A Few Birds and Plants

'Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them' (A.A. Milne)

other artist who share a weedy or plant interest:Starting first with some contemporary artist, before I move down the ‘my artist whakapapa’ to some earlier artist.The first artist is Michael Landy and

Revisiting my question I posed a year ago with some back ground info to how I got to where I am today and where I believe I am going with  a clearer focus; This initial question was stated

April Seminar Critique notes & self reflection:Artist statement that went with this work:confusion creates a rift in the natural orderthey establish a footing in confusionthey take advantage of our

Have visited 2 exhibitions in last few weeks - Harbourview sculpture trail 2014 & Pah Homestead.Both places had a variety of works on display or in the case of Pah Homestead, there were several

I have recently had the joy of stumbling across Richard Mabey, an English nature writer. Once I found his writing I could not control myself and searched the library system for his other books.

While researching to find info that related to the wild radish plant, I came across this cool music video on you tube: The wild radish song The back ground info on this is: "A parody of the Gotye hit

Gallery visit last week to Bath Street Gallery in Parnell. It had a show on with works about collecting and liquid light photography that piqued my interest. The show’s title was Multiplicity and was

As an artist who is very influenced by plants I am also very keen to ensure our environment is kept clean not just for the future but also for the present. This means that not just weeds that threaten

Continuing on with my reading about weeds and what they are or how they can be described, is proving to be both interesting from my perspective, but also how people react when they see you reading a

Since the january assessment I have been putting my head into many books on weeds, research artist who use weeds or anything to do with weeds. With the aim to come to terms with the character of my

the artist statement that is accompanying the work: The bond between people and plants is as old as humanity itself. It is a tempestuous union, sometimes symbiotic but more often driven by production

First I had to satisfy a comment from Tessa, that they could look great lined up, high along the wall. The little person (modelled on myself!!) is 1.8m tall, hopefully helping to create scale to the

After deciding that a wider plinth in the middle of the floor felt funeral like (I had it also set up in the middle of my garage and it felt very much like I had my gardening auntie in there, waiting

then watch this: http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/talks/tedxamsterdam-lonneke-gordijn-11302010/

In amongst the hectic last 3 weeks of xmas and turning a year older I managed to read some non arts related things (as a house full of relatives is not calm enough to read art words) I came across