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Left to right: Tupuānuku*X* pastel crayon, pencil, ink on paper, by Piet Nieuwland.
Tupuānuku, one of the Matariki star cluster, is associated with plants harvested from the soil.
Te Pō Nui (The great night), Te Pō Roa (The long night), Te Pō Tangotango (The intense dark night),
digital photographs on 3mm thick aluminum, 40 x 57 cm each, by Ashleigh Zimmerman.
These titles refer to same phrases in the Māori creation story starting with existence before existence.
Tupuānuku pastel crayon, pencil, ink by Piet Nieuwland.
As a child poem on a3 by Piet Nieuwland.
Photo: Lenny Murupaenga, Creative Northland Curator
Tracking down the European Bison, Poland 1993 / 2015
by Natascha J. A. Rodenburg
Ashleigh Zimmerman, Whangārei, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau
Astrid Moors, Rotterdam, The Netherlands astridmoors.nl
Bev Goodwin, Tāmaki-makau-rau brickbaysculpture.co.nz/bev-goodwin
Carmen Bolanos Reekers, Vriezenveen, The Netherlands (El Salvador)
Chris Schreuder, Whangārei, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau facebook.com/chris.schreuder
Cle Tukuitonga, Ōtangaroa, The Far North, Te Tai Tokerau
Connie Davis, Northland, Te Tai Tokerau
Dana LaMonda The Hague, The Netherlands danalamonda.com
Denise Corden, The Far North, Te Tai Tokerau
Edie Chappell, Whakapirau, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau facebook.com/ediechappellartist
Jason Povey, Whangārei
Jocelyn Friis, Mangawhai jocelynfriisart.com
Jeff Thomson, Helensville jeffthomson.co.nz
Jessy Rahman, The Hague, The Netherlands (Suriname) thehagueartists.nl
Kat Aucamp Tāmaki-makau-rau / Northland | Te Tai Tokerau instagram.com/notes_on_aucamp
Kristine Amato Whangārei, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau
Liam Astbury Whangārei (Dargaville), Northland | Te Tai Tokerau
Phil Dadson, Tāmaki-makau-rau thearts.co.nz
Piet Nieuwland, Whangārei, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau pietnieuwland.com
Pietertje van Splunter, The Hague, The Netherlands pietertje.net
Rob Carter, Whangārei, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau
Maya, The Hague, The Netherlands (Indonesia)
Maria Stanculescu, The Hague, The Netherlands
Michiel Teeuw, Groningen, The Netherlands michielteeuw.com
Murray Silverstone, Helensville
Natascha J. A. Rodenburg, The Netherlands natascharodenburg.com
Rudi Struik, Leiden, The Netherlands rudi-struik.com
Sen McGlinn, Kawakawa, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau sculpturebysen.wordpress.com
Sonja van Kerkhoff, Kawakawa, Te Tai Tokerau / The Hague, The Netherlands sonjavank.com
Sophia Dadson, Tāmaki-makau-rau
Stephen Suess, Kohukohu, Te Tai Tokerau
Sue Vincent Hill, Wellsford
Susanne Khouri, Waipu / Tāmaki-makau-rau susannekhouri.co.nz
Suzanne White, Kaitaia area, The Far North
Ursula Christel, Warkworth (South Africa) ursulachristel.com
Left to right: Two works, inks on paper, 2024 by Phil Dadson. he kākano photographic print on a4 by Cle Tukuitonga. I AM A SEED. School holiday visit to the Auckland Museum. White lettering represents the breath of air shared between 12yr old nephew and ancestor as they hongi. White outlines represent the mauri (life force).
Double self-portrait digital print on a5 by Maya The Hague, The Netherlands
The Vortex of fallen leaves digital print on a4 by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Tracking down the European Bison, Poland, 2 works out of a series of eleven, pencil rubbings, photograph, inks, text by Natascha J. A. Rodenburg
Buzzy Beehive, 3 colour Risograph Print, A3, by
Jason Povey.
For the trees, inks, acrylics & shellac on canvas, by Denise Corden
Boom (Tree), acrylic and card on hardboard, 10 x 15 cm
by Pietertje van Splunter
Australian Fires, framed photograph by Liam Astbury
Mantel, Inks, acrylics, fabric & shellac on canvas by Denise Corden
Mending Time, 2024, acrylic, charcoal, spray paint, shellac, framed canvas construction, antique coat hanger by Ursula Christel. A reworked art piece from 2003. Exploring themes of slippage and repair, loss and restoration.
Papa René in Retrospect, two elements from the 'Being on the Way' project by Dana LaMonda.
Tracking down the European Bison, Poland, a series of eleven, pencil rubbings, photograph, inks, text by Natascha J. A. Rodenburg
The pencil rubbings of the bark of the trees in the photographs in the Białowieża Forest in Poland.
