This Way Up Books copper and sterling silver hoops

copper and sterling silver hoops

'aroha mai aroha atu'love received

Oak frame: 260mm x 710mm

Ruby Rock (Goodletite) is unique to New Zealand

Print Size includes matt and foam backing:

This Way Up Books copper and sterling silver hoopsenamel on board 2025 1200 x 900 A quieter yet profoundly symbolic work, This Way Up, focuses on Aotearoa New Zealand itself. Lambert has painted the country but flipped it upside down. The composition draws on a memory from his teenage years working the pea harvest in Hastings, where a Maori student who attended Te Aute College once said, Im going up to Dunedin. The phrase stuck with Lambert, disrupting the North is up, South is down orientation