Collage Your Mother’s Day Card – Free Event

World Collage Day is just around the corner, falling on Saturday, May 13 this year. I usually celebrate it by organizing a community collage creation. Last year’s Avondale’s community collage, with the kind support of Whau the People, is proudly displayed at the Avondale Library, while the Titirangi community collage from two years ago is on exhibit at the Titirangi Community House. This year, since World Collage Day coincides with Mother’s Day weekend, I am thrilled to collaborate with Upstairs Gallery at Lopdell House, offering a free event: “Collage Your Mother’s Day Card.”
Mothers hold a special place in our hearts, and what better way to show appreciation than by gifting a unique, handmade card?
All are welcome to join us any time between 2 and 4 pm. We will provide all materials needed to create a personalized card from upcycled magazines and books onto coloured bristol cards. Additionally, you are welcome to bring your own images from home to add a personal touch. No need to sign up; see you there!

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Intuitive Collage Workshops at Shiloh, Onehunga

Intuitive Collage is a relaxing and highly therapeutic art medium; it’s a great tool to process difficult feelings, quieten the mind, and elicit a state of deep relaxation, with the subsequent relief of stress and anxiety. It allows self-expression for those with no prior experience in the arts. For creatives, however, collage can be uniquely inspiring and means of artistic exploration.
In this course, we will make several collages from printed material. Participants are encouraged to be spontaneous and intuitive; This creative process is flowing, forgiving, and without technical challenges whatsoever. This course runs in an inclusive, relaxing, and supportive manner and has a non-judgmental approach – there is no right or wrong; it’s all about individual aesthetic preferences.
Cost: $60 for all four classes
Adults, 13+
Youth. 13-18 years of age – gold coin donation per class
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Intuitive Collage Workshops March 2023

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March 2023 Workshops

I’m running a couple of workshops in March. These collage workshops will enable you to relax your mind and allow your hands and heart to guide the way. All materials are provided. Sunday 19th, at my studio, out west and Tuesday 21st evening at Skar Image Lab, Kingsland. Book your place here

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To celebrate International Women’s Day coming up soon, I am offering two newly printed art journals – Justice (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Smash the Patriarchy (the OG wonderwoman) on my online shop. These are luxurious art journals, suitable for writing and drawing, with 120 blank pages of an uncoated art paper stock, 80 GSM.
Size 180×240 mm.
Click here to order yours
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Sitting Bull

A commission I have been working on in the last few weeks.

Paper collage on wood, 45 cm diameter.

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Collage Your Xmas Cards at Studio One Toi Tū

Two Collage your Xmas Cards events are coming up this week: Tomorrow, Tuesday, at Grey Lynn Library pop in anytime between 2 and 5pm. And on Thursday Studio One Toi Tū 238 Krd, pop in anytime between 5 and 8pm. Both events are kindly supported by Studio One Toi Tū and are free. Suitable for all ages. Make a unique and personalized card for your loved ones this Xmas from upcycled materials.

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Collage Your Xmas Cards at Grey Lynn Library

Join me at the Grey Lynn Library next Tuesday to Collage your Xmas cards – FREE EVENT for all ages.
Pop in anytime between 2 and 5 pm to create personal collaged cards for your loved ones.
All materials are provided, but you can bring anything you’d like to collage with from home too ✂️✂️✂️
Kindly hosted by Studio One Toi Tū
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Merata Mita Collage On display

My collage of Merata Mita is now on display at the Sidewalk Gallery at Studio One Toi Tu, Ponsonby, Auckland.
She’s there for the next two weeks; pop over anytime, day or night.
Meet the artist on Saturday 8 Oct 1-3 pm. I would love to see you there.

Artist Statment: The work of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita is pivotal to a global movement of indigenous cinematography and marks a significant chapter in Aotearoa’s history. Mita was the first filmmaker to reflect a Māori identity on screen. She also contributed to mana wahine by discussing Māori women’s position in the arts in New Zealand. Her work has influenced indigenous filmmakers worldwide.

After viewing the documentary, “Merata, How Mum Decolonized The Screen,” I felt touched and inspired by her story and wanted to shine more light on her lifework and legacy.

This work is my tribute to and celebration of Mita. She is placed in the space between Papatūānuku, and Ranginui, surrounded by indigenous art from Aotearoa, the Pacific, and America, projecting her vision for indigenous filmography. 

As I created this collage from hundreds of paper cuttings, I reflected on Merata as a Warrior, Activist, Feminist, Filmmaker, Mother, her courage, and her ahead-of-her-time vision.

Many thanks for the vital advice from Kathryn Graham and the kind support from Hepi Mita.

 

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Merata Mita

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