Poster by Lee Richardson
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Kettle Park is directly behind the sand dunes of St Clair beach and, before it was filled in as a landfill and capped to become a sports field, it was a large lagoon, semi-open to incoming and outgoing ocean tides.
Drawn to see(a) brings together recent and newly made artworks by Rozana Lee tracing connections between unfolding environmental catastrophes in two geographically distant places; here, at Kettle Park in South Ōtepoti, and Central Asia, at the former-shoreline of the Aral Sea and in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan. Lee recently spent time in Central Asia on a mobile artist and researcher residency that travelled between Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – the region where the silk road once passed.
Lee’s artworks, a combination of moving image, textiles, photography and reading resources, invite people to consider how these catastrophes have unfolded, and what implications our actions have on future environments.
Rozana Lee
Rozana Lee is a multidisciplinary artist of Indonesian-Chinese heritage based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts. Her research is centred on the ideas around sense of place, migration, belonging, post-colonial identity and cross-cultural mobility. Working across textile, painting, video and installation, she explores global histories of encounter and exchange that allow for something shared, both within and beyond existing national and geographic boundaries. Recent exhibitions include: Spring is as sweet as shirotsumekusa, Studio Kura (2024), Memory lines, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi (2024) and Sekali pendatang, tetap pendatang, Te Uru (2023). She has also been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (2024) and an artist resident with the Zhelezka Project, Central Asia (2023).
Kettle Park is directly behind the sand dunes of St Clair beach and, before it was filled in as a landfill and capped to become a sports field, it was a large lagoon, semi-open to incoming and outgoing ocean tides.
Drawn to see(a) brings together recent and newly made artworks by Rozana Lee tracing connections between unfolding environmental catastrophes in two geographically distant places; here, at Kettle Park in South Ōtepoti, and Central Asia, at the former-shoreline of the Aral Sea and in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan. Lee recently spent time in Central Asia on a mobile artist and researcher residency that travelled between Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – the region where the silk road once passed.
Lee’s artworks, a combination of moving image, textiles, photography and reading resources, invite people to consider how these catastrophes have unfolded, and what implications our actions have on future environments.
Rozana Lee
Rozana Lee is a multidisciplinary artist of Indonesian-Chinese heritage based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts. Her research is centred on the ideas around sense of place, migration, belonging, post-colonial identity and cross-cultural mobility. Working across textile, painting, video and installation, she explores global histories of encounter and exchange that allow for something shared, both within and beyond existing national and geographic boundaries. Recent exhibitions include: Spring is as sweet as shirotsumekusa, Studio Kura (2024), Memory lines, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi (2024) and Sekali pendatang, tetap pendatang, Te Uru (2023). She has also been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (2024) and an artist resident with the Zhelezka Project, Central Asia (2023).
