Featured Artist

Inspired by recent travels to Europe, the UK and Southeast Asia, returning Kiwi artist Flox has begun a new chapter that reflects on the word ‘home’ and marks a return to her roots as a fine artist.

Flox’s response to renewed sense of ownership and community in Christchurch after the recent devastating earthquakes was the piece Home Is Where The Heart Is, which initiated the Home series.

A stay in Berlin prompted her to consider the word ‘home’ as the antitheses of the German capital’s turbulent history: displacement and dispossession.
These new textured works also form a narrative of her travels, with an avian angle, incorporating the New Zealand waxeye, the European swallow, the British robin and the Asian kingfisher.

Next Flox intends to repurpose the work for abandoned spaces, to investigate what home means in once-precious environments that have been lost and forgotten.

‘Positioning the work as street art, where ideas of home and homelessness merge, will distort the implications of ‘home’ compared with seeing the work in the formal confines of gallery spaces,’ Flox says.