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AYESHA GREEN

186 Grey St 2011, Home series.
Acrylic on board. 1210 x 1690mm.
Collection of the artist

Primrose St Bedroom 2011, Home series
Acrylic on board
790 x 990mm
Private collection

About the Artist
Green’s work is autobiographical and wanders between childhood fantasy and the mundane. In her series Home (2011) Green painted houses, bedrooms, backyards and hallways, piecing together recollections of her past. Paintings in this series stem from her memories of childhood spaces, where she maps out architectural details transformed through the effects of time and through the process of recalling and recording in paint. Ayesha Green is intrigued by the frailty of memory and its transformative nature; the way, in which memory can grow, dissolve and rearrange over time. The paintings are characterised by a three dimensional space that is flattened out, where perspective becomes woozy and indefinite; and they often evoke the feel of empty film sets, backdrops or landscapes ready to be moved into.

Ayesha Green is an Auckland-based artist with a background in moving image. She graduated Bachelor of Media Arts from Wintec and is currently completing her second year of a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.