2024

NZPPA2024

Selected as a finalist for the NZ Paint and Printmaking Awards 2024 by Marian Maguire and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and held at artspost galleries, Kirikiriroa, Hamilton

Idyll / Idle 910mm x 520mm x 18mm
Seven colour screenprint on found vintage wallpaper

The picturesque, repeat pattern on found wallpaper is disrupted by bustling port activity and AI generated synthetic pattern, creating a future of unsustainable uncertainty. Local subsistence is displaced by the cost of global capitalism and its excesses on the environment with consumption weighing heavily on our post-industrial oasis.