Ava Trevella, Eagle (detail), 2023.
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The dreams come and go
I’ve been perched up for a whilst
We’re in a noiseless world
Just sleepers, sleeping
Leaving fronds
Unturned
I appreciate my surroundings
I wish for nothing
Whilst bathing in the hills
In the magenta glow
A furry vest
Inside an eagle’s nest
The search for an object that’s shinier
Creating an equal amongst the weight
A reasoning beyond the fate
Flying higher
The hills glow wider
They're bathed
They're bathing
In the southern light
That special kind.
Ava Trevella is an artist currently based in Ōtepoti, although recently completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam. Her practice is studio-led, using the medium of paint to explore themes of self, matter and place in different intensities and on different levels. Her work looks to the smaller lives of animals, the poetics of the human every day, and the various atmospheric spaces of inhabitation encountered in waking and sleeping states.
Eagle is an offering, or a glimpse into a different thought and pace, which is a culmination of the last few months of the artist’s studio practice across Aotearoa.
The artist's relationship to paint stems from her relationship with place. Having moved around the country frequently over the past few years, the paintings are a navigation of those experiences and grapples. Working bodily and intuitively, characters emerge in the paintings instantaneously through action and connection with the materials, her thoughts and the environment she situates herself.
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- University of Auckland
- Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
The dreams come and go
I’ve been perched up for a whilst
We’re in a noiseless world
Just sleepers, sleeping
Leaving fronds
Unturned
I appreciate my surroundings
I wish for nothing
Whilst bathing in the hills
In the magenta glow
A furry vest
Inside an eagle’s nest
The search for an object that’s shinier
Creating an equal amongst the weight
A reasoning beyond the fate
Flying higher
The hills glow wider
They're bathed
They're bathing
In the southern light
That special kind.
Ava Trevella is an artist currently based in Ōtepoti, although recently completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam. Her practice is studio-led, using the medium of paint to explore themes of self, matter and place in different intensities and on different levels. Her work looks to the smaller lives of animals, the poetics of the human every day, and the various atmospheric spaces of inhabitation encountered in waking and sleeping states.
Eagle is an offering, or a glimpse into a different thought and pace, which is a culmination of the last few months of the artist’s studio practice across Aotearoa.
The artist's relationship to paint stems from her relationship with place. Having moved around the country frequently over the past few years, the paintings are a navigation of those experiences and grapples. Working bodily and intuitively, characters emerge in the paintings instantaneously through action and connection with the materials, her thoughts and the environment she situates herself.
