weaver/fibre artist
I was invited along with four other textile/fibre artists to be part the Follow the Thread art exhibition. This is showing in The Coolstore Gallery on the Wharf in Māpua in the Nelson region. It runs from 16 August and it runs until 27 August 2026. I was fortunate enough Continue Reading →
There is something special about making a tool with your own hands, especially when that tool carries memory, craft, and daily use. My new pounamu hāpine tool began with a voucher, a piece of stone, and a long connection with harakeke weaving. A special opportunity in Hokitika I recently spent Continue Reading →
I was delighted to be invited to submit harakeke weaving artwork for the 53rd Annual Multimedia Exhibition, presented by Riversdale Arts in Northern Southland from 19–27 June 2026. I welcomed this opportunity after my previous invitation to participate ten years ago. The Riversdale Arts 53rd Mixed Media Exhibition celebrates the Continue Reading →
I was honoured to be commissioned by Shawn McAvinue on behalf of the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators to create a woven kete for a new trophy. It is for the Excellence in Agricultural Journalism Rongo Award. The open weave kete harakeke is mounted on a wooden Continue Reading →
The winter members’ exhibition, The Sum of All Parts, was held at Left Bank Gallery in Greymouth from 22 May to 27 June 2026. In response to the theme, I created three multipart artworks that each explored how individual materials, forms, and connections can gather into a larger whole. Artworks Continue Reading →
The exhibition is at The Collaboration, 83 Devon Street East, New Plymouth, New Zealand, from 14 May to 21 June 2026. Gallery statement Between Fibre & Form is a curated, biannual exhibition exploring the evolving relationship between traditional textile practice and contemporary art. Bringing together a small group of artists, Continue Reading →
A week of beach sculpture, shifting tides, and three works shaped from driftwood, stone, vine and flax. The annual Driftwood and Sand Beach Art Festival returned to Hokitika Beach at the end of January. After a busy summer with The Shape of Gathering exhibition and family visits, working directly with Continue Reading →
from out of the blue studio gallery, 18 Halse Place, Ōpunakē 4 Dec 2025 – 5 January 2026 The Shape of Gathering explores how materials, forms and gestures come together—sometimes loosely, sometimes tightly—to hold space. Each work begins with the gathering of plant matter from in and around my garden Continue Reading →
I entered three harakeke artworks in “Suspense, Suspension, Suspended, Suspend”, the Left Bank Gallery members’ winter exhibition in July-Aug 2025. On Waking, a work I created a year ago, had its first gallery showing. This work is a collection of different sized woven harakeke rings, stitched together with muka, the fibre extracted Continue Reading →
Edge of the World exhibition Waikawa Hall, Catlins Area in Southland from 21 February to 2 March 2025. Janice Broad and team from the Southern District Arts Trust run an annual art exhibition annual in the Waikawa Hall, in the Catlins, Southland. Each time they invite two artists from outside Continue Reading →