weaver/fibre artist
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 →
Woven harakeke wall hangings by Anne Daniel in Left Bank Gallery members’ exhibition, LUSH Continue Reading →
Flora and Form: Creations from the Backyard – Solo exhibition – Anne Daniel – at the Left Bank Gallery, Greymouth, opened 24 May 6pm until 15 June. Artist talk 15 June, 1pm. Words from the opening When I signed up for a weekend flax weaving class at Westland High School Continue Reading →
Te Karaka Lodge commission – March 2023 I was engaged by FURNZ – Interior Design and Procurement Specialists – to create woven harakeke artworks for a new luxury lodge being built on Te Karaka Station near Port Waikako. This was my largest commission to date consisting of 20 artworks; a Continue Reading →
Circular weaving harakeke workshop – October 2023 I was invited by the Cheviot Craft Group to run a workshop on circular weaving with harakeke. I knew this would be a challenge for participants and it certainly was. But I was impressed with the perseverance the nine women showed over the Continue Reading →
Inspiration Inspired by my winning sculpture “Mantle” in this year’s Driftwood and Sand beach art event in Hokitika, I decided to create “Journeys” – a smaller, more refined work – for my entry in the 2023 Parkin Drawing Prize. Creating “Journeys” Artwork entry driftwood, stone, muka (harakeke/flax fibre) 900mm x Continue Reading →
I entered three harakeke artworks in the Left Bank Gallery members’ winter exhibition (23 May – 17 June 2023). The theme was ‘brain-sailing” Edward de Bono suggests that brainstorming is outdated, and brain-sailing is the way to go for new ideas. Brain-sailing is about cutting across normal patterns to produce Continue Reading →
Driftwood and Sand is a beach sculpture event held in the last week in January every year in Hokitika. Here is the story of my winning creation ‘Mantle’. Usually, I spend quite a lot of time beforehand walking on the beach, looking for materials and inspiration. But this year I Continue Reading →
“Into the Light”, the end-of-year exhibition for members opened at the Left Bank Gallery, Greymouth on 10 December 2022. It will run until 28 January 2023. I have two art works in the exhibition; ‘Shimmer” and ‘Golden Kōpae”.