ART IN THE PARK-PUKEKOHE

February Art in Parks event saw my human flower mandala transform into a one-eyed monster and a rocket-powered space ship.

Thank you Auckland City Council.

Love the random adventure of kids and community. Arohanui.

WAKA WHENUA / BOAT PEOPLE. 1.

THE MIGRATION OF DISPERSED VESSELS was born through a moment in history. It is a collaborative exhibition that explores community and our combined social response to "strangers in a strange land" and how we determine strangeness and belonging.

The initial rage that instigated a need to question our response to this global social & political history in the making, has led to us contemplating our own sense of belonging through exploration of how we view our arts practice and experimentation. 

Does our own art carry the perception and strength of one or many? How passive is the beautiful aesthetic?

By viewing each other's preferred medium as a point of reference for our own work , we hope to explore ideas and processes that will contribute a sense of "foreign". 

Three artists who work with textiles and fibre will be presenting the findings of our study in July at the Franklin Arts Centre's Steel Gallery.

AVIAN THEMES

My obsessive fascination with carnage of the beautiful continues. 

I have images of our colonial military past for the top image of the Kotare or Kingfisher bird. How blasé we humans are about roadkill of 

other species. Record, bless and bury is my modus operandi.

SLOW  LITTLE SUPRISES 

POP-UP COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

These environmental workshops are the best thing to have come out of  my enforced move away from the loom. 

I'm not sure if I prefer the structure and precision adult participants tend to bring to the event, or the huge little surprises the kids ALWAYS bring with their lateral ideas.