I live in Eastbourne, a small village near Wellington, New Zealand. My connection to other arts disciplines inform my current work and I am driven by light, colour and texture. Geometric pattern and lines are recurring motifs and have their roots in my love for architecture and pattern.
Materially my media are similarly varied, ranging from painting and printing to felt-making with other techniques, mostly paper and textile related, in between. It may be a sign of a short attention span, but let’s go with ‘creative thinking’ instead.
My work is shown at galleries across the region. I continue to be encouraged and humbled by the interest and awards that they have garnered. I am also grateful for the support of family and friends and will happily continue to answer questions like “What is that supposed to be?” or “What are you making?”!
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Taranaki National Art Awards, 2023
Winner, Fibre Arts
Judge’s comments:
A mesmerising work in the Fibre art category influenced by music, origami, polyrhythms and the cross as a multi-layered signifier.
It is a miracle that a two-dimensional sheet of paper can be transformed into three-dimensional sculptural landscape of oblique and rectilinear planes energised in paint and overlaid with rhythms of fibre; black and white to accentuate shape and even contest the three dimensionality of form.
The more one engages with the work; rhythm and accent emerge in this carefully orchestrated landscape of nuanced pattern and form. The white fibre patterns of crosses and vertical bars entice the eye to engage in each of the rows; fifteen in all. The initial row descends uninterrupted from top to bottom establishing a rhythmical unity that is subsequently subject to strategic displacement as painted planes framed and unframed in black thread dance to an alternative beat allowing painted passages space for expression.
Exhibitions.........
Exhibitions.........
HERE I AM BUT AM I HERE?
Solo Exhibition
From Out of the Blue Studio Gallery, Opunake, NZ.
14 March - 28 April 2024
ABROAD
what’s in the suitcase?
Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, NZ.
25 August - 17 September 2023
BRANCH OUT/BRANCH OFF
Raetihi Arts Trust Gallery, Raetihi, NZ
1 September 2023 - Labour Weekend
TARANAKI ARTS TRAIL 2023
27 October - 5 November 2023
Daughters of Eve
Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, NZ
Exhibition 3 - 26 March 2023
with Brenda Cash, Suzan Kostanich, Kris White, Jeanette Verster & Maria Brockhill
Exhibition - Lysaght Watt Gallery
Hawera, New Zealand, April 2022
Changing Threads
Contemporary Textile Fibre Awards NZ 2022
Bernina Award Winner
Hollow Words
Paper, machine stitch, wax
(100 - 250 mm dia)
Changing Threads
Contemporary Textile Fibre Awards NZ 2022
Selected for National Exhibition
Drizzle
Linen, paper, acrylic ink, folded, & stitched
(approx. 900 x 900 mm)
My Last ABC
It began with an idea in the early hours of morning: There are countless “My First ABC” books for young readers, so why not “My Last ABC”? Well, here it is, an ABC for the Unyoung.
(Follow link to see selected mages from the Exhibition or scroll down for other work)
Lysaght Wyatt Trust
National Art Awards 2021
Supreme & 3-D Category Award Winner
Folded Weaving
Paper, Cordyline Australis Fibre, Wool
(800mm x 800mm)
Changing Threads
Contemporary Textile Fibre Art Awards 2021
Selected for National Exhibition
Poem
Wool on silk
(1800mm x 2400mm)
Art Award - Fibreworks 2020
Folds
Water colour and stitched paper on felted background.
(400mm x 400mm)
Permanent Collection, Puke Ariki Museum 2020
Isolation from
“The Plague”.
(Artist Book)
Felt, stitch on paper.
(10 pages, concertina binding, 150mm x1000mm)
Winner Fibre Art Section
Taranaki National Art Awards 2019
Remembrance
Felt
(200mm x250mm)
Winner Taranaki Section,
Taranaki National Art Awards 2019
Here I Am But Am I Here?
Paint, stitch on kozo paper.
(2500mm x1500mm)
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