Teresa Peters is an artist currently based in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. She works in clay, ceramics, moving image and photography. ECHOES won the Portage Premier Ceramic Award, 2021 at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery ~ the first work in the 21 year awards history to be presented as a photograph.
Teresa Peters is a production designer TERESAPETERS.film and filmmaker in collaboration with Florian Habicht ~ PULP: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets, 2014. Her film work has screened widely the international film festival circuit, including Cannes official selection.
Her work ‘excavates’ primordial ‘artefacts’ and navigates pseudo-archaeology and abstract geology. Molten entities in intimate combustion. Navigating the prehistoric futuristic, she fuses earth bodies into fluid digital realms and ‘archives’ them as photographic artefacts.
DISASTROUSFORMS.COM, 2020 is a body of ceramic and clay artefacts from a faux sci-fi disaster, archived on an online platform ~ exploring natural disasters, natural history and archiving. Disaster as the mother of revolution. It is inspired by/archived with Auckland Museum Collections Online and made with the support of Creative New Zealand. Echoing Berlin club culture and drawing museum collections out into the civic centre. As Walter Benjamin observed, collections are never finished. It launched on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, as a large-scale cosmic audio-visual event in 2021.
MOLTENENTITIES.COM ~ Notes on moving mountains at RM, Gallery, as part of From things flow , July 2021 explored the transformative qualities of quartz into an audio-visual QUARTZ SOUND JOURNEY in collab with sound healer Cheryl Farthing.
ORB: PLACING INTO VIBRATION
TERESA PETERS + TORBEN TILLY + CHERYL FARTHING, ~ exhibition & experience ~ Audio Foundation 2022
In 2022/2023 Teresa Peters collaborated with mother Maree Horner ~ Senior New Zealand feminist artist & forerunner in the 1970s Post Object Art Movement: Land, experimental & conceptual art in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Earthed & Ground Zero, made with the support of Creative New Zealand, drew on parallels in the mother daughter practices (earth ~ body based practice and public events) and revisited Tideline 1971 as a 2022 ten minute filmic archive recreated at the original location, it screened on the NorthArt Digital Screen Project alongside Teresa Peters’ BLACK MOON, as part of EARTHED. In the same year Maree Horner was invited as the inaugural artist with J.C. Sturm for Door, Window, World the opening of Ruth Buchcanan’s Artspace Aotearoa.
& in 2024 her work BLACK MOON vibed to live From Scratch performance 625 MOONS ~ FROM SCRATCH ~ New Zealand’s iconic and ground breaking music and performance group’s 50 year celebrations produced by the Audio Foundation & was a featured work in live accompaniment as part of their 2025 National tour Songs for Unsung Heroes & 3 short films.
On returning from Berlin and New York in 2015 she completed her PGDipFA at Elam. Teresa Peters extended exhibition highlights include Auckland Art Fair 2021/23, the mothermother archive (ongoing), Duty of Care ~ Institute of Modern Art Queensland, 2024, Unnerved ~ Museum of Modern Art, Queensland, 2004. The Hostess Project ~ P.P.O.W, NYC, 2010 & Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ~ Te Tuhi, 2007.
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