Louise McRae's young life was spent on isolated land on the Kaipara Harbour riding the coast with the birds imagining my world. Years later, art found Louise and she became interested in material, how it operates and the moment it fails.

She enjoys the link between the process of making and living. The challenge of following curiosity, and excitement tips into vulnerability and hopefully simmers and reduces into a kind of wisdom.

Satisfaction comes when all the elements come together in a kind of alchemy, and the work sings with intention generating more than the sum of its parts.