Past Event
‘Ka maumahara te uku (the clay remembers)’ – Opening Celebration
detail of artwork – part of ‘Ka maumahara te uku’
10.04
5:30pm
Come celebrate Jess Nicholson's new exhibition 'Ka maumahara te uku (the clay remembers)'
On behalf of the CoCA Board, we are delighted to invite you to Ka maumahara te uku (the clay remembers) a solo exhibition by Jess Nicholson.
Clay remembers being pounded flat or rolled into a ball, in the same way that it remembers being the basalt rocks of a mighty mauka or the silt swept along the bottom of a braided awa.
In this solo exhibition, Nicholson continues to explore recycled, reclaimed and collected whenua materials through laborious and intimate ceramic processes to create the work.
They pay particular attention to the non-linear transformation of the materials – considering this as a metaphor for the process of reconnecting, belonging, and feeling at home in one’s body and land.
They investigate this tension and discomfort through the old pottery adage ‘clay remembers’. This saying, usually used in a technical context, also speaks to the te ao Māori belief that we are born from, belong, and ultimately will return to the land.
Ka maumahara te uku (the clay remembers) is on at Ō Papa Gallery from 11 April until 17 May.
