Heidi Brickell

Heidi Brickell is based in Tāmaki Makaurau, where she works in education and te reo Māori revitalisation. Her art practice is grounded in the psychological and informed by her fascination with language—a human creation that enables or facilitates exchange, while also being marked by imprecision. Her works are rich in their materiality. They depend on complex making processes, incorporating rabbit skin size, pieces and threads of canvas, and a range of pigments. Colours and forms slip and slide, strengthen and dissipate, moving between the realms of direct experience and the imagination.