In The Calm Glowing Warmth I Remembered

In The Calm Glowing Warmth I Remembered by Debbie Barber

Visit this exhibition at Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi / Whakatāne Galleries from 14 September - 26 October.

Debbie’s creative process centres around the materiality of clay. Influenced by her mum’s journey with dementia and grounded in a reflective practice considering time, memory and relationships, Debbie’s textural sculptures explore connections between philosophical writings and clay.

What if the thoroughfare of memory has holes and continually moves around without knowing where to settle? How does this affect one’s identity when the interlaced path of our whakapapa is without context and the stories we are born into and with are uncertain traces of our past? How do you move forward into the future with a past that doesn’t remember the way?