1 - 2pm
Saturday 7 March
Gallery
Free
Lisa Munnelly, Caroline McQuarrie and Angela Kilford L-R
Join artists Lisa Munnelly and Angela Kilford as they chat with Caroline McQuarrie about the works in their exhibition Under, Over and Across.
Together these artists will discuss techniques of painting and weaving and the interrelation between material, maker and making.
Artists Biographies
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.
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/
Caroline McQuarrie is an interdisciplinary artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. In her practice, she has long explored personal and familial social histories, and the role of photography and hand-crafted textiles when representing or questioning such narratives. She has spent over a decade making exhibition projects exploring how we see, use and memorialise land and landscape. McQuarrie is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University.
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.