Left: Found bollards, found timber, ratchet strap. Right: Personal dead pointe shoe collection, steel wire, found chicken wire.
Found car parts, found plastic, found handle, found bollard tops, found bungee cord, found tyre wire, found chicken wire.
Found bike gear, Royal New Zealand Ballet broken pointe shoes. Photograph by Carlos Knight
Found concrete, found temporary fence, found bollard inner, found metal frame, found attachments. Photograph by Carlos Knight
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours
Fine Arts
Laird observes the change seen in place around us and in ourselves. Turning to discarded or ‘broken’ objects found around Te Whanganui-a-Tara her work captures politics, discourse and identity. With care she employs kiwi ingenuity, finding potential, and value that has been there all along. Prompting viewers to reframe their relationships with the interior and the exterior, the public and the personal, the discarded and the precious.
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