Jessica Covell, Stacking Memory / PŌKĀKĀ (detail), 2025.
Saturday 17 January, 2026
1pm-2pm
Bring along surplus seeds, seedlings, produce, etc. to swap with other visitors! Thanks to Hugh Lindsay and The Halo Project: Beyond Orokonui for providing some native seedlings to start us off.
The seedling swap marks the end of Stacking Memory / PŌKĀKĀ by Jessica Covell at Blue Oyster, a project that remembers and celebrates the native trees that could have once been plentiful in the place Blue Oyster now rests.
This is a free event.
Event accessibility information
Access to the gallery is via a slope and three steps.
A wheelchair ramp is available!
Refreshments are provided at all events.
Seating is available.
There is a toilet on-site (not wheelchair accessible).
Do contact admin@blueoyster.org.nz with any access questions or requirements, we’d love to have you with us.
John Wallis Barnicoat (1814-1905), Bokaka Tree, the bark of which yields a beautiful black dye. May 1 1844 [artist’s inscription], 1844, pencil on paper: 104 x 206mm, Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, 94/273
Jessica Covell is an Ōtepoti Dunedin-based installation artist, curator, and project director exploring the intersections of art, community, and play. Through a series of Spectacle and solo projects, Covell has created collaborative experiences that celebrate accessibility and connection.
Covell’s playful, immersive works invite interactivity. Her fibre-based tufted installations explore colour, texture, and pattern and often double as social experiments.
Recent site-specific works focus on the connections between plants, people, and place. Covell’s practice is continually shaped by memories of nature.
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