Fashionista Collection

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The Fashionista collection represents the way we show ourselves to the world. Aspects of personality are fine-tuned through fashion and style to represent the ‘me’ we want others to perceive. By setting themselves up ‘on a plinth’, these individually crafted characters make a commentary on the human ego as they playfully exude vanity, self-importance and vitality.

Artists’ Bio:
Kay Bazzard has been developing her clay sculpture-making skills through studio practice since 2004 having discovered the figurative form in clay while attending Eastern Institute of Technology Design School.

An inventive and intuitive artist who is comfortable with her own artistic process, she doesn’t begin with a specific image in mind; each work develops as the result of her focus and engagement with the evolving form and the process of creation itself. With it she explores the way attitude, emotion and physical movement combines to create vibrant and sensitive three-dimensional images.

The Fashionista Collection also involves the works of  Hawkes Bay artist Dali Susanto, as well as Lenie Johnson from Auckland. Both whom have crafted their own unique style of painting.