Bodies of Water (2024)
As part of Materialise Group Show by HANDSHAKE8 collective, exhibited at The Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aoteaora New Zealand.
Exploring themes of ritual, talisman, place, land, healing, matriarchal power, embodiment, instinct and intuition.
https://handshakeproject.com/bodies-of-water/
a short blog post about this series.
Proof of Concept: HANDSHAKE8 (2023)
As part of the HANDSHAKE8 group show
Exhibited at Depot Artspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aoteaora New Zealand.
barefoot in the twilight, sunlight lingers between bones. a circle drawn in the dirt, i collect sticks to make a fire. dusk gathers, as does the quiet. stillness. i become a starlit sky, become woodsmoke, river flow, mossy rocks and hard sharp edges. flowers wilt at the altar.
you are gone from this realm now, but your soul still speaks of fullness.
Kauri and Tohorā: Indigenous Healing for Anthropocene Grief. (2019-2021)
Exhibited at:
Otago Polytechnic Dunedin School of Art, Ngāi Tahu land: Ōtepoti Dunedin and;
Studio One Toi Tū, Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei land: Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
A collaborative exploration and co-creation between human and land, for the purpose of collective grief healing, aided by foundational principles of indigenous world views. The Earth as teacher, medicine and spiritual-being has its foundations in indigenous cultures including Māori, Aboriginal Australian and First Nations. Indigenous wisdom says that all beings are interconnected with the earth. We are not separate but are in kinship with, and extensions of, the land.
Long, long ago, Kauri and Tohorā, the tree and the whale, were brothers who once walked together on land. Tohorā was hunted and yearned to be free. He found refuge in the oceanic home of Tangaroa, god of the sea, meanwhile Kauri rooted himself deep into the land, home of Tāne Mahuta, god of the forest. In an act of love, Tohorā gifted Kauri his scales, which Kauri now wears proudly as his bark. He told Kauri if he ever needed his help, he would come to his aid.
Clink Project 7: Viral (2020)
Group Show. Dowse Museum, Te Atiawa land: Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington: Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aoteaora New Zealand.
A series of works during the Covid19 pandemic for a group exhibition focusing on the word "Viral", masked through bright, playful colours.
Grandmother’s Shrooms (2016-2019)
Mushrooms have a deep system of interconnected webs underground, where they communicate and connect. Their life-force comes through decay and death; their fruiting toadstool bodies sprout up as new life, often through dead trees or decaying organic matter. As a meditative aid through grief, death and beyond towards new life, it is meant to be a teacher of the shadow psyche, or unconscious realm of the human mind. These are guides, guardians, transformers, spirit allies and friends through the cosmic journey that is a soul embodied in this earthen walk.
