These paintings are a story of physicality or of finding. Using the body’s scaffolding as a starting point to push into abstraction, to break the space between body and world, or skin and atmosphere, to undo the myth that things are separate. I’m interested in how our bodies, like land, hold memories, how land, like skin across bones, holds onto the unfinished conversations of our ancestors, and how that shapes the images we make and how we see.
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- photo courtesy of artsdiary.co.nz
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- love, oil on canvas, 1800 x 2400mm, 2015
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- ‘we’ve always been here’ oil on canvas 1800 x 2400mm, 2015
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- detail from ‘we’ve always been here’
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- ‘seven generations’ oil on canvas, 1200x1400mm, 2015
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- detail ‘seven generations’
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- photo courtesy of Karena Way
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- ‘11,000 miles’ oil on canvas, 610x765mm, 2015
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- ‘past the skin’ oil on canvas, 1200x1400mm, 2015
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- detail from ‘past the skin’
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- detail from ‘past the skin’
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- ‘weaving language and bones (1)’, oil on canvas, 1200x1400mm, 2015
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- ‘weaving language and bones (2)’, oil on canvas, 1200x1400mm, 2015
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- detail ‘weaving language and bones (1)’
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- ‘200 footsteps’ oil on canvas, 500x600mm, 2014
Many thanks to Rebecca Swan for photographing the work xx
