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KAY VAN DYK: WELCOME HOME 1 - 27 March 2010 Kay van Dyk’s "Welcome Home" exhibition comments on the impact which farming has had on the environment where she grew up in Ashburton. She explores this in a series of works in silver, copper, enamel and found objects. Her necklace, titled Welcome Home, is made up of 37 white enamelled tags, each bearing local place names, sayings, or carefully crafted images of birds, fish and milk bottles. As well as charms such as wishbones and dice, van Dyk uses the symbol of the paddle as a way of offering up hope for our future. She says about the works, ‘The Ashburton River', once teaming with salmon, and where I spent half my summer swimming, is now much reduced in flow, is polluted, and unswimmable. This is largely because of unsustainable farming practices which have changed the ecology of the river, as is happening to our rivers, streams and lakes nationally’. |
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