Here is part 2 of the ‘Hidden Oddities’ comprehensive review by ARTbop’s Rotorua correspondent Miriam Ruberl.
If you’ve read Part 1, then this Part 2 takes the ‘Oddity’ to another level.
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HIDDEN ODDITIES ARTICLE PART 2
Rotorua-based artist and arts journalist, Miriam Ruberl
Miriam Ruberl is a mixed media, experimental artist currently living in Rotorua. She likes working with every day materials such as locally harvested red ochre, calico, waxes of various sorts, combining them in ways that surprise and remind people of days gone by. Her focus is on making increasingly authentic, personally generated nature-inspired art, to the neglect of illustrative, representational and derivative or “second-hand” art.
Miriam has exhibited extensively throughout the North Island, leads workshops from time to time, and is active in a variety of local activities.
“There are a number of immensely talented, independent, full time artists in various mediums in the area, which provides me with a rich social and artistic life, as well as the inspirational environment of forests, lakes, and geothermal activity”, says Miriam.
