Painting with Ōtepoti Dunedin : Artist in Residence at the Dunedin School of Art 2021

• Published in: Scope. Art 2022 (23), p.33-40
• Main Author: Watson, Amanda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Artist-in-residence programs; Color in art; Gardens in art; Influence; Painting, New Zealand; Social practice (Art)
• ISSN: 1177-5661; 1177-5653
• DOI: 10.34074/scop.1023026

Presents a report by the 2021 Artist in Residence at the Dunedin School of Art in which she reflects on some of her experiences of exploring various parts of Ōtepoti Dunedin, engaging with its arts community and how these encounters influenced her painting practice. Informs that she lived on-site and worked in a studio alongside the art students during the two-month residency. Talks about attending a retrospective exhibition by the late artist Joanna Margaret Paul at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and visiting the Hōtere Garden Oputae in Port Chalmers and viewing sculptures by the late Ralph Hōtere, as well as viewing the works of other local artists. Explains that the COVID-19 lockdown happened two weeks into her residency, which led her to visit Dunedin Botanic Garden daily and notes how this repetition manifested itself in her work when painting from consolidated memories. Comments on her experimentation to introduce coloured ink into her paintings. Reflects on painting in Ōtepoti Dunedin in the context of new materialist theory, where she worked ‘in collaboration’ with the land. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.