26 February – 7 June
Little Gallery

Debbie Harris is an object-based installation artist. Currently undertaking Masters in Visual Arts at AUT University, her practice investigates how materials can operate in conjunction with one another to form spatial compositions akin to an imagined garden of objects. Her organic sculptures playfully explore the eccentric forms that can be found within the garden bed.

What Light Can Do explores the parallels and metaphors with how plants grow and how objects are made. This object-based installation has symbolically changed; grown roots, transformed colours, blossomed and budded again. It has both unravelled and transitioned, just as the garden does. By virtue of the making process, each object changes throughout its creation, evolves and plants a seed for the next idea. It is a cycle of inevitable trial and error, learning and making, seeding and growing.

Debbie Harris, What Light Can Do, 2019, Ceramic.