Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden 2024
Sculpture on Shore, Auckland 2023
The freedom seeker draws links to the ancients, she is part woman part angel, from the heavens and earth.
She has risen from strife and hardship through her winged from to shout out for freedom.
Derived from the ancient sculpture ‘The Winged Victory of Samothrace’ 190BC, a figurehead representing the goddess of Victory.
Here in my version, she has found her head and in turn found her voice to shout for freedom for women in our times.
She is both an ancient and an angel, seeking freedom like a bird, with no boundary.
Proclaiming her rights for all to hear.
In my practice over time, I have been working on stories of women, historical stories where I try and bring a voice to women who have gone before us. To make these women’s stories more widely known; so that as I do we learn from the past and from their experiences, courage and determination. A recent sculptural project undertaken in 2021 was made as a tribute to a young woman named Elizabeth Farr who was taken as a ‘Ship Girl’ to the Sub Antarctic Islands in 1810. This work feeds into my new sculptural proposal where figureheads, journeys, migration, refuge, rights and freedoms are explored.