Category: textile art
-
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.…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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)…
-
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…