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Artist

Rachel Shearer

Rachel Shearer is an audio and visual artist based in Auckland. Her visual work has been marked by its overlap with sound.

As an artist Shearer has been exploring site-specific sound installation practice. Her most recent public commission, The Flooded Mirror (2011) is a permanent sound installation situated in the Wynyard Quarter on Auckland’s newly developed waterfront. She sound designs and composes for film. Active as an experimental musician since the late 1980’s, Rachel has released material with labels Xpressway (NZ), Flying Nun (NZ), Ecstatic Peace (US), Corpus Hermeticum (NZ), Family Vineyard (US) among others.

Writing & podcasts featuring Rachel Shearer

A rocky outcrop lakeside on Haupapa glacier

For MĀKŪ

Exhibition review
By Robyn Maree Pickens · November 20, 2023

Robyn Maree Pickens writes on Ngā raraunga o te Mākū: te hā o Haupapa, an iteration in a series of artworks that emanate from Haupapa Tasman glacier, held at Blue Oyster in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

For MĀKŪ
A girl sits on the knee of an older wāhine, playing the guitar together. As they sit on a chair together playing, the background shows a river flowing with blue water.

Text as Material: 10 Works Inspired by Poetry, Word, and Song

Essay
By CIRCUIT Staff · August 30, 2021

Ten artist videos on CIRCUIT using poetry, text and waiata as material and inspiration for moving image works and cine-poems.

Text as material: 10 works inspired by poetry, word and song

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