Ayesha Green
Ayesha Green sustains a provocative engagement with processes of reproduction. She utilises mimicry and copying to undermine the authority of symbolic objects, questioning the authenticity of their claims to power.
Ayesha Green (Ngāti Kahungunu, Kai Tahu) is a contemporart Māori Artist. Born 1987, Hamilton, she ives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.
“In her studio-based practice, Ayesha Green sustains a provocative engagement with processes of reproduction. By her own admission, Green utilises mimicry and copying to undermine the authority of symbolic objects, questioning the authenticity of their claims to power. While giving precedence to source material from the era of first contact between Māori and Pākehā, Green continues to draw on a wide range of references. Attempting to transmute the power of inherited objects and images by establishing new reading’s, Green thus pushes back at European-centric practices of anthropology and classification, and the demonstrable military and cultural domination of our shared colonial history.”
Elle Loui August
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Agnes, 2021
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Ayesha, 2021
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Ayesha #1, 2021
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Ayesha #2 , 2021
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Ayesha #3 , 2021
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Ayesha #4, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #1, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #2, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #3, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #4, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #4, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #5, 2021
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Bouquet for Jameela #6, 2021
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In the beginning, 2021
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Lukas’ First Da, 2021
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Mother, 2021
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Mum on her wedding day, 2021
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Nana on her wedding day, 2021
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Passport #1, 2021
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Passport #2, 2021
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Passport #3, 2021
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Retribution (diptych), 2021
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Standing at the Beginning, 2021
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The arrival of Mere, 2021
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The science of ideas, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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All of my Lovers are Immigrants (Smooth my Pillow) (diptych, 2020
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Ayesha’s First Day, 2020
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Bouquet for Jameela #8, 2020
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (13 February), 2020
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (21 March), 2020
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (9 March), 2020
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (November 3rd), 2020
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Eve Eats (Cook’s Scurvy-Grass),, 2020
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Eve Eats (New Zealand Spinach), 2020
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I thought I heard you crying in the Forest, 2020
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Jordan’s First Day, 2020
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Kurawaka, 2020
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Landscape Painting, 2020
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Mum (May 1985), 2020
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My mother (thinking of the horizon), 2020
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Scenic Beauty, 2020
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The Harvest, 2020
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Ayesha, 2019
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Ayesha Lukas and Jordan at Nana and Granddads, 2019
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Ayesha Lukas and Jordan on the tramp, 2019
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Bathroom, 2019
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Bedroom, 2019
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Buckingham, 2019
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Catherine, 2019
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Christina, 2019
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Fossils (Things in the Ground), 2019
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Kensington, 2019
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Lukas Jordan and Ayesha at the beach, 2019
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Outside, 2019
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Richmond, 2019
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Wild Flowers (Things that Grow), 2019
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Meeting Grounds (1), 2018
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Meeting Grounds (2), 2018
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Soil from Papa (diptych), 2018
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After School #2, 2017
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For Hine, 2017
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Library, 2017
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The cultural biography of things, 2017
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Nana and Grandad, 1994 (New Zealand Gothic), 2016
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Self by Others, Ayesha Green, Elisabeth Pointon, Christopher Ulutupu, Claudia Kogachi, Caitlin Devoy, Robbie Handcock
1 - 18 Dec 2021Group Exhibition, Self by Others. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Ayesha Green, Good Citizen
13 May - 5 Jun 2021Ayesha Green, Good Citizen. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more -
Auckland Art Fair, The Right Place?
24 - 28 Feb 2021Auckland Art Fair, The Right Place?. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Group Exhibition, He Tohu
18 Jun - 11 Jul 2020He Tohu, Ayesha Green, Kauri Hawkins, Maioha Kara, Nikau Hindin. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Ayesha Green, Elizabeth the First
1 - 24 Aug 2019Ayesha Green, Elizabeth the First. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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The psychogeographers' Dream
David Eggleton, Art News New Zealand -
Undermining the original, copying to create: an interview with Ayesha Green
Lucinda Bennett -
Ayesha Green: Ways of Seeing
Rose of Sharon Leake, Art Edit AU, June 1, 2021 -
Ayesha Green, Good Citizen
Matariki Williams, Exhibition essay, May 13, 2021 -
Reparative Intimacy
Robyn Maree Pickens, Art Now, March 26, 2021 -
Meet Ayesha Green, The Artist Unearthing The Language Of Flowers
Ginny Fisher, Viva, February 24, 2021 -
Shaping Aotearoa
Issac Taylor, M2Women, September 23, 2020 -
Public art work to function as gateway
Grant Miller, Otago Daily Times, June 10, 2020 -
A Constant Unpacking
Art News New Zealand, December 22, 2019 -
Nana's Birthday, by Ayesha Green, wins NZ Contemporary Arts Award
Radio New Zealand, August 2, 2019 -
The origins of table manners
Elle Loui, Matters Aotearoa, Issue 8, August 1, 2019 -
Issue 89
Francis McWhannell, Art Collector, July 1, 2019 -
Māori Girl
Tia Pohatu, Hamster, Issue 4, May 1, 2019 -
Here and now, exhibition catalogue
Malcom Smith Gallery, September 28, 2018 -
Ayesha Green - Dunedin
Edward Hanfling, Art New Zealand, Issue 169, September 23, 2018 -
(Un)conditional III
Jamie Hanton, The physics room, August 2, 2018 -
Ayesha Green
Lucinda Bennett, Art Collector Issue 84, April 1, 2018 -
(Un)conditional II
Sarah McClintock and Jamie Hanton, The Physics room, March 18, 2018 -
Art Zone Interview
Lily Hacking, ArtZone, January 16, 2018 -
Greener Pastures
Lily Hacking, ArtZone, Issue 70, July 1, 2017