Janet Mazenier - Contemporary visual artist
About this episode
Janet Mazenier discusses her contemporary visual art practice and the themes of her work.
Janet Mazenier is a contemporary visual artist living in Te Hau Kapua Devonport in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Janet's practice engages with place, time, affect, world bending, and materiality. Her drawn-paintings are characterised by texturally rich, excavated, and striated surfaces that evoke ancientness, the hidden, the unseen, and the ephemeral. Janet's paintings are created using oil paint mixed with beeswax (known as cold wax medium), enabling a low-toxic practice that results in beautifu...
People in this episode
Host: Mandy Jakich
Guest: Janet Mazenier
Topics covered
- contemporary art
- visual arts
- painting techniques
- materiality
- artistic practice
Keywords
- contemporary visual artist
- drawn-paintings
- cold wax medium
- oil paint
- artistic process
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Te Hau Kapua Devonport, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
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