Magical Drawings

Exhibited in Melanie Roger Gallery and Page Blackie Gallery in 2012

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Installed at Melanie Roger Gallery, 2012.

Installed at Melanie Roger Gallery, 2012.

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Panel Discussion

New migrants from the Asian region and the New Zealand Art Context

8 Oct 2011, 1pm-2.30pm, Gus Fisher Gallery

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Held in conjunction with Liyen Chong’s exhibition at Gus Fisher Gallery: Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once.
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2011 GFG Panel invite

Introduction:

Vera Mey (00:08)
Liyen Chong (11:11)

Panelists:

Danny Butt (20:32)
Wai Ho (34:40)
Hanna Scott (43:06)

Followed by Q&A session. Thanks very much to all who came and also participated.

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Disappearance scheduled for Friday and other works.

Disappearance scheduled for Friday and other works.

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Exhibited in Page Blackie Gallery and Melanie Roger Gallery 2011/2012

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Installation at Page Blackie Gallery, 2011.

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Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once

Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once

Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, September 2011

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Installation views.

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Exhibition catalogue with essay by Victoria Wynne-Jones can be downloaded here.

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Threaded Stories

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia

A collaborative community project, facilitated by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney. Read more here & here.

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.Photos by Garry Trinh.

Photos by Garry Trinh.

Exportware

Photographic laser decals depicting a solitary woman in uncertain garb were fired onto found ceramic bowls. Alluding to trade routes of ceramics between Asia and Europe, this work speaks to the eventual migration of bodies from Asia to the rest of the world. Referencing Japanese souvenir ceramics in which an East Asian woman is drawn into a ceramic bowl, this work also recalls ancient incantation bowls on which Lilith, an ambiguous female archetype feared by some but also heralded as a symbol of female empowerment by feminist thinkers, appears.

Exhibited at Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, November 2010 & in various places.

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Ceramic decal images. 


 

 

Found bowls with ceramic decals fired onto them, and painted over with acrylic.

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Installation views at Page Blackie Gallery

 

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Photographic laser decals depicting a solitary woman in uncertain garb were fired onto found ceramic bowls. Alluding to trade routes of ceramics between Asia and Europe, this work speaks to the eventual migration of bodies from Asia to the rest of the world. Referencing Japanese souvenir ceramics in which an East Asian woman is drawn into a ceramic bowl this work also recalls ancient incantation bowls on which Lilith, an ambiguous female archetype, feared by some but also heralded as a symbol of female empowerment by modern feminist thinkers, appears.

Associated essay by Vera Mey.

Moonbowls

These were the final embroideries I made with hair. Featuring Sue Upritchard’s grey locks, and my own black hair. To read more about this body of work, scroll down or navigate to the page Mythical Creatures. Or refer to the artist’s book & catalogue, 9, published in 2008. There’s probably a few things floating around the internet about this body of work too.

 

 

August 2010

Patterns

Works completed between 2006-2010.

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