Dagmar Dyck & Lisa Geue
Perlen meiner Mutter
Medium: Stoneware, Jute
Price: Upon request. Email Lisa hello@lisageue.com
About:
Perlen meiner Mutter is a playful first collaboration between Dagmar Dyck and Lisa Geue, exploring the topic of ‚adornments‘ in both their cultures, which includes research, reclamation and the celebration of practices and meanings surrounding female identity and cultural rituals.
Both share German Whakapapa, both are currently living in Aotearoa and both met by chance.
Each artist would create elements mirroring their field such as sculptural elements, weaving practices, print making.
They would then come together and in putting the pieces together, create a Kaupapa between their cultures, female identities and work as artists.
Artist Bios
Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck is a New Zealand artist of Tongan and German descent.
Dyck completed a Bachelor for Fine Arts through Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts in 1995. She was the first woman of Tongan descent to do so.
Dyck’s prints and paintings are often inspired by her cultural heritage and explore the textile practices of Tonga.
Dagmar holds several governance roles and is a Council Board member (Ministerial Appointment) for The Teaching Council of Aotearoa, New Zealand. She sits on the NCEA Pacific Peoples Review Panel for the Ministry of Education, the Pacific Advisory Group for Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and is on the Executive Committee for Aotearoa NZ Association of Art Educators and Aotearoa Tongan Teachers Association.
Lisa Geue *born in East Germany, went to Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig 2013-2019. She is a multidisciplinary artist currently working with clay, creating vessels inspired by her ancient ancestors and organic looking sculptures with a focus on form and experimental glazing. Her work can be described as the reclamation of the female identity in a generation that is still fighting to bring down walls.
She creates in a fragmental and experimental way, constantly pushing the boundaries of the material she is using.
She is currently Artist in Residence at ASP and will be Artist in Residence at Sturt Gallery and Studios, Australia and Driving Creek, Coromandel.