NZ BioCup Art Series
NZ BioCup Art Series
BioPak makes the ordinary extraordinary by offering the humble paper cup as a canvas to promote six talented New Zealand artists and connect consumers to the environment.
From October 20th, six different New Zealand artists will have their artwork featured on 8oz and 12oz single wall BioCups. The artworks and artists will change every three months.
With the fast pace of life in the 21st century, people rarely take the time to connect with nature. We hope that the BioCup Art Series inspires you to stop and appreciate the natural beauty that is all around.
Reuse: And now instead of thoughtlessly discarding your empty cup, keep these beautiful works of art as storage containers or plant pots to brighten up your workspace.
BioCups don’t just look good, by choosing these cups you help do good. All BioCups are certified carbon neutral, are made from rapidly renewable, sustainably sourced raw materials and 1% of all BioPak profits are donated to Rainforest Rescue.
Artist statements
Whakatere by
Johnson Witehira
Johnson Witehira designed an
artwork specifically for this cup series, named Whakatere,
it is based on a pattern known in Maori culture as puhoro.
The puhoro pattern appears in painted kowhaiwhai (designs on
the rafters of marae, or meeting houses) as a form in
traditional ta moko (Maori tattoo) and on the undersides of
waka (canoe) as they slip through the water. Wherever it
appears, the pattern signifies speed, flow, and continuity.
For this cup, Witehira plays with the puhuro form to create
a new, distorted pattern that mimics the effects of a
caffeine hit. Coffee is fuel for everyday life, giving the
drinker a boost through the world. A modern puhuro pattern
for everyday acceleration.
Lake Pukaki by Katrina
McGettigan
Karina McGettigan paints the
turquoise ribbon of Lake Pukaki and New Zealand’s ancient
glacier’s, with the highest peak Aoraki Mt Cook dominating
the scene. At a time when we are aware of how under threat
our oceans, rivers, lakes and natural environment McGettigen
“would like to highlight the importance of individual and
group responsibility to preserve and protect our country. It
is time to take positive action to care for and protect our
unique paradise at the bottom of the
world.”
Curiosity Cabinet Series by Hannah
Jensen
Hannah Jensen’s works from her show
CURIOSITY CABINET 2013 referenced Kiwiana themes; influenced
by turn of the century New Zealand postage stamp designs.
Jensen achieves the specific effect of her work by applying
layers of paint to board before employing printmaking
techniques such as intaglio, etching and carving to create
thematic content. The results are detailed images rendered
in negative relief that emphasises the texture and tonal
variations between paint colours in a topographical manner.
Using anywhere between 25 - 75 layers of paint, Jensen
calculates the depth of each layer to provide the necessary
variations of colour, texture and shadow in the
work.
Portals to Summer by Anna
Evans
Portals to Summer is a series of round
Acrylic paintings on wooden panel depicting birds and flora
native to New Zealand, inspired by the Hibiscus Coast north
of Auckland. Anna Evans' paintings take on their own twist
with her unique use of explosive and vivid colour. A firm
believer in conservation Anna spends a lot of time in New
Zealand's national and regional parks looking at the native
species and imagining a time long before colonization when
birds dominated the landscape, uninhibited by human
interference. These paintings are a tribute to the wonderful
Department of Conservation protected bird-life found in
Shakespear Park and Tiri Tiri Matangi sanctuaries. The Tui
(a regular feature of Anna's paintings) represents the
endurance of a species that is constantly under threat by
continuing development, a bird that seems to defy all odds
and survive all the challenges human colonisation throws at
it.
Vinegar Hill by Tammie Rose
Riddle
Vinegar Hill painting is about saving our
land, that we belong to, so it can save us. “Carving out
new scars in this rugged landscape on the edge. It’s a
long way to paradise, so it’s worth fighting for, it’s a
beauty this place that no shadow can touch this place, my
land.” Tammie Riddle is a self taught artist influenced by
early modernist traditions of painting. The use of Cubism
gives depth to her artwork by using multiple and contrasting
viewpoints.
Natural Selection by William
Eckloff
My work aims at integrating the man-made
world with the natural environment by drawing on and
highlighting parallels between these two very distinct and
separate worlds. ‘Natural Selection’ illustrates a
continuous natural process that is endemic to New Zealand,
and stresses the importance of the creatures depicted in
this work in maintaining our current environmental
conditions
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