Join McCahon House Parehuia artist in residence Rowan Panther as she shares insight into her practice and demonstrates how to make muka lace.
Rowan is a contemporary lace textile artist. Her practice weaves together diverse European and Oceanic textile traditions, responding to the complexities of colonisation and to her mixed Irish, English, German and Samoan ancestry.
The bobbin and muka lace pieces she creates reference patterns of European collars worn by nobility and incorporate objects that draw upon Pacific cultural forms such as ceremonial breast plates.
