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Kahu huruhuru 2007
Hand relief printed and constructed paper cloak
350gsm White Incisioni Printmaking paper
Green, gold and red ochre oil based ink.
In my printmaking I create cultural artefacts, whose forms suggest they could be used for human adornment. I replicate textiles and materials from the real world and weave them into objects that embody cultural identity. I am attracted to traditional artefacts and have a need to address them a contemporary style as this helps me to understand where I have come from. I choose to present my work in a museum display context because this is how I have mostly collected the traditional seeds of my identity.
350gsm White Incisioni Printmaking paper
Green, gold and red ochre oil based ink.
In my printmaking I create cultural artefacts, whose forms suggest they could be used for human adornment. I replicate textiles and materials from the real world and weave them into objects that embody cultural identity. I am attracted to traditional artefacts and have a need to address them a contemporary style as this helps me to understand where I have come from. I choose to present my work in a museum display context because this is how I have mostly collected the traditional seeds of my identity.
Thursday, September 20
Thursday, June 14
Collecting Identity
The prints are made from diverse materials to symbolize the multiple roles people occupy in a postmodern world. Fabrics used are from classic, iconic styles so that other people can connect with the kete. They are symbolic kete forms mediated rather than lodged in the particular.
My kete create dialogue between two cultures, Maori and Pakeha. These threads weave through my life as the two cultures I collected at birth.
My work is a container for my self.
“For it is invariably oneself that one collects.”
- Jean Baudrillard
My kete create dialogue between two cultures, Maori and Pakeha. These threads weave through my life as the two cultures I collected at birth.
My work is a container for my self.
“For it is invariably oneself that one collects.”
- Jean Baudrillard
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