Handle With Care by Lea-Anne Sheather

Visit this exhibition at Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi / Whakatāne Galleries from 14 September - 26 October.

Lea-Anne's creative practice explores the wonder within nature and the unguarded, transcendent moments she has with the natural world. Handle with Care includes highly detailed fabrications that depict an imaginary construct called ‘Island of Woo’. These small-scale constructions are a direct response to the abundance of life Lea-Anne bears witness to every day during her regular visits to explore the beach and bush reserves near her home.

Her larger works continue to explore our interconnectedness and interdependency with all life forms. These include collages and freeform embroideries, fabric manipulation and appliqué that draw the lines, patterns, and wave-like layers that Lea-Anne has seen in dreams and visions which reveal what interconnections might look like.