Facilitated by Kate Stevens West
Sunday 6th August 1-3pm
The Gallery and Hub
Free
Children working with the lightbox
Facilitator info
Kate Stevens West
Kate Stevens West (Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) is an artist who mostly draws and paints, but she does love scissors and the way they slide through the contents of the recycling bin. Her practice revolves around family, those long gone, and those still at her feet. After a long stretch pouring energy into her four children, she resumed a creative practice and her work is now in public and private collections around New Zealand. Recent work explores Kāi Tahutaka, working with historical research, traditional paints and pigments. A solo exhibition will be held at Bowen Galleries later this year.
Free drop-in style family workshop making carboard/ paper cut outs of people, clothes, food and/ or lines of poetry. Children and families can then play with these in the gallery on a large interactive lightbox or make a poster to take home. All materials provided. Bring your whānau.
Dirty Laundry
29 July - 25 August
Dirty Laundry brings together thirteen artists and writers to explore and express their experience of invisible labour: painter & designer, Kate Stevens West; somatic practitioner, Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann; essayist, Bronwyn Polaschek; poets, Cassie Ringland-Stewart & Mary Walker; digital artist & photographer, Johanna Mechen; photographer, Dianna Thomson; painter, Hana Carpenter; installation artists, Caitlin Rose Donnelly & Zoe Thompson-Moore & personal non-fiction writer, Holly Walker.
