Creative Practice

Honoured that my work 'Keep Care: If birds can see blue' was selected as a finalist in the Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award 2025, over on Waiheke Island.

Out of 179 entries from across Aotearoa New Zealand, 35 works were selected for exhibition. This year’s selector and judge is Julia Waite, Curator of New Zealand Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Keep Care explores mending as repair and disruption. Using fallen birds’ nests and visible mending techniques, the work considers how beauty, strength, and care can coexist with loss, and asks us to reflect on the unintended consequences of trying to repair what may be beyond control.

Congratulations to all the other finalists and winners!

https://www.waihekeartgallery.org.nz/shop/exhibition-artwork/keep-care-if-birds-can-see-blue/

Engage, Motivate, and Persuade, EMBA weekend number two, done and dusted.

Lots of fun and stepping up, true to Fashion Runway styles, we 'Made it work!'

Big thank you to my team, Oliver Johnson and Rufat Bunyat! Thank you Simon Shen CA for the photos 💪

Our first day consisted of individual presentations on a topic of our choice. My presentation, Keep Care, discussed bringing together my creative practice and leadership practice.

Keep Care is my foundation of relational and mana enhancing leadership, and I shared my research question:

How does Keep Care translate into a practice of leadership and relationship building?

I pitched a conversation, ending with; What does Keep Care look like in your leadership spaces?

University

Super super excited that Fabric-a-brac is coming to Whangārei!

This post is for all my textile makers out there.

I'll be away on an EMBA weekend (sob) so I have big FOMO already. Sign up to destash or shop for some new material for your making.

More deets:

Fabric-a-Brac is a market that is about ‘things to make things’ focusing on fabric and sewing related items, for all those that love to craft, sew, quilt, knit, make things and generally like being creative. There are always vintage treasures and bargains to be had! No finished goods are sold. Fabric-a-Brac is held in 10 locations nationally but is new to Whangarei & Northland. Stallholders pay a fee for the stall which goes to Hospice, but any profits they make they keep. Applications are open for stallholders.

- Saturday April 4, 2025
- 10am-1pm
- Te Ora Hou, 104 Corks Road, Tikipunga, Whangarei

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/8198556276936410

Stall holder forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciCvMbWdPDJZhhMXaDNgWPvRdpIjoD4zp9tSzytWPN5OA9ig/viewform