Hannah Kidd | In the Night Garden

As kaitiaki of her tiny block of Waitaha land, artist Hannah Kidd (Ngāti Toa) has witnessed regular nightly devastation of her newly planted natives. Preyed upon by both native and introduced species, Hannah tips the scales on her life-size, freestanding hare with large, oversized wall-hung Kōwhai pods and seeds—referencing both a struggle for survival locally and displacement and colonisation globally.

Hannah graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts—majoring in Sculpture—in 2001 from the Dunedin School of Fine Art, Otago Polytechnic, exhibiting nationally and internationally.