2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Northart, Auckland
22 May - 3 June 2023

exploring the pleasures and anxieties of the sub-urban: what is allowed, what is excluded… and what could be.

Iteration 22 includes work by Philippa Blair, Stella Brennan, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, The Estate of L.Budd, Inga Fillary, Natalie Tozer, Teresa Peters, Maree Horner, Ekaterina Dimieva, Monique Lacey, Rebecca Wallis, Kelly Pretty, Janet Mazenier, Lillie Balfour, Rose Meyer, Robyn Walton, Jana Wood, Michelle Mayn, Kiriana O’Connell, Jessica Douglas, Lucy Boermans, Karen Rubado, Tori Beeche, Susan Nelson, Melanie Arnold and Caitlin Devoy.

2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, found pohutukawa root, acrylic coated thread, silver wire, glass bead, wire, matt wax medium
Amorphous (detail)
2023
Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, found pohutukawa root, acrylic coated thread, silver wire, glass bead, wire, matt wax medium

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Amorphous (detail)

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Bamboo, Pokinkini (dried rolled harakeke/New Zealand flax), Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, driftwood
Conjoined
2023
Bamboo, Pokinkini (dried rolled harakeke/New Zealand flax), Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, driftwood
3500 x 200 x 10

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Conjoined
2023

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), driftwood, found feather, silver wire, Swarovski crystal, ground shell
Peripheres (wood detail) ; Fragment (Background right)
2023
Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), driftwood, found feather, silver wire, Swarovski crystal, ground shell
82H x 45 W x 7 D

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Peripheres (Left); Fragment (Right)
2023

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Peripheres (Left); Fragment (Right)

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Found fishbones (unknown species), muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), houhere (Hoheria, ribbonwood), adhesive
Fragment (detail)
2023
Found fishbones (unknown species), muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), houhere (Hoheria, ribbonwood), adhesive
120H (Variable) x 11W x 25D

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Fragment (detail)

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
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Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
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