Who Are We?
A group of women artists and thinkers with diverse ethnic backgrounds and connections.
We have a range of complementary talents which work together to create a project.
Our roles are flexible.
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Though our collective is somewhat elastic, we have a core group of women who are our founding members.
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Deb Donnelly
Textile Designer / Curator
Japan / NZ European
New Zealand born artist, printmaker, researcher and writer of family textile tales. I am a full time independent Asian art textiles curator after 30 years experience as a tertiary art tutor while raising her family.
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Happily domiciled on the Kapiti Coast as long as it allows me international travel, I'm interested in growing trees and plants as dye stock.
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Helen Donnelly
Filmmaker / Visual Communications Designer
NZ European
Through my documentary film work I focus on the migrant and minority experience. I desire to be a connector between these and my world.
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My connections with the Iraqi Assyrian community in Wellington allowed me to film in Iraq. My last visit was in 2014 when ISIS invaded, an experience I am processing within my film work.
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Birgit Moffatt
Eco-fibre Artist
East Germany
My work is strongly influenced by places that are important to me: my birth city East Berlin, where I grew up and my new home, New Zealand.
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Living between cultures, the process of assimilation and understanding of my new environment involves an internal re-examination of home.
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Marie L. Enslin
Ceramicist
Zimbabwe / South Africa
As a multimedia artist I work primarily in porcelain and ferrous metals.
Inspired by themes of ancestry, migration; perception and interpretation, my work often encompasses concepts such as the duality of living with both identity and with hope and fear, and the space between these two.
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Dr. Mei-Chueh Chao
Language & Diversity Consultant
Taiwan
I consider myself an artist, not by profession, but by heart. Aren’t we all weaving our own life tapestry as an expression of our beings, our thoughts and our actions?
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By profession, I am an educator and a start-up entrepreneur. I am also an advocate for migrant women issues. In particular, I am on my mission to stop the immigration abuse that numerous migrant women experience in NZ. I aim to effect this by supporting and empowering migrant women, raising public awareness, working with legal professionals and influencing policy change.
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