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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