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J A N E H E N Z E L L : 2001
The native flora and fauna imagery is derived from historical paintings of botanical studies which were made largely by New Zealand colonial women. They gathered in their leisure time painting flowers from the garden. I allude to this largely unheralded tradition of painting with intent to acknowledge and engage the manner in which women practitioners have been historically constituted.
For me the act of painting is located within that mesmerising tug of war
between –
that which is already known and that which one does not yet know how to make
between –
the moment and the pull of memory
between –
an elusive perceptual or imitative reality and a palpable material one
between –
an inchoate restless and a desire to rest semblance and order from that which is unruly.