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Her Magazine December/January 2013

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:waste not want not Gisborne based artist Lina Marsh is a collector of bits and pieces, op- shop treasures, memories and stories. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally; her most recent works are currently touring Germany. Of Niuean and Maori descent, Lina is a graduate of Auckland���s Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. Her work fuses traditional art-making techniques and handcrafts to create works that are associated with migration, mixed cultural identity and contemporary culture. Printmaking, embroidery and crochet are dominant techniques in her work. However, papermache, textiles and painting have also contributed to her diverse art making practice. The end results are objects that tell personal and universal stories. In her works ���Taha, Tahi, One���, Lina has taken the stories of her Grandmother, her mother and herself, to explore assimilation and loss of identity. Created for the Canterbury Museum, these mixed media paper-mache busts eventually travelled to Niue to be part of the first Niuean Art and Culture Festival in 2009. Niu Tauevihi of the Premier���s Department described them 108 | www. h e rma gaz i n e . c o. n z as being ���disturbingly thought provoking as our cultural heritage is challenged with each passing generation���. State housing is also a consistent theme in Lina���s work. In her 2009 solo exhibition titled ���Introduced and Naturalized���, of the 49 carefully embroidered works, she created an installation of 21 state houses exploring issues of dependency, urbanisation and of being ���state owned���. ���I began to make comparisons between the forests and eco systems of Niue and the people who have left this island to live in New Zealand, only to arrive and be introduced and settle into a false since of security.��� Lina continued this theme to create works titled LYNFIELD 267 for the 2010 show Circular. Lina is currently working toward creating Gisborne���s first Pacific art exhibition titled ���TO BE PACIFIC���. Of this show she says, ���We have a growing Pacific Island population in Gisborne and it���s a chance for artists to show their very best in contemporary art making and share their stories, both past and present.��� The show will run from 20th September through to the 24th of November 2013 at the Tairawhiti Museum of Art and Culture.

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