Shona Mackenzie - Homelands and Heartlands Exhibition
Wed, 15 Nov
|The Incubator Gallery
Shona is a visual collector, wherever she goes she collects images of the beauty she sees in our natural world. These get squirrelled away in some haphazard filing system in her brain. The images choose their own time to reappear in her work.
Time & Location
15 Nov 2023, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
The Incubator Gallery, 17th Ave West, Tauranga South, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand
About the event
As a 1st generation Kiwi on her mother’s side, She, like many New Zealanders have a split concept of home. Despite having lived in New Zealand for most of her life, Scotland is her heart home. It is the home of her ancestors and the land to which she feels her soul is tied. This deep connection to the land and past generations grows stronger as the years go by.
Shona shares with us her concept behind this amazing exhibition:
As a young adult I spent ten years living in Scotland and reconnecting with my extended family, the culture and most of all the wild landscape of the West Coast. Despite my deep gratitude for being able to call New Zealand home and my love for this beautiful land, images of the Scottish landscape continue to emerge, unbidden within my work.
In this exhibition Heartlands and Homelands I offer…
