Han Nae Kim & Margaret Bray
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Medium: Wood fired porcelain, Pumice and Wire. Expanding form, clay, fabric, pigment and natural lacquer, 2023
Dimensions: Approximately 60 x 42 x 22 (cm) & 29 x 25 x 16 (cm)
Price: $1,800
About:
Han and Margaret have been working in a collaborative sense this last year after meeting at Arthaus some years back. The work produced; kintsugi forms, has led to a new exploration into each of our own works. It is engaging to insert oneself into another person’s work – it is a feeling of uncertainty, of danger, it pushes each to go somewhere not thought of. Our work shows the connections, the contrasts and the conversations that are developing between us.
Artist Bios
Han Nae Kim
Han Nae Kim is a full time visual artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand. Kim majored in Painting at Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland and later graduated with Master of Fine Arts by a research degree at Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne. Kim also has been trained in Asian natural lacquer art through a number of international artist residencies in South Korea and China.
Margaret Bray
I have read “ART HELPS YOU IMAGINE A MORE HOPEFUL FUTURE.” A possible reason for me, that making is a constant. I use many mediums, materials and tools to stay in an evolutionary state. I love to navigate through problems, thriving as brain and hands make the decisions needed to figure out whatever it is my feelings seek to communicate. Hopeful and happy, I relax into the engaged state of flow – full attention to task, spatially aware, sensitive to sight, sounds and smells.
What I also love is technique and community. Auckland Studio Potters provide both; ceramics became my predominant medium due to its unending possibilities of process contrasted by the strict mechanical boundaries to learn and master. The community potters share is like no other.