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  • On the smallness of things, and Where I wander in the Night, at Megan Dickinson Gallery

  • The Costume Designer: Edith Head and Hollywood at Bendigo Art Gallery

  • Fashion Revolution reading

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I used to find dead insects in your pockets for Geoff Wilson Gallery

I used to find dead insects in your pockets for Geoff Wilson Gallery

15 December 2020
by Angela

Presenting new work and a bolder install of my MFA grad show in my home town of Whangarei was an exciting opportunity. I developed two…

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what remains - group exhibition DEMO 13 - 15th June 2019

what remains – group exhibition DEMO 13 – 15th June 2019

22 June 2019
by Angela

Two works installed in the group show, what remains at DEMO as part of the DEMO Season 2019. I say a little prayer for you;…

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I say a little prayer for you

I say a little prayer for you

24 May 2019
by Angela

Using a process of conversation, listening and recording, I collect stories and produce objects which help me understand relationships, my research method also happens to…

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I say a little prayer for you; good results are difficult when indifference predominates

I say a little prayer for you; good results are difficult when indifference predominates

18 February 2019
by Angela

MFA Summer seminar installation and video fragments. Statement text: I say a little prayer for you; good results are difficult when indifference predominates Never approach…

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Everyone’s a stranger to me now

Everyone’s a stranger to me now

6 November 2018
by Angela

Everyone’s a stranger to me now, detail of pressed work About the exhibition: I can’t put my finger on it brings together artists that eschew object…

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Unbound: Gathering Material for Unbound; Liberating women

Unbound: Gathering Material for Unbound; Liberating women

20 October 2018
by Angela

The Ballroom at Larnach Castle Last month, September, the month to mark 125 of Women’s Suffrage here in Aotearoa New Zealand was a big month,…

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Unbound: Gathering material

Unbound: Gathering material

10 September 2018
by Angela

Press release Unbound: Gathering material, Angela Rowe Larnach Castle and Otago Polytechnic, 21st – 23rd September 2018. Delegates attending the Costume and Textile Association of New…

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Social Bodies; Ocean of Air, in Water, a group exhibition opening next week

Social Bodies; Ocean of Air, in Water, a group exhibition opening next week

26 April 2018
by Angela

Water,  a group exhibition I have work in opens next Thursday! ‘Ma te wai, ka ora tonu ngā mea katoa!’ Through water, all things live! Water…

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Mycelia:Mycelium in the Window Space at The Geoff Wilson Gallery

Mycelia:Mycelium in the Window Space at The Geoff Wilson Gallery

14 July 2017
by Angela

Window Space Gallery The Geoff Wilson Gallery Toi Te Pito Arts Precinct NorthTec 51 Raumanga Valley Road Whangarei 0110 Mycelia:Myceliuim, 2017, detail. Press Release Mycelia:Mycelium, by…

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Crustacea at Woolon 2017

Crustacea at Woolon 2017

30 June 2017
by Angela

For a couple of months this year, my work room was a mass of pink plaid wool! Austin got in on it, always ready for…

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