Grimm’s fairy tales
The Golden Bird 1 | Oil on paper
Thousandfurs | Oil on paper
The Juniper Tree | Oil on paper
Hansel and Gretel Lost in the Woods | pencil on paper
Hansel and Gretel Lost in the Woods | Peoples Choice award 2016 Wellington Regional Art Review
Shivers | Oil on paper
The Devil with the 3 Golden Hairs | Oil on paper
Donkey Cabbage | Oil on canvas
The Singing Bone | Oil on canvas
Installation of 'Retold' (Grimm's project) at Toi Poneke Wellington. Collaboration with performance artist Kenneth Männchen who was the model for many of the paintings
Installation of 'Retold' (Grimm's project) at Toi Poneke Wellington. Collaboration with performance artist Kenneth Männchen who was the model for many of the paintings
Installation view at Toi Poneke, Wellington, NZ
Installation of 'Retold' (Grimm's project) at Toi Poneke Wellington. Collaboration with performance artist Kenneth Männchen who was the model for many of the paintings
Installation of 'Retold' (Grimm's project) at Toi Poneke Wellington. Collaboration with performance artist Kenneth Männchen who was the model for many of the paintings
Installation view at NZ Portrait Gellery, Wellington, NZ
Exhibition at the end of the artist residency at Samuel Marsden College
Opening night of the exhibition at NZ Portrait Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Installed at Lake House Arts, Takapuna, Auckland
Installed at Lake House Arts, Takapuna, Auckland
Grimm’s fairy tales project
The paintings from my Grimm Project started in 2014 and work on this project is ongoing. The paintings represent a varied array of Grimm’s fairy tales initially chosen for me at random. I invited people to give me a number which then corresponded to the page in a book of Grimm’s fairy tales – in turn choosing the story I would depict. The paintings are my response to aspects of each of the stories, rather than an attempt at a direct representation of the story. Leaving the intent of my interpretation sometimes ambiguous.
The work from this project has been exhibited as a solo show titled ‘Retold’ at Toi Poneke, Wellington, and the Lake House Arts Centre, Takapuna, Auckland. It was also the basis for my creative explorations during my artist residency at Samuel Marsden Collegiate, Wellington. It was then exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Wellington in a show title ‘Once Upon a Time’ at the conclusion of the residency.