Critical Studies
Over six years of studying across English Literature, Religious Studies, Theatre, Political Science, and Art History I have written on a rich array of topics. While I would not subject you to full essays, confined to their academic marking rubrics, my developed writing and critical studies practice is much more reader-friendly.
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“Mystery as Possibility: Wangechi Mutu’s Bronzes, The Seated” Wangechi Mutu’s seven foot tall seated bronze sculptures, the Seated I-IV, were commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sit in the building’s previously vacant Rodin façade alcoves as part of the NewOnes will Free Us. These sculptures are cosmic, divine, African, and feminine. They riff…
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Studying art history suited me because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature. I’m chronically curious. My undergraduate degrees were concerned with what I felt were fundamentals – political structures, global religions, Aotearoa history, conflict, how people interpret, what stories they express and why, how art and language function in these contexts, and to what end. In…
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