,BIO
I am originally from Auckland, lived in the Kaipara for almost 10 yrs and moved to Napier in 2004. I have been creative in some form or another for all of my life. I remember as a child getting in trouble for ruining my church clothes, after playing in the reserve at the back of our house, making clay figures and pots.
I work in paint, mixed media, ceramics and recycled waste.
All works are available for sale, unless marked sold.
I am originally from Auckland, lived in the Kaipara for almost 10 yrs and moved to Napier in 2004. I have been creative in some form or another for all of my life. I remember as a child getting in trouble for ruining my church clothes, after playing in the reserve at the back of our house, making clay figures and pots.
I work in paint, mixed media, ceramics and recycled waste.
All works are available for sale, unless marked sold.
HISTORY
Pagan Moon has explored a diversity of arts and crafts over the course of her life. After being unsupported by her parents into an arts education because she was a girl, she resigned herself to exploring her creativity as a hobby. In 2010, she decided to risk pursuing her love of art and craft, leaving her career as an educarer, embracing the opportunity to enroll in the EIT L3 introductory Art and Design course. The full time engagement with art that this provided, gave her the confidence to realise her dream to be a creative practitioner. Pagan was a resident artist at the Waiohiki Community Arts Village between 2013 to 2020. Pagan currently has several paintings in private collections, both locally and nationally.
Pagan feels it is important that her art activity has a limited impact on the environment and is derived from the use of natural and recyclable materials, which she sees as a gift of unwanted treasures. Pagan would become tearful, when during her course, when she was told she HAD to make something from new plastic. she now tries to upcycle as much plastic waste as she can, until a safer method is found for its disposal. She is constantly amazed as an artist, how much material can be sourced, at very little cost, once people understand her creative motivations.
RESEARCH AND PROCESS
Pagan has a Diploma in Visual Arts and Design (sculpture, paint and mixed media). The focus for her work is a continuation of a marginal identity project from 2012 and political protest art. Having one gay son and one transgender child herself, Pagan has heard many stories of what her son’s friends have been through on their journey to having the confidence to be true to themselves and become strong enough to stand up and be proud. With her developing skills with materials and imaginative form making, Pagan visually communicates controversial issues around gender, the human condition and the environment.
MISSION STATEMENT
I want to reconnect people through my work with issues that involve our future, and do it in unexpected ways, using unusual materials in surreal, beautiful or humourous ways that invoke conversation.
EDUCATION
Attended EIT Visual Arts and Design course Oct 2010 – Feb 2014, Levels 3 -6.
COMMISSIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
2021 I Saw You, Spaceship, Hastings
2019 Hawkes Bay Arts Review, Creative Arts Napier, Napier
2017 The Matchbox Exhibition, The Orphic Egg Gallery, Bayview, Napier
2016 ExquisIT, ExIT Group Exhibition, Hastings Community Art Centre, Hastings
2016 The Orphic Egg Mysteries, The Orphic Egg Gallery , Bayview, Napier
2016 Mix It Up, Waiokiki Arts Vlllage group exhibition, CAN , Napier
2016 Skulltopia, Boyd-Dunlop Gallery, Napier
2015 Expand, ExIT group exhibition, Hastings Community Art Centre, Hastings
2014 Wildflower Sculpture Exhibition, Hastings
2014 Expedition, ExIT group exhibition, Hastings Community Art Centre, Hastings
2014 Point of Departure, The Hastings Community Art Centre (HCAC) , Hastings
2013 Boxed In, L6 Diploma Group Exhibition, The Kitchen Table Café and
Photographers Gallery, Napier
2013 Birdie Collective Exhibition, EIT Vent Gallery
Resident Artist at Waiohiki Arts Village March 2013 - January 2020
Workshops
2016 Animorphs, Family Funday, Hastings City Art Gallery
2016 Animorphs, Family Funday, Hastings City Art Gallery