2026 | Embroidery thread, yarn, and felt on tulle.
Series: What We Cultivate
This series explores themes of gendered labour, botanical colonialism and material practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Korimako was created for my Critical Studies project (2025-2026) for the Bachelor of Creative Media at UCOL and is part of the ongoing series What We Cultivate. I began by weaving with yarn, then free-cut felt and hand-embroidered the korimako. This was my first attempt at surface weaving in the style of Fleur Woods, and it was a pleasant learning experience, allowing for unstructured material experimentation with no end goal in mind. It wasn’t until I had completed the weaving that I felt compelled to add a korimako, in honour of the Māori proverb: