I was fortunate enough to receive accolade from Superfluous (Thursday) below, receiving 1st Runner Up at the Wallace Awards in 2013; resulting in a transformative 3 month residency at the Vermont Studio Centre.
During this time I was living in the downstairs of an old villa which bordered Basque Park in Auckland. There would frequently be items of flyaway rubbish which blew into our back garden, so I took to collecting them. Single use plastic bags were prolific at this time, and being well aware of their environmental plague in New Zealand and abroad I wanted to make work that engaged in a conversation about it. I sought to lionise and single out these destructively mundane staples of modern life, to draw attention to their permanent yet delicate form, floating in an empty void of forever - time and space.
Years on, with single use plastics banned they now stand as relics of the past. Water colour on paper, dimensions vary.