Layne Waerea is an Auckland based artist whose practice involves carrying out performance art interventions in public spaces. These interventions seek to question, challenge and even exploit social and legal ambiguities in the public social.
A subtle response to recent global conversations around public monuments.
11 plastic buckets on the clothes line in an empty section in order to catch free rain.
From a vantage point several stories high, air-filled plastic bags are released into the interior void of an institutional building.
Imagine a Waterfall: Three Commissions for Masons Screen
Walking from pre-European city pā sites to Masons Screen, Mark Amery considers three new public art commissions by Layne Waerea, Annie Bradley and Theo MacDonald, addressing uninvited visitors, bodily architecture and digital confessions.
Christina Read on The Brain
Christina Read talks to Mark Amery about her installation The Brain, at Te Uru Waitākere.