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In this solo exhibition, Ōtepoti-based ceramic artist Jess Nicholson explores 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 until 17 May.