Facilitated by Lisa Munnelly and Angela Kilford
Sat 21 Feb and Sat 28 Feb
1 - 3pm
Toi Pōneke Gallery
Free
Come along to this drop-in style workshop in the gallery with artists - Lisa Munnelly and Angela Kilford to make part of a collaborative raranga artwork. You’ll use off cuts from Lisa’s canvas paintings; that the artists will then teach you to weave, to create a new artwork that will hang in the gallery. This workshop is whānau friendly and would suit anyone interested in working with their hands in a creative way.
Artist Biographies
Lisa Munnelly
Lisa Munnelly is an artist and writer whose practice examines the relationship between mind, matter, action and form. With a close and constant study of materiality, Munnelly employs mark-making and repetition to enact, analyze and celebrate different materials, and their capacity to both perform and transform. Munnelly is a Senior Lecturer in Textiles at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University https://lisamunnelly.carbonmade.com/
Angela Kilford
Angela Kilford Te Whanau A Kai, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu is an artist, designer, educator and researcher living in Te Whanganui A Tara. Her current research practice focuses on how mātauranga Māori and Māori participation can inform textile design practice and research to produce ways to benefit Māori communities and to sustain Papatūānuku. Alongside this, Angela's art practice explores the whakapapa of local ecology and the lesser-known connections between living and non-living entities. These ideas are examined and expressed through walking, performance, collaborative making, large scale public installations and writing.
Under, Over and Across
By Lisa Munnelly and Angela Kilford
14 Feb – 13 March
Exploring the potential of woven structures through textile making, the exhibition by Angela Kilford and Lisa Munnelly titled Under, Over and Across creates a dialogue between painting, raranga and hand-woven works. As Munnelly seeks to elevate the canvas by exposing the materiality of the surface, Kilford reveals the workings of textile surfaces through upscaled structural motifs and live raranga sessions in the gallery. Together, Under, Over and Across will present painting interwoven with participatory performance practice, public engagement framed and informed by compositions of connection, and an exhibition celebrating the interrelation between material, maker and making.
