‘Markers’ Mark Wooller 2023-2025,

In this new body of work titled ‘Markers’ recurring elements and themes speak to idea 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 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 landscapes here by a unknown hand, the ribbon or rag flows in the wind,

 denoting a change in the air .

The red ribbons 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.