Lee-Ann Dixon

Originally from Marlborough, I have been in Nelson since leaving school. I graduated from NIMT in 2005 with a bachelor of Visual Arts. Since then I have been juggling my art practice with raising my four children and work.

As my life changes so does my artwork . Mostly it is an ongoing theme of motherhood and domesticity. As my children grow older I have more time to reflect and remember my own childhood and identity.

My subject matter reflects the faze of life I am in, when the kids were smaller it was tea cups and tea pots referring to nurture, family and precious time out for a stressed Mum. Now it's moths, birds, animal skulls and even teddies.

I work on recycled silver trays, this was born from watching my late mother's China cabinet full of her treasures she had collected and the special memories attached to them.