Category: textile art
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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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Master of Design
I’ve been postponing writing about my experience doing this degree through UCOL for some time now. Perhaps the fact that it was suddenly something of the past; no more deadlines, and no more worries about delivering something that could get me through, that caused a numbness, a lethargy that led to inertia. Not that making…
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Te Awahou Collective
I am honoured and delighted to be part of the Te Awahou Collective, and have my DOLOSSUS included in the art exhibition, To Catch a Falling Star | Hopukia te whetū rere | Om Een Vallende Ster te Vangen. The opening was on Saturday 27 January 2024, 3:30pm at the Māpuna Kabinet Art Gallery, Te…
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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)…
Wouna le Roux 