01 / 03
2019
Oil on canvas board, custom kahikatea frame
347mm (H) x 270mm (W) x 45mm (D)
Framed
This painting is 1 of 2 remaining pieces from the beginning of my walk into art as full-time mahi back in 2019-2020. I really began to experiment with minimal mark-making to communicate the wairua, spirit, of a place and reflects a fairly monumental and courageous shift towards colourism.
Mary Spacapan’s work is strongly gestural—using colour, composition and rich, buildable texture to explore the animated nature of the whenua. Painter, writer and sculptor, she creates as she experiences the world: tiny inputs collected, placed—a curation of moments over time. Every mark is movement.