Howick Frames: bom dia!
bom dia! is an exhibition comprising images of recent and past paintings of dias. This celebratory body of work depicts the artist’s experience of living in Pakuranga, departing and her continual return to her suburban home and greater East Auckland.
Through the act of painting, dias explores its transformative ability to understand her relationships with others in her environment. As a result, the created image reflects her newfound perspectives back to her ‘environment’. This creates a continuous cycle of reflection from herself to her environment, and back again.
bom dia! invites the viewer to consider what the term ‘local’ means to them beyond a geographical sense. It encourages the viewer to reflect on engaging authentically with their locale, to draw deeper and genuine connections with their surroundings and thus themselves.
Artist bio
Brunelle Dias is an painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She completed her Masters of Visual Art at AUT, School of Art and Design, in 2021. She is interested in the intimacy between figure and ground and the interconnection between past and present. Recent exhibitions include The Local Migrant at RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau; Idyll at Page Galleries, Te Whanganui-A-Tara; and a revisit of introspective fieldworks: the everyday in flux at Nathan Homestead, Tāmaki Makaurau, all 2022.
This is an Arts Out East Project in collaboration with the Howick Village Association. Arts Out East is supported by Te Tuhi and Howick Local Board