User talk:Caroleprentice

Carole Prentice, artist, New Zealand contemporary fine art. Carole grew up in Auckland in the 1950's, living in Mt Wellington/Panmure, a working class suburb squeezed between the Tamaki River and Maungarei, - the mountain known by most people as Mt Wellington. As a child Carole clambered up the steep sides of Maungarei many times, and now as an artist she climbs mountains only to look more critically at landscapes she thinks she knows. From such vantage points, Carole considers how tenuous Pakeha occupation of the land is and imagines ways in which traces of much earlier indigenous occupation echo and endure. Such perspectives are evident in her paintings, where dreamlike floating islands are inspired by the dramatic landforms found in and around the Whangarei Harbour. These shapes in an archipelago of discovery explore the dimensions of place where the past persists, and speaks to us in the present.