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Renée Pearson
Renée Pearson
Artist statement:
In our modern society we seem to be obsessed with containing things, with fencing things in both literally and figuratively. We try to contain the natural world, to put up fences, to see ourselves as separate from it and interact with it only on our own terms, much to the detriment of the world, both human and natural.
Can we learn to take down the fences, to move off this path of mutual destruction and live harmoniously within the world?
Bio:
Renée Pearson is a visual artist, stone carver and jeweller. Born in 1991 in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, Renée grew up in a small village in the southern alps of New Zealand. These formative years, exploring the surrounding landscape, fostered a passion for the land that grew alongside her, and continues to be an important influence in her work.
She explores social and philosophical concepts relevant to the modern world. Working predominantly with greywacke, the most common of New Zealand stones, Renée‘s objects present an archaeological reference alluding to the inevitable transience of the human situation.
Renée completed a Certificate in Design at Christchurch Polytechnic in 2012 and a Bachelor of Applied Arts at Whitireia Polytechic in 2018.