
Monique Rush – Featured Artist Issue 7
I have considered myself to be an artist my whole life. It’s been an interest ever since I could hold a pencil at two and a half years old, when mum showed me how to draw circles.

I have considered myself to be an artist my whole life. It’s been an interest ever since I could hold a pencil at two and a half years old, when mum showed me how to draw circles.

I have lived in Whangamatā for over 50 years. I am passionate about landscape photography and our beach, as it is ever changing. I have 3 adult children and 12 grandies, and a beautiful border collie called Blue.

I have a huge passion for all art
and love, the euphoric energy
that comes from creating art that brings joy to someone.

My name is Bonnie and I am 9
years old.
I have liked art for quite a while.
Before I started school I did about anhour of art every day.

A major part of my work is to deconstruct the limits of anthropocentrism in surrealism and symbolism as we know it. I also try to question society’s constructions such as the idea of gender.

I have considered myself to be an artist my whole life. It’s been an interest ever since I could hold a pencil at two and a half years old, when mum showed me how to draw circles.

I have lived in Whangamatā for over 50 years. I am passionate about landscape photography and our beach, as it is ever changing. I have 3 adult children and 12 grandies, and a beautiful border collie called Blue.

I have a huge passion for all art
and love, the euphoric energy
that comes from creating art that brings joy to someone.

My name is Bonnie and I am 9
years old.
I have liked art for quite a while.
Before I started school I did about anhour of art every day.

A major part of my work is to deconstruct the limits of anthropocentrism in surrealism and symbolism as we know it. I also try to question society’s constructions such as the idea of gender.