Selected Exhibitions
Before the Rain there were Clouds, (River) 2019, Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden, 2025
Left: Before the Rain there were Clouds, (River) #1, 2019, Glass, ink, MDF, steel, 1850x784mm
Right: Before the Rain there were Clouds, (River) #2, 2019, Glass, ink, MDF, steel, 1985x1163mm
Water Marks,
Orion Powerhouse Gallery, Akaroa, 2025
diverge | converge, 2023,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Installation view, diverge | converge
Time lapse (stills),melting ice, Approximately 20 hours condensed into 9 minutes!
A very long and cold dark night, but some things just need time!
Accordian book, Lateral Migration, 2023, cyanotype, paper, thread
Lateral Migration
how low i am today
but when the nor’west wind blows
tonight, i will rise and rise and rise
tomorrow, memory will guide me
as rain swells my gravel bed between
the willows; my designer banks breach
i will cover the green quilt
I believe is mine,
ha, and i remember where to go.
what of those riparian optimists now
who think they know best
what is best for me
can i be designed and trained
to stay, forever obedient,
between your designer banks
i spread my watery gravel bed, across
your green quilts sodden,
but my right well remembered
no resistance now
as rocks and grit and mud
sense an ocean.
Jenny Reeve
“The river is time passing. Watching water move is like the invisible character of time becoming visible.” Tanya Kovats
In AD 397AD St. Augustine of Hippo, wrote “Perhaps it would be proper to say there are three periods of time: the present of things past, the present of things present, the present of things future.” And much later, in 1896, Henri Bergson wrote, “ “Movement visibly consists in passing from one point to another and consequently, traversing space”, and then asked, “But how should a progress coincide with a thing, a movement with an immobility?” or, how to visualise time while rationalising the duality of movement and stillness?
Bringing the concept of time, and rivers together during Covid 19. Time is represented by the labour of embroidering texts, and poetry about time and rivers, in the time based language of Morse Code.
The Paradox of Movement and Stillness, 2020,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
2900 x 2400 x 1900mm, as installed
Rivers of Canterbury
TS Eliot, from Burnt Norton, Morse Code
Cotton, embroidery thread, digital prints, acrylic, nautical polyester cord
Horizon, 2021, Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden, 2022
Horizon, 2021, Acrylic, MDF board, LED light, acrylic rod, electrical cable, 600x 621 x 190mm
Aurora, Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden, 2020
Aurora, 2018, 400 x 1200 x 200mm, Acrylic, MDF Board, LED Light, electrical cable