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10 Jul

Mosaic fused glass - 2025

Multiple coloured squares with murrines, canes, gold foil and dichroic glass. This piece has been assembled, fused, slumped into a ceramic mould, then brackets bonded on to the back for it to be able to hang on a wall for display

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10 Jul

Small Observations - 2025

This ongoing collaboration with sculptor Liz McAuliffe brings together her finely detailed porcelain leaves and seed pods with Isla Osborne’s hand-blown glass domes. This series of 10 works celebrates the quiet beauty of natural forms, inviting us to pause and truly see what is often overlooked. Together, they’ve created pieces that feel like contemporary heirlooms, […]

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10 Jul

Curious - 2025

‘Curious’ is a shimmering piece akin to dappled play of light on water. It is a component in a series of tondo where I explore circular forms from a perspective of considering how Spaces Between Spaces … become places. Investing in multiples and surrendering to the nature and quality of this medium relates inherently to […]

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10 Jul

Time - 2025

‘Time’ is a piece which forms a diptych with ‘Lapses’. These works explore qualities of movement, gesture and tone through texture using the technique of accretion. They evoke the visceral senses to smell and touch. It is a component in a series of tondo where I explore circular forms from a perspective of considering how […]

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10 Jul

Lapses - 2025

‘Lapses’ is a piece which forms a diptych with ‘Time’. These works explore qualities of movement, gesture and tone through texture using the technique of accretion. They evoke the visceral senses to smell and touch. It is a component in a series of tondo where I explore circular forms from a perspective of considering how […]

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10 Jul

Sitting in Brightness - 2025

Small spherical Sculpture in recycled wood , Carved , pyrography and paint with a small caste figure in the middleness .

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10 Jul

Crayfish - 2025

Delicacy from the sea

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10 Jul

Black gold of the ocean - 2025

Black gold of the Ocean Clay paua shell, hand made especially for this event

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10 Jul

Good Weed Bad weed - 2025

Tobacco weed is very prevalent in the Franklin area. According to the council it’s a weed under observation. It’s a bad weed. If the gangs could find a use for it, it might start disappearing overnight. This is a transplanting I did with tobacco plants from the Ramarama Roundabout that should t be there to […]

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10 Jul

Hoodoo the Maketu - 2025

A chocolate case with fanatic nest (storm damage) Wishbone dice UFO unidentified feral object. Rotted bark mushrooms. Lady Luck works in mysterious ways. The fantail fallen nest was coming in and out of the house and would leave from an open window. I lost a cousin around the fantails last visit. He hasn’t been in […]

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