With a 25-year career as a full-time artist working across several mediums, this artist has exhibited widely throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, with many of her works now held in private collections both nationally and internationally. Over the past seven years, she has focused her creative energy on copper - using a bold palette of colour achieved through a unique oxidation process involving a variety of ingredients. Each piece is entirely one-of-a-kind, offering a contemporary and highly expressive result.
Her use of copper - beautifully changeable and richly textured - allows her to explore themes of connection, growth, and the interaction between humanity and the environment. Her work reflects on time’s passing, historical shifts in habitat and behaviour, and our evolving relationship with the natural world.
She also brings a playful edge to her practice, drawing inspiration from language quirks, lyrical phrases, and those unforgettable earworm moments that lodge in the mind. These often find their way into her art, transformed through handwork and intuition into visual stories.
A deep appreciation for New Zealand’s wide-open spaces, light, and clarity informs her work, as does an equal fascination with the smallest details - pebbles in shadowed corners, subtle textures, and imagined folklore hidden in the land.
Her copper pieces often balance a raw, industrial finish with fine, delicate embellishments — honouring the earth’s precious, and sometimes overlooked, gifts. Viewers are invited to journey inward through the layered landscapes she creates.