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Arwen Flowers
New Zealand artist Arwen Flowers (MVA) examines body-held and felt learning through her painting practice.
Her body’s knowledge has been acquired through domestic maintenance activities. This internal wisdom emerges as gesturally painted abstractions experienced as events. Each piece contains traces of a unique visual language encoded with references to places, people, objects, memories and experiences.
While applying and removing mediums with wiping and scrubbing motions, Arwen explores states of physical and material control. Each sensory mark results from close proximity encounters with prepared surfaces and is influenced by borrowed colour while working with and against abjection. Arwen connects to the viewer through haptic and colour-influenced affective relationships questioning notions of care, ownership and agency.
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