Ngura Pukulpa – Happy Place - Kaylene Whiskey

This exhibition unites the work of Aotearoa-based artist Tyrone Te Waa and Melbourne-based artist Matthew Harris. Matthew Harris draws on ancestral memory, everyday materials and site-responsive processes to create sculptural forms that sit between utility and abstraction. His practice explores cultural continuity, language and the tension between permanence and fragility in the built and natural world. Te Waa’s work similarly invokes the body, belief systems and the metaphysical through assemblage, drawing and sculptural interventions. Te Waa often engages with intuitive material play, layered symbolism and the subconscious, navigating complex spiritual and cultural terrain.

In their own words, the exhibition is “a conversation between two places, using materiality as an expression of genealogy and as a means of creating connection; to historical occurrences, to place and to each other.”

Supported by The Pitau