CREATING SPACE
“ I like to create things that exist in spaces - spaces between - not quite in this space or that - something in between.”
My creative life has been filled with many wonderful spaces.
After well over a decade teaching and creating in the NZ education sector, I entered one of the largest spaces imaginable - the vast Australian outback.
Space in the desert has been rightfully described by many creative minds as both physical and metaphysical.
Certainly the Australian Indigenous artists (with whom I had the pleasure of working) would express it in these terms.
‘space between’ continues to occupy my imagination and is at the centre of all that I create - between one social construct and another, between this world and that, between this country, culture, philosophy and another.
I find myself forever perched precariously on the middle stair.
