Flowing fabric flows gently with the wind in an outdoor location with a rock cliff behind it. The fabric piece is a patchwork made up of different beige coloured material, all with slightly different textures and transparency.
Artist

Arielle Walker

Arielle Walker (Taranaki, Ngāruahine, Ngāpuhi, Pākehā) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based contemporary artist, writer, and maker.

Her creative practice seeks pathways towards reciprocal belonging through the intersections and connections between land, language, and craft, focusing on tactile storytelling and ancestral narratives. Contexts that surround this include the interconnectedness of isolated islands, the intrinsic ties of language and land, migration across the swell and pull of the ocean, textile traditions passed down through generations of tūpuna wāhine, roots and botanical belongings, pūrākau ("myths" and "folklore") as non-fiction.

She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Master of Visual Arts from AUT University, and is currently working towards a PhD.

Writing & podcasts featuring Arielle Walker

A delicate patchwork fabric of slight translucency is dancing in the wind in front of a rocky landscape.

A Conversation with Arielle Walker and Emily Parr

Interview
By Thomasin Sleigh · February 2, 2022

Parr and Walker explore the history of settler and Indigenous relations in Aoteroa and expand the metaphor of whatu (weaving)—through relationships, time, whenua, objects, and images.

A Conversation with Arielle Walker and Emily Parr

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