dunedin School of Art (DSA).
2023 BVA in Sculpture (First Class Honours), DSA.
2022 BVA in Sculpture and Ceramics, DSA.
2021 Diploma in Arts and Design – Ceramics, DSA.
Awards
2025 Ceramic New Zealand 61st National Exhibition, Merit Award.
2025 The Cleveland National Art Awards, Finalist.
2024 The Arts House Trust/Dunedin School of Art Award for 2025 Recipient Exhibition.
2023 Excellence in Visual Art Award of Dunedin Fringe Festival.
2023 Friends of DSA scholarship.
2022 David Con Hutton Scholarship.
2021 Waiclay National Ceramic Merit Award.
2020 NZ ECC Students Craft and Design – Ceramic Award.
Exhibitions
2025 (21 November – January 2026) Upcoming Exhibition at Slant Art Project Space, Dunedin.
2025 (21 November – 8 February 2026) Portage Ceramic Award 2025 Exhibition. Te Uru Contemporary Gallery, Auckland.
2025 (24 October – 18 January 2026) Twist and Shout. Ceramic. Ceramic NZ 61st National Exhibition. The Arts House Trust/Pah Homestead, Auckland.
2025 (24 October – 18 January 2026) Under The Bridge. Hand-stitched shā bāo filled with wheat, grain, and bean, and digital media installation. The Arts House Trust/Pah Homestead, Auckland.
2025 (05 September – 05 December) Your Hands, Your Heart, and Your Head. Photographs of stoneware ceramics, multiple-fired in cone 6 oxidation. AS Gallery at WebbFarry Lawyers, Dunedin.
2025 (3 May – 07 June) An Ongoing Rewire In-between Red and Black, and Else Rather, Where Becoming Occurs. Installation of rewired pipe cleaners. Pond Art Project Space and Gallery, Dunedin.
2025 (22 March – 26 April) I Will Meet You In The Blooming Mire. Ceramic. Cleveland National Art Awards Exhibition. Otago Art Society, Dunedin.
2024 Was the dream you once had like the one I hold now? Mixed-media sculpture. Curated by Caro Bell and Lucy Hill. BellHill Gallery at Dunedin School of Art.
2024 Two Horses. Graphite Drawing on Paper. Albell & Associates Group Drawing Show at Slant Art Project Space, curated by Sarah McGaughran, Dunedin.
2023 I am not a Tool for Carrying on the Family Lineage. Mixed-media Sculpture. SITE Exhibition at Dunedin School of Art.
2023 City Planners 2023. Group Collaboration Performance Art with Liz Rowe, Bronwyn Gale, Marion Familton, Locke Unhold and Lizzie Brown. Funded by Dunedin Dream Brokerage. Dunedin Fringe Festival.
2022 Interrelations, Whakapuāwai Nelson Clay Week – DSA ceramic students and alumni exhibition, Nelson.
2022 囡 (nān). Mixed-media sculpture. SITE Exhibition at Dunedin School of Art.
2022 Route III Teapot. Ceramic. Waiclay National Ceramic Awards Exhibition at The Waikato Museum, Hamilton.
2021 This Is Us. Ceramic installation. ECC Students Craft and Design Awards Exhibition at The Dowse Gallery, Wellington.
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