Three Janet Frame Zines

‘There were now rows of houses and acres of concrete, while the once wet wooded roadsides were treeless.’

‘I felt I was seeing a new kind of greed for whatever could be touched, measured, seen and priced.’

‘…and no one was saying what or whom the land belonged to before the famous reclamation.’

Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City, 1985, the third part of the New Zealand writer’s autobiography. She had returned to New Zealand after travelling and living in Europe, including England, for several years.

The images are my own photographs of a marginal, self-wilded area, threatened with development, near where I live.

Plants and Text

When I paint and draw plants, I find a sense of communion with them as beings, I sense their energy, which emanates beyond their outlines, the colours leach into their surroundings. Getting down low and really looking at plants is an act of love, of devotion to the world and my possible place in it.

Eye of the Storm

Exhibited in 2019, these paintings and photographs explored feelings of liminality and a sense of the uncanny, of reality having been breeched and re-set, following a traumatic accident and near death experience.

Sight + Loss

The trauma of sudden sight loss. These fragile artist’s books explore the experience of not seeing well, of oblique and difficult to grasp information, the brain trying to make sense of stimuli.