Exhibiting Artist:
2023 "Reverberation" - group exhibition at Quiet Dog Gallery Nelson
2022 BAM Bachelor exhibition NMIT - The Framing Rooms Award of Distinction
2022 Changing Threads selected exhibiting artist
2021 Wall to Wall Gallery – Guest Exhibitor
2021 Changing Threads selected exhibiting artist
2019 Changing Threads selected exhibiting artist- Nelson City Council Award for the best use of a Traditional Technique with a contemporary twist
2016 Changing Threads contemporary fiber awards selected exhibiting artist
2015 Changing Threads contemporary fiber awards selected exhibiting artist
2015 Taranaki Art awards selected exhibiting artist
2015 Collaborative Exhibition at Woods and Co – Upper Moutere
2014 Changing Threads contemporary fiber awards selected exhibiting artist - Highly Commended
2014 SYNERGY Shibori Down Under -The Belconnen Arts Centre exhibiting artist
2014 Art Expo Nelson participating exhibitor
2013 Changing Threads contemporary fiber awards selected exhibiting artist
Art Education:
Bachelor of Visual Arts and Media Level 7 NMIT 2022
New Zealand Diploma in Creativity Level 6 - Learning Connexion 2022
Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts and Media Level 6 NMIT 2015
Statement
Artist Statement:
How might one find a sense of home and cultural identity from a place of historical neglect?
My current work is exploring the concepts of Homeland / Tūrangawaewae from a Pākeha perspective, examining the influence of colonisation on the Whenua and consequently my own Pākeha background. With a Māori husband and three children, cultural identity — or indeed a sense of lack in identity — continues to frame and inform our family discussions.
Current works are abstract mark-making on raw, unstretched canvas. The canvas dragged across the landscape where I live - areas that show the scars of development, collecting marks from nature, detritus from the bush and skid sites leaving their mark.
Creating charcoal from scraps of native timber, remnants from my father's woodturning, I created harsh black marks, a real sense of physicality, my hands becoming my tools. Dragging, drawing, pouring and dripping inks, shellac, charcoal, and paint; my innate art making process was expressive and abstract. Through all of this, my subject matter is the landscape, and yet my process seeks to question how a landscape can be made present within this process. How does a bodily connection with the canvas and the landscape add to the making of gestural marks? This is a question and concern central to my current work.
My current work explores the concepts of Homeland / Tūrangawaewae from a Pākeha perspective, examining the influence of colonisation on the Whenua. Referencing landscapes on canvas in mixed media with gestural acts and raw mark-making.
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