Installations: MARK MITCHELL NADINE SPALTER DARRYL FROST PAERAU CORNEAL KATE MCINTYRE OWEN BARTLETT ISOBEL THOM BLUE BLACK
Bespeckled celebrates form, colour and pattern. A collision of two and three dimensions; here painting meets sculpture, and the individual pieces are not immediately obvious as they blend with their surroundings. The walls and hanging ceramics are coated in a glossy visceral shade of pink and covered in varying shades of aqua dots. I am exploring the idea of camouflage and blending in to stay safe, flattening the sculptural plane and merging figure with ground.
Janna van Hasselt
Janna van Hasselt was born in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1980 and now resides in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
She gained a BFA (printmaking) from Ilam School of Fine Arts, Ōtautahi Christchurch (2004) and, as a recipient of a Fullbright Award an MFA (visual art) from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (2014).
She has exhibited throughout Aotearoa New Zealand; numerous times included in the Portage Ceramic Award and filled the Ngātahi stand at the 2023 Aotearoa Art Fair. Janna has undertaken residencies in the Netherlands (painting) and Belgium, UK, and the USA (printmaking) and has created installations at the Dowse Art Museum and The Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead.
