Artists- Eliza Pudney & Marama Groot

Having both grown up in rural Aotearoa, Eliza and Marama see ‘nature’ as a part of everyday life, not a distant spectacle of scenery. Through painting and sculpture, they criticise the historical colonial perspectives that shape the perception of land in Aotearoa. Western thought separates wilderness and civilization, nature from culture, human from animal, as if these separations exist at all. Conservation reflects this logic too, wilderness as being something fenced off and protected from human presence, as if they exist outside this ecology rather than within it. A coloniser's worldview relies on this fabricated sense of superiority. 

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