Chiara Corbelletto

Corbelletto was born in 1956 in Biella, Italy.^[2] She trained as an artist in Italy, studying at the University of Milan. She arrived in New Zealand in 1981,^[3] after which she spent the next six years working as an art restorer.^[2]

Corbeletto moved her studio to the Corban Estate Arts Centre around the year 2004.^[1] In 2005, Corbelletto unveiled Numbers Are the Language of Nature, a sculpture in the Auckland Domain commissioned as a part of Outdoor Sculpture 2001, to create a sculpture walk within the Domain.^[4] The maquette of the sculpture is held at Auckland War Memorial Museum.^[5]

Corbeletto's 1001 Spheres was unveiled in 2023 in Monte Cecilia Park, Auckland, to mark 125 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand.^[6]

Art historian Michael Dunn feels that Corbelletto's works occupy "a position somewhere between abstraction and figuration".^[3]

• Twins (2003), located at the Grafton Campus of the University of Auckland.^[7][8]
• Numbers Are the Language of Nature (2005), located in the Auckland Domain.^[4]
• Paremuka Bridge (2005) woven designs, Rānui/Western Heights, Auckland.^[9]
• White Delta and Archimede (2008), two polypropylene sculptured purchased by Te Papa in 2008.^[10]
• Binary (2014), at Massey University, Palmerston North.^[11]
• The façade of the Te Atatū Peninsula Library (2014), Te Atatū Peninsula, Auckland^[12]
• 1001 Spheres (2023), located in Monte Cecilia Park, Auckland^[13]

• Arche the Beginning (1988), Gow Langsford Gallery, Grey Lynn, Auckland^[14]
• Scultura (1990), Gow Langsford Gallery, Parnell, Auckland^[15]
• Essenza and Affinita (1997), Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga^[16]