EXHIBITION Resurface 2024

RESURFACING

Exhibition with glass artist Lisa Bates

Public Record
Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
August 22 to September 8 2024

These works continue my exploration of themes looking at family dna, the uncertainties of memory and ageing’s effects on the way we view the world.

I’ve been making abstract paintings based partly around my mother’s declining memory and health, but extended out to encompass my evolving understanding of how fragile but precious our physical and cognitive gifts are.

My mother’s unfailingly positive outlook has helped her through many health challenges and now, when she is at her most frail, she remains stoic in her choice to look for the good.

The provenance of these paintings goes back to 2019 when I was looking at the issues surrounding a cancer gene test my family was taking. My family’s dna – by that I mean the physical attributes that get passed down and the diseases, but also how we have our own tribal way of seeing the world – has been high in my mind as health issues have arisen and how those directly affected have responded.