Hana Carpenter

Hana Carpenter has Scottish, Irish, and Danish ancestry, ngãi te Tiriti te iwi. She was born in Te Kuiti, Aotearoa. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Auckland University and is completing a Master of Visual Arts at AUT University. 

Being a Pākehā descendant of settlers and an artist working within European painting traditions underpins my visual methods of demarcating and diffusing lines. The line is me- my colonial inheritance. The tactility of paint lets me physically enact the marking of line and its undoing, a metaphorical unsettling of a subjugative legacy. The paintings are based on photographs I took of a glass case of black velvet, which read as landscape reflections. The wood used in the work is cedar from the organ pipes in St Paul's Church, Waiwhetu, Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai (Lower Hutt), which sits inside Section 19, an area of land taken from Te Atiawa iwi during WWII for suburban development. The varied shapes of the boxes allude to museum display cases, Camera Obscura, and the claiming and framing of land.