NEW WORKS 

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 In this new body of work, titled 'Markers', recurring elements and themes speak to the concept of 'Nga Tohu Pumuhara', The survey pegs of the past. These pegs or memory markers connect us to the land, through differing and sometimes confronting histories. The marker here can offer the viewer a opportunity to read our past through a shared lens of time, change and hope.

The 'Marker', paintings capture a moment of time, a moment before massive change to the people, and to the environment. The markers are placed in the landscape here by a unknown hand, the ribbon or rag flows in the wind, denoting a change in the air.

The red ribbon shown here, might represent...

Papatuanuku, the earth mother, the sustainer of all living things.

Te Whei Ao, The realm of coming into being, the forest.

Rahui, a prohibition, here to protect a resource.

Here the Wai-Horotiu flows freely down the harbour, through a jumbled street scene.

A map of the Hauraki Gulf, re-imagined with all the implicit promises of routes new and old, in and out of the unknown.

Readings of history, the ocean, flora and fauna of the gulf, all come together in maps that speaks of a culture rather than a direction.

From the West coast to the East coast, corridors linking stands of forest to neighbouring stands, creating safe passages for birds and wildlife to meander between coasts.

A clearing in a forest/bush. Development and growth in a changing landscape. A move to the town, from wood to brick, from old quiet to new clamour.

Three 25 x 25 cm, oil on panels, 2023

Five bush panels, 20 x 20 cm Oil on board 2023

Five panels, 20 x 20 cm, Oil on board, 2023.

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