TERRITORY OF EROSION
Arwen Flowers & Kristen Calder
Paintings | Ceramics. 2025. Arthaus Contemporary, 228 Orakei Road, Remuera, Auckland.
Arwen Flowers holds a Master of Visual Arts and her painting practice examines notions of personal agency in daily life through the lens of ‘messiness’ and ‘care’.
"Life is messy. There’s disorder, conflict, uncomfortable difficulties, confusing complexities, dirtiness, scruffiness or sloppiness, threats to safety, hastiness, carelessness, annoyances, displeasures, disastrous results, hardships and problems. I think about this when I am painting. I corral and coerce, scrape, build, sprinkle and tip — permitting or denying actions and materiality. It’s a conversational feeling, and what occurs, then remains on the surface, is a visual reflection of human encounters and experience." — A. Flowers.
"Life is messy. There’s disorder, conflict, uncomfortable difficulties, confusing complexities, dirtiness, scruffiness or sloppiness, threats to safety, hastiness, carelessness, annoyances, displeasures, disastrous results, hardships and problems. I think about this when I am painting. I corral and coerce, scrape, build, sprinkle and tip — permitting or denying actions and materiality. It’s a conversational feeling, and what occurs, then remains on the surface, is a visual reflection of human encounters and experience." — A. Flowers.