In The Eye Of The Beholder

Te Huanui’s final exhibition of 2022, ‘In the Eye of the Beholder’, brings a range of colours, styles, crafts and skills to Darfield for the Summer period. Opening from 6pm on Friday, November 25th, ‘In the Eye of the Beholder’ celebrates a body of work from each of the artists, Isabella Irsigler, Heather Jonson, Estefania Mondaca and Nanenko Olmos, created over 2022. ISABELLA IRSIGLER is a photographer (under Izzy Malone) and multi-media artist, exploring, creating, learning and refining old and new skills, crafts and arts. Currently, she is working with textiles and needles, combining traditional crafts, special animalistic characters and an 85mm lens. This year has seen Isabella create twelve fine art images, showing flower crowned, unique personalities. Beginning with the raw wool from her own sheep, she helped to shear, sort, wash and card wool, then hand-dyed, felted and crafted individual flowers to create crowns. Crowns were photographed on animals near her, she has enjoyed sharing outcomes and seeing intrigued, amused and even inspired faces. NANENKO OLMOS is a Christchurch based, Argentinian born painter, with a particular interest in visual composition. He has always been interested in art, investigating different genres and mediums, inspired by his travels and self-taught experiences. After graduating from the University of Córdoba, Argentina, he exhibited extensively in Argentina and Brazil, and is now focus this year on abstract looking forward to exhibiting in expressionism, particularly the Canterbury. work of Gary Kormarin. ESTEFANIA MONDACA is a Heather’s overall theme is based Chilean-born artist, now based in on subjective/objective obscurity Christchurch. Working in a range exposed, where an object can of mediums, Estefania's artistic seem ordinary and obvious but practice consists of translating on closer inspection, is not as sensitive experiences, wandering easily identified. Symbolic of over any experience of creation how we view people based on as the desire to find a territory appearance, the time taken to where it is possible to remain. connect leaves us surprised. Inhabiting these impermanent Heather has used colour, form parts as landscapes of memory, and textural gesture with paint making them both possible and to express her interpretation of changeable. the objects studied. HEATHER JONSON works See advertisement in this primarily in acrylics, with a issue for further details. Artwork by Estefania Mondaca.

Artwork by Isabella Irsigler.

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