I have an obsession with collecting the unseen and discarded from my daily domestic life and surroundings. I find possibility in these materials and transform them into precious, wearable pieces. In their new form, they speak to those who recognise traces of their history, touching on domesticity, gender, consumerism, and self-prescription through colour-coding.
I am looking to HS6 to help me navigate my post-study making with more clarity and refine my research.
Attai Chen is my mentor as recommended by the committee. He was only a video away, and I found many parallels in his approach so I’m very excited to be his mentee.
Nikki Perry‘s posts:
Warming up
Again I am drawing a blank about what I’ve done in the last month and a half. Life has messed with me again. Interference at its best. We have just moved back into a Level 1 Covid restriction in Auckland which means we can virtually go about our every day lives with...
The doing
Blank. Full moon...lack of sleep. Just spent the last two and a half weeks in Level 3 lockdown again in Auckland, New Zealand after an outbreak of Covid-19 from a mystery source. This time we were a little unprepared. Our heroic Covid-free world status was...
Channelling Meret
I truly have no idea what I have done since I wrote my last blog. I’ve been looking back at Meret Oppenheim’s compositions, marvelling at Keith Sonnier’s colours and neons, trawling through Hilary Mantel’s latest novel The Mirror and the Light. The daily explorations...
No sense of order
The world is undergoing a rather large task. And failing miserably in so many places with Covid-19. What a mess! Here in New Zealand our government shut our borders quickly to give our health professionals time to prepare for the unknown and uncontrollable future. As...
Nikki Perry‘s images:
Possum (headlights), 2019, series tg Silver, Plastic. 84mm x 20mm (brooches)
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Wobble, 2017 tg Silver, Plastic, Elastic. 102mm x 102mm x 42mm H (brooch)
See, 2017 tg Silver, Plastic, Silicon. 75mm x 75mm (brooch)
Swirl, 2016 Stg Silver, Plastic. 166mm x 132mm
