Brydee Rood
Vinyl loop matting with TGSI
It is Rood's passion to investigate the inhabited world in a way
that questions the impact of human consumption on the environment.
By her re-use of man-made plastics and waste she overturns
traditional interpretation and opens space for ideas and
imagination beyond everyday existence.
In Piwakawaka en Route Point 1 & 2 Rood scrutinises
road-works and waste management, mixing ideas of the pedestrian and
the surrounding habitat and questioning, through playful visual
experiment, how we pass through this environment: she breaks the
headland SCULPTURE ON THE GULF
pathway at two points and interrupts the viewer's route with
surprises. 'I have chosen to work with the piwakawaka because it is
the very same bird which frequented my walk, chirruping alongside,
playfully confronting my passage as I selected sites to work
with'.
Brydee Rood grew up in Auckland and graduated with a Bachelor of
Fine Arts from Elam with a specialisation in painting in 1999. In
2006 she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in interdisciplinary
practice.
Rood has lived, worked and exhibited in Japan (2001) and in
Mexico (2003) and she has exhibited in Australia. She maintains
ongoing relationships with artists and galleries in Germany and
Japan dedicated to the collaboration, sharing and exchange of ideas
and friendship between nations and artists.
Rood is a member of the newly-established collective
Nature's Ninja's -four women artists in Auckland who are
educating people about climate change. Projects include
Rrrr!, a taiko drumming waste-minimisation chant using
200-litre plastic rubbish bins; Nature's Ninja's Plant
Stall at the Starving Artist Fair '08 and Nature's Ninjas
Endangered NZ Frog Talk.
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