weaver/fibre artist
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 →
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 Left Bank Gallery in Greymouth hosted the second Gold.Flax.Paper Exhibition from 25 February to 19 March 2020. The first exhibition was in Hokitika a year ago. Gold.Flax.Paper: a collaboration of three Hokitika artists Kira Birchfield, jeweller – gold Anne Daniel, fibre artist – flax/harakeke Kate Buckley, visual artist – Continue Reading →
Location of Driftwood and Sand 24-28 January 2018 This year’s Driftwood and Sand beach sculpture event was a little different. There was no beach at high tide so sculptures needed to be built on the rock wall or on the grass at the top of it. There were however lots Continue Reading →