My work has a strong aesthetic reference to our New Zealand flora and I am interested in exploring the parallels between the cycles of nature and the family together with notions of motherhood and genealogy.
Having focused much of my university research on the accomplishments of women, I was drawn to work in bronze with its historical connotations of commemoration and immortality. Each of my works within this concept carries the embossed texture of a thread of lace like a 'finger print', acknowledging my European ancestry.
Parallels between the bush and familial cycles have led me to focus on the parts of plants which protect and nurture the next layer or next generation of growth. With this reference to the role of women, I have titled each piece woman’s first name.
Every piece is a one-off work, as individual as the woman after whom it as named.