The ink lines symbolize her 1993 journey through this forest by bicycle from Warsaw which was a three day cycle ride away in the only rainforest in Europe with 1/7th in Poland and 6/7th of this in Belarus. The photographs and rubbings were made in 1993 during her quest to find the European Bison. At that time this was the only place left where they were living wild in Europe. She first saw these bison in captivity and then in the middle of a track in the distance.
As a teenager she sang and danced in a Polish cultural group in Heerlen, a city in the south of the Netherlands where there was a large community of migrants working in the mines. From this she knew of the bison in this forest. She started this work in 1993 and 22 years later, while in Northland, NZ, in 2015, completed this work.
Still: filmed by Rob Carter. Transition Zones, 20 min performance.
A collaborative performance, score and documentation
Concept: Michiel Teeuw, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Ursula Christel, Sue Vincent Hill
Photography: Michiel Teeuw (Schiermonnikoog shoreline, The Netherlands featuring the coastal crustose lichen, Caloplaca marina), Sonja van Kerkhoff (Kawakawa, Aotearoa, New Zealand)
Score arrangement: Sue Vincent Hill and Sonja van Kerkhoff
Performance on 28 Sept: Sue Vincent Hill, Ursula Christel, Piet Nieuwland, Lisa Young and Sonja van Kerkhoff with audience participation on stones
Video of performance, soundscape and score: link to be added here in October
A score is formed from:
Photographs by Dutch-based artist Michiel Teeuw taken during a walk on the shore of the island Schiermonnikoog (part of the Wadden area which is currently used for extracting gas).
And photographs of trespassing fill dumped above and into a wetland in suburban Kawakawa (Oct/Nov 2022) by a new neighbour. The saga of polluting the edges of a Northland wetland, continues: See: sonjavank.com/dump
This collaborative work responds to the theme of Cycles of Time, and reflects on a time when lichen and wetlands were not widely recognized as vital ecological transition zones.
Michiel Teeuw, The Netherlands, Ursula Christel, Sue Vincent Hill, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Aotearoa | New Zealand
michielteeuw.nl | www.ursulachristel.com | www.sonjavank.com
a poem by Piet Nieuwland and Pete Seegar's song, Inch by inch sung by Sue Vincent Hill, and a speed tour
Left to Right: Planet B, 4 colour Risograph print by Jason Povey; BOI Racer, Be Sweet, wood, acrylic, gems, Hot wheels, by Kat Aucamp; Dissipation / the Unveiling of Experience, "After all, it is in the space between veiling and unveiling that we reveal ourselves." - Caroline Levine, found frame, upcycled carved wood, repurposed bridal lace, Japanese handmade paper, scrim, shellac, reworked mixed-media acrylic painting on canvas fragments by Ursula Christel;
Untitled print created in the Dali AI programme with the instruction, a Rousseau-like setting for a spaceship by Stephen Suess; Ceramic and glazed object by Rob Carter.
Detail: Transition Zones, 20 min performance.
Detail:Transition Zones, performance, score, and documentation by Michiel Teeuw, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Ursula Christel and Sue Vincent Hill.
Image created in the Dali AI programme with the instruction, a spaceship in a Rousseau forest by Stephen Suess.
Detail of Shorelines, 2024, text and design based on the lichen, Caloplaca marina by Michiel Teeuw
Transition Zones documentation by Michel Teeuw (Schiermonnikoog shoreline, The Netherlands featuring the coastal crustose lichen, Caloplaca marina) and Sonja van Kerkhoff (Kawakawa, Aotearoa, New Zealand of unpermited fill dumped into a wetland)
Michiel Teeuw provided imagery of thriving coastal ecosystems in the Netherlands with instructions to create a score. New Zealand-based Ursula Christel, Sue Vincent Hill and Sonja van Kerkhoff, developed this into a suite of images, a performance and a video.
This collaborative work combines universal and abstract references to the intricacies of ecosystems with specifics about nurturing and destruction, about life and death, for an ecological transition zone upstream of a wetland beside the Kawakawa Waiomio River. The death and destruction result from large quantities of spoil dumped by a property developer into and above the wetland.
Planet B, 4 colour Risograph print by Jason Povey
BOI Racer, Be Sweet, wood, acrylic, gems, Hot wheels, by Kat Aucamp
Shorelines, 2024, are pages of text and design based on the lichen, Caloplaca marina by Michiel Teeuw
The texts, excerpts of an artistic research project, are fragments by authors from Suriname & Aruba reference the shore/coast/riverbank. The authors of these texts write both in Dutch (the colonizing language) as well as Papiamentu/o, Sranantongo and Sarnámi Hindustáni. In an effort to circulate these texts, Teeuw included their own English translations - as a pragmatic service rather than as a literary work.