Vanessa Edwards returns to Tāhuna Queenstown, supported by members of the Toi Whakaata - Māori Print Collective, Alexis Neal, Jasmine Horton and Tessa Russell, to honour her mother and explore the role of pattern within visual culture. 

To call outward is to expel breath from within - like a karanga during a powhiri or a wailing at a tangi. An outward expression acknowledging or responding to an external catalyst. To call inward is to receive a message into the self - like an internal voice, sometimes a whisper and other times a deafening, chaotic cry.
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Vanessa Edwards is a Whanganui-based printmaker and founding member of Toi Whakaata, whose work draws on Māori perspectives and over two decades of national and international printmaking experience.

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Alexis Neal is an interdisciplinary artist grounded in printmaking, weaving, and installation, exploring cultural identity and material culture through contemporary Māori perspectives.

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Jasmine Horton is a Whangārei-based artist whose work draws on her background in graphic design, printmaking, and jewellery to explore themes of home, whakapapa, and spiritual connection to the land.

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Tessa Russell is a Upper Hut-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice centres on her role as a Māori mother, using sustainable materials like bioplastics to explore environmental responsibility and cultural relationships to the land.

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Image: Vanessa Edwards, AKA Di-Vine (detail), 2023, large woodcut on enamel with hand textured surface, 1550 x 1000mm.