As the family home I grew up in goes on the market, I thought about how many of my memories and life events are strongly linked to this house and the suburb. Postcards from Parnell is a bright and fun highlight reel to my life; much like a modern day Instagram account.
On Queen’s Birthday 1975 a hitchhiker went missing on lonely Matea Road off the Napier-Taupo highway. She stands in the shadow of her attacker and in her final moments her world fractures and she is surrounded by jellyfish. Behind her a tornado approaches drawing up the car that carried her there into its vortex. In […]
An imagined piece of loss and hope. With the stars of Matariki above him the last huia has been sucked through a worm hole space portal. Surrounded by the undersea creatures and bats that made the journey with him he is trapped in space and time on the edge of a event horizon. Perhaps one […]
Mālō e lelei, ko hoku hingoa ko Hūfia Taumoefolau, My lino print as a whole represents the beauty of Pasifika women. Breaking it down, there are the flowers that represent beauty with the woman that I have chosen who is doing a traditional dance and in our Tongan culture we believe that it is to […]
Mālō e lelei, ko hoku hingoa ko Hūfia Taumoefolau. My lino print focuses on the strength and power of the coconut palm. “Known as the ‘tree of life’, locals make use of every part of the tree to survive – the fruit for eating, husks for fuelling fires, fronds for making multiuse baskets, and the […]
This mixed media piece, Dissolve is from a series of artworks that deals with the grief of my mother dying five years ago. I have used a combination of still life elements and abstract shapes, layered up with collaged photographs and a range of media to create the idea of grasping and holding on to […]
This mixed media piece, Remnants is from a series of artworks that deals with the grief of my mother dying five years ago. I have used a combination of still life elements and abstract shapes, layered up with collaged photographs and fabric and a range of media to create the idea of grasping and holding […]
This mixed media piece, She’s Here is from a series of artworks that deals with the grief of my mother dying five years ago. I have used a combination of still life elements and abstract shapes, layered up with collaged photographs and a range of media to create the idea of grasping and holding on […]
The way old English greenhouses were where fairies were believed to have lived and taken care of.
