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Siobhan Cox – Artwork

Hi, I’m Siobhan Cox. I’m currently in my last year at Mercury Bay Area School. I’ve been in practical painting for two years at MBAS, now going into my third year.

I was awarded the Mercury Bay Art Escape Recipient Scholarship in 2023, which gave me the chance to sell my first painting.

I will go on to do one-on-one sessions with local artists to learn new techniques and experience with new media.

My last year’s work is based on the extinction of New Zealand birds and being aware of our changing environments and the factors that will impact our wildlife. I used the native Huia for an example of extinction and Fantails as a cultural aspect to my paintings, with their meaning signifying sickness and death. 

Do You Believe In Magic

Ever wonder what hides beneath the clouds as they fall from the sky like blankets on our Mountains.

Ever wondered what they’re covering for us unable to see

Is it magic? 

Or just a moment in time where it stands still.

Not showing us what lies beneath 

Do the birds still fly?

What magic is beneath the white cloak that covers our hills

Is it Magic?

Do we really need to know?

Or do we just have a need of wanting to know the magic.

Do You Believe in Magic?

Words by Denise Allen

The Places I Write About

a million stones asleep 

down on the train tracks

them hours burning past eleven, 

the station clocks on fire

night of mundane faces

strangers stand still

under concrete skies and

sun-like lights

a train approaches, a distant light

where to? 

that city breathes people in

and ghosts of delicate shells

come out

wandering about 

cold, sleepless metal-machines

beneath rusted transmission lines

moving to the outskirts

of memory itself,

where all dreams perish,

bodies stand still

and remain faceless

forevermore,

going nowhere

Words by Fauze Hassen

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