Sena Park’s practice considers the uneasy relationship between human-made environments and te taiao, with domestic gardens as a site of particular tension. Working across installation, painting, sculpture, photography and moving image, I touch the surface, we draw wild beauty reflects on our desire to shape, manage and define nature within private spaces.
Drawing on observations from Tāmaki Makaurau and Paihia, alongside travels in Mongolia and Japan, Park transforms the gallery into a series of framed encounters. Unstretched canvases hang from steel structures; synthetic fabrics and sculptural forms sit beside branches and plant matter. Photographs of gardens and a looping video of a lawn endlessly being mown introduce humour and critique. Together, the works reveal both the futility of control and the resilience of the natural world.
Sena Park is a Korean-born New Zealand artist working across painting, mixed media, and installation. Her practice is grounded in analogue, labour-intensive processes and has recently expanded to include sensory media. Park’s work often begins with familiar subjects drawn from nature, architecture and cultural environments, which she reconfigures into non-functional and deliberately imperfect forms. Her nomadic studio life shapes the materials, forms and scale of her work. Park completed an MFA at the Elam School of Fine Art at Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland in 2015.
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