Upcoming

Tracing Intricacies

Webb's Wellington

The four artists in Tracing Intricacies use a variety of mediums to visualise and immortalise the fleeting and the invisible. These works are all mediated by time both in the making and the conversations woven through them. Featuring work by Connah Podmore, Kate van der Drift, Karen Rubado, Helen Reynolds.

Opening 20 March

Exhibition runs until 6 April 2024.

 

A solo show (details to come)

Opening 16 July 2024

16 July - 26 August 2024
From out of the Blue Studio Gallery, Opunake

 

Karen Rubado is a Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland artist who is interested in the aggregation and transformation of materials through hand-making. Her enthusiasm lies in the connections between intention and action, the real and imagined, and the imperfection that often characterises the handmade. Inspired by techniques of extemporising within a structure, her weaving practice encourages the unexpected and allows for spontaneity as a catalyst for discovery. She sees this as a subtle form of opposition to the authorial powers of tradition and the expectations emanating from both craft and contemporary art conventions.

broken (detail)