Teresa Peters is an artist and filmmaker based in Tamaki Makaurau, currently working
in clay and ceramics, photography and moving image. She is interested in bodies, earth bodies, forming
and transforming. Chemical compounds and molten entities, in intimate
combustion. ‘Excavating’ primordial totems’, as we move on into the
sixth mass extinction. Ceramics is alchemy. Earth, water, air… fire...
Teresa Peters invites Natalie Tozer, Kelly Pretty invites Emma Smith.
Themes found in this grouping have a discordant and dystopic bent to
them. Natalie Tozer’s future fossils dug from a burnt earth, next to
Emmas Smiths apocalyptic blackened skies. These works are bridged with
Teresa Peters’ ceramic trail. There is a sense of another time,
geological time, and alternative speculative futures as the works yearn
across the space to connect to each other.
MOTHERMOTHER is an evolving exhibition situated at LOT23 Gallery,
Auckland.The project weaves emerging and established female artists from
all backgrounds as each exhibiting artist invites another to take their
place. A story is created with each handling over of the space,
bringing different artists together to foster connections within the
wider art community.
