Category: exhibitions
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The story behind my work for Te Puna o te Atua
Some time in 2024 (I think it was in the middle of the year) I found out Te Awahou Collective had an upcoming exhibition at Te Manawa. This was a huge thing for me and I am thrilled to be part of a group that had the opportunity to exhibit there. I was mulling over…
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Te Manawa exhibition opening
After finishing my Masters degree in 2024, I was flat out working on my piece for an exhibition by Te Awahou Collective, called Te Puna o Te Atua, at Te Manawa. But let me backtrack a little. Towards the end of 2023, I met Albert McCarthy through Gary Whiting who is a lecturer at UCOL.…
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Student exhibition
The past five to six weeks have been full on. As Andrea (a ceramist and one of our lecturers) would say ‘head down, bottom up’, I was working none-stop on my two pieces for the student exhibition. For this semester I was exploring and playing with scale/size, and in line with my subject matter (liminality)…
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First solo exhibition
Not sure if it is because I’m getting older, but the weather is getting to me of late. Then again, with climate change the weather is anyway proving to be challenging and getting worse by the year. At our place the winters are getting wetter, not because of more rain (I don’t think, or is…
Wouna le Roux 