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Alice Fennessy is an artist from Te Papaioea, Aotearoa. She uses drawing and painting to convey themes such as memory, domestic life and interior worlds. Her work is currently intertwined with motherhood as she raises her two young children. She finds herself endlessly fascinated by the juxtapositions or dualities thrown up by pregnancy and motherhood, how these experiences can be simultaneously beautiful and ugly, ordinary and other, tender and excruciating. Her work explores these spaces through materials and compositions; disparate images from fleeting moments drawn together in stark tones on surfaces such as paper, silk or aluminium. Her work aims to be sensitive and vulnerable, casting light on experiences of life often disregarded.