Approaching Home is a meeting of works by two female artist-friends from different generations, connected across the world by a shared settler colonial history. Cat is from Aotearoa and now lives in Argyll, Scotland. Christine was born in Ayrshire and her home is also in Argyll.
The artists have collaboratively produced the exhibition, focusing on carefully chosen materials, processes and iterative works to introduce and question the concept of ‘home’ through shared colonial histories, ecological pathways and endangered making traditions.
Cat's bronze, film and textile-based artworks were developed during a period of doctoral research into trans-Tasman Anzac-related narratives of national identity and collective memory. Christine’s on-going series’ of film, cloth and printworks attend to both historical and future-facing lore surrounding the growing and hand-working of plant-based textiles.
Approaching Home works with shared material culture, autotheoretical art practices and intentional knowledge-sharing, to weave enduring cross-cultural conversations.
Exhibition supported by the Jan Warburton Trust and Te Whare Hēra.