Eve Armstrong (NZ)

Born in 1978, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Lives and works in Wellington

Eve Armstrong investigates notions of progress and value within everyday life, with specific attention to unwanted materials. She often works with discarded or defunct objects and explores systems of exchange and bartering.

Armstrong took the history of the dertien hectare site and its surroundings as a starting point for the development of her new work ‘Turn’. Of particular interest during her research were photographs documenting the transition period from farm to forest that showed a large pile of rubble made from the demolished farm buildings, which sat on the property for many months.

‘Turn’ is in some ways a re-enactment of this former ‘mountain’, yet it also stands as a monument to an important moment in recent agricultural history, where landscapes and communities that have been based on farming for generations are reinventing themselves. The work also playfully references archaeology and the connection of artificial mounds to middens and burial sites.

Eve Armstrong’s project is made possible with the support of Creative New Zealand.

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