Otautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand

Kia ora Everyone,

I’m taking part in an exhibition at Eastside Gallery called Art As Proof of Life with my work Ode To Aotearoa Revisited.
Ode to Aotearoa Revisited 2026 is about the profoundly life-changing fact of having immigrated to Aotearoa NZ from England.
Like its predecessors on this subject, it started with a poem I wrote while on a road trip:

We came, we found you, in 1982 –
Gold and blue.
We explored, lovingly, all over you –
Greens and golds of every hue.

As an artist, I not only created one original art work (shown at Eastside in 2022 as an installation called Ode To Aotearoa) expressing how I feel about coming here and being here; I have continued to develop the concept and how it can be physically realised, expressing how I feel in different and better ways (including as 4 separate suspended sculptures at Oxford Gallery toi o Waimakariri), experimenting with materials (mostly recycled) and processes. It’s a work I’ve returned to again and again, reshaping it, rethinking it, letting it shift. Much of my art behaves this way: Partly because I want to reuse previous art and recycle materials; partly because there always more ways to say something or solve artistic problems.

Now, it is a reasonably flat, 2 sided and in relief up to a depth of 300mm, new version which is hanging near the wall in the Art as Proof of Life exhibition but certainly has 2 sides, can be turned around or hung – at your place – so it can be walked around. (You can go round to have a sneak peek at the other side even at the exhibition.)

Jude

Welcome to my ART FOR YOU website which I see as an ongoing, sometimes changing exhibition.

Here I can show what I’ve been doing, arranged in themes, with some explanations about what, when and why. I hope you enjoy looking and I welcome comments, including constructive criticism, about the work or its presentation.

Much of the work is for sale; some has been discounted from previous prices; I may negotiate on some pieces – try me! Prices are all in New Zealand dollars. I welcome enquiries about you showing my work for me in your gallery, or other public place, and also about hiring my work. And you could commission me to make something special for you!

Please contact me from the Contact page.

Welcome to my website – have a look, enjoy and maybe buy or commission something specially for you…….