Intimate Distance
Siobhan Wooding
Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi
Photograph of Team up! on Tasman Street, Pukeahu, Te Whanganui-a-Tara. 2025. Nylon + polyester sculptural units.
Detail of Whakapapa is a Room, 2025. Polyvinyl Chloride and nylon.
Research photograph of Whale series at Arlington Site, Pukeahu, Te Wanganui-a-Tara, 2025. Various recycled leathers, cardboard.
Antibody, 2024. Nylon, polyester.
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts
Fine Arts
Sculpture is an expression of whakapapa, a joining and relating of materials and forms. However, in these acts of connection, moments of distance emerge. The separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku marks the first instance of this, a parting that creates space and dimension to explore. Building outwards, pushing upwards, and twisting longways; Intimate Distance acts as a contemplation of the expansive nature of whakapapa.
