Brendon Monson
New Zealand has a long history of stone carving of which Pakeha are relative newcomers. As a contemporary Pakeha jeweller working with stone I am interested in the politics surrounding its use today in Aotearoa/NZ”
I have researched my own family’s colonial heritage as a way of confronting the dilemma of how to express Pakeha identity in a post-colonial era. Their migration and settlement to Otago in 1848 inspired the development of my own visual language of form, metaphor and materiality.”