Kirsty White
I enjoy translating my passion for wild landscape using texture and minimal tone through the printmaking process. My current etchings focus on our native bush, our treasures of the forest, nga taonga o te ngahere. The use of pattern work within my landscapes (an etched bamboo plywood block) has been inspired by Pacific Island masi and tapa cloth as well as Māori whakairo. Pattern allows me to add narrative to my work, referencing our place here in the Pacific and layering details that reflect on my research of past and present habitation.
