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Saint Kentigern 2024 Inaugural Art Exhibition
Explore the captivating world of New Zealand contemporary art at the Saint Kentigern 2024 Inaugural art exhibition. The exhibition includes work from 50-60 other New Zealand Artists. Sophie is displaying three unique watercolour creations that blend natural heritage and her bicultural identity in Aotearoa. The opening night is on the 18th October, 6:30 - 9:30pm at Saint Kenigern College, 130 Pakuranga rd, Pakuranga, Auckland 2010 .
Artist bio:
Sophie Kate Foster is a multi-disciplinary and bicultural artist, based in Auckland. She explores the ‘Post-colonial identity’ in Aotearoa through researching her own Pakeha and Māori lineage. Her practice analyses cultural hybridity by forming connections between natural and social heritage.
Birds are considered tapu (sacred) to the Māori and are frequently mentioned in folklore. She incorporates a combination of Māori taonga and Pakeha traditions, critiquing the encounters between indigene, bird and coloniser in Aotearoa.
Sophie Kate Foster, 2022. Hinenuitepō and the Tīwakawaka. Watercolour on paper.
WHERE & WHEN
18th October, 2024
6:30PM - 9:30PM
Saint Kentigern College
130 Pakuranga Road,
Pakuranga, Auckland 2010
GRADUATION SHOW - 2017
Sophie Kate Foster’s body of work features in the BFA graduate show at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, on November the 22nd, 2017. Inspired by New Zealand's native flora and fauna, she explores her cultural hybridity in contemporary Aotearoa with a poetic edge. Foster uses paint as a means for narrating the symbiotic relationships between Māori and bird, as well as the depiction of birds in Māori folklore.
Foster appropriates paintings as objects of cultural identity. The exhibition activates encounter that reminisce pre-colonial past and bicultural present. Foster's subject matter indicates implicit environmental concerns surrounding our native birdlife and the impact of colonization.
Sophie Foster, 2017. Untitled. [Digital collage, dimensions variable]. Collection of the artist.
This exhibition also includes the work of fellow graduates:
Dana Chisholm, Bobbie Gray, Arvin Alexander, Peter Walsh, Vincent Fasi, Peng Chen, Clare Gemima, Tabitha Van Der Westhuizen, Tammy Chamnivikaipong, Sophie An, Emily Bray, Britti Absolum, Chalita Uttasart, Sam Liu, Simon Lundqvist, Dale Zou.
WHERE & WHEN
22nd November, 2017
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Whitecliffe Fine Arts Studios
(Pearce Gallery)
130 St George's Bay Rd
Parnell, Auckland