2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Northart, Auckland - 22 May - 3 June 2023

exploring the pleasures and anxieties of the sub-urban: what is allowed, what is excluded… and what could be.

2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Amorphous (detail)
2023
Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, found pohutukawa root, acrylic coated thread, silver wire, glass bead, wire, matt wax medium

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Amorphous (detail)

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Gallery view

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Bamboo, Pokinkini (dried rolled harakeke/New Zealand flax), Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, driftwood
Conjoined
2023
Bamboo, Pokinkini (dried rolled harakeke/New Zealand flax), Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), commercial dye, driftwood
3500 x 200 x 10

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Conjoined
2023

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Gallery View

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), driftwood, found feather, silver wire, Swarovski crystal, ground shell
Peripheres (wood detail) ; Fragment (Background right)
2023
Muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), driftwood, found feather, silver wire, Swarovski crystal, ground shell
82H x 45 W x 7 D

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22
Peripheres (Left); Fragment (Right)

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Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22 Found fishbones (unknown species), muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), houhere (Hoheria, ribbonwood), adhesive
Fragment (detail)
2023
Found fishbones (unknown species), muka (processed harakeke fibre; NZ Flax, Phormium Tenax), houhere (Hoheria, ribbonwood), adhesive
120H (Variable) x 11W x 25D

Photo credit: Sam Hartnett
Michelle Mayn 2023 - Suburbia: mothermother Iteration 22