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Otago Press

Thursday 17 April 2008
"Welding a view of NZ rural life"

Hannah Kidd is sporting a decent-sized burn on her right wrist when we meet in the Octagon. It's a war wound from her art.

Kidd (28) is the latest in a great tradition of New Zealand No 8 wire artists, creating works from well-used materials which have been discarded and forgotten.

Her first Dunedin exhibition in Milford Gallery, "The Locals'', is also a fascinating commentary on New Zealand rural life, from the rustic corrugated iron she uses to clothe her creatures, to the back-country methods she uses to create her art.

Her works also reflect prevailing attitudes in New Zealand towns. more....

Sculptor Hannah Kidd with Who the hell are you? (2008).

Next Magazine June 2005 Edition

Hannah Kidd arrives in a farm ute with a large corrugated-iron bull on the back. She and partner Richard Morris have had a frustrating morning. They've been trying to squeeze the 100kg sculpture into the lift of a Christchurch office building for delivery to a corporate client……..(download PDF file size 218kb)

Christchurch Press February 2003

Artist Hannah Kidd with one of her Budgie suicide series works, Scene 3, at her CoCA Gallery show in Christchurch…..(download PDF file size 264kb)

Ashburton Guardian 7th May 2002

Hannah Kidd a graduate of the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts has just finished her first solo exhibition in Christchurch........ (download PDF file size 461kb)

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