Railway Street Gallery, 8 Railway Street, Newmarket, Auckland

Exhibition: Wed 19 Feb - Sat 8 Mar 2025

(Wed-Sat 10am 4pm)

As a child I would rarely misbehave. I coloured between the lines. These works have become my reflective rebellion.

Through the act of material disruption, I aim to dislocate traditional frameworks of the canvas, shifting the gaze to a less conventional view. Painting, cutting, piecing and stitching is utilised to unsettle preconceptions of where or how an image is constructed.

Searching for a connection in the fragmented, in each piece I work through a dialogue between past and present. Disassembling and reconfiguring works allows for reclamation and reinterpretation.

‘A Basket Full of Armholes’ is a celebration of Jackie, my late Mum. It explores how we become both distinct and inseparably linked as mother and daughter. The title of the show and the works themselves are named after her idioms, for example substituting fuck with fudge, bastard with basket, asshole with armhole.