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Kim Pieters (1959) lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her artistic practice could be described as emergent, adaptive & nonlinear. She is predominantly a nonrepresentational painter and also produces photographs, experimental film, writing and music from her Dunedin studio. Pieters has a tendency to build her work, no matter what genre, around two or more distinct nuclei, using the juxtaposition of these autonomous yet resonant realms to create a clearing of sorts. This clearing allows for thinking itself rather than the mere recognition of thought. Her work is represented in private and public collections including the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tamaki, Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Victoria University Collection and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux are partners and artistic collaborators whose practice of listening to plants enables the critical revision of human histories through interdisciplinary and site-specific projects. They have responded to the stories of plants from the overgrown urban berms of New York City and hollowed-out forests of Vermont, to Aotearoa where their practice has held the tension between endemic and introduced plants. Bellamy holds a BFA from the Dunedin School of Art and Fauteux holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. In June 2020 they were digital artists-in-residence with Artspace Aotearoa. They have been collaborating since 2019 and live in Ōtepoti.

www.mirandabellamy.com, @_miranda_was_here__
www.amandafauteux.com, @amanda.fauteux