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STEPH MAC
FEMININE PROPHETESS OF CREATION
ORIGINAL ART
ORIGINAL ART
IN PRINT
[Left to Right]
Makeup Artistry - Southland Makeup Artist of the Year (Left Page)
DreamWings Mural in Inner CBD Redevelopment Project (Right Page)
Collaboration with FlourBro - Painted Sourdough for Southland Calendar
to see my makeup artistry work, please see makeup artistry
MURALS
PAST WORK:
Commissioned Mural for GreatSouth
Hedgehope School Mural: Ki Uta Ki Tai
Matariki Festival Wings at Feldwick Gates, Invercargill
11 Murals in Inner CBD for City Re-Development Project, including DreamWings
Tommy's Food Truck
Uncle's Food Truck
Community Garden at SouthAlive [Urban Re-Development Project, Invercargill]
Mural for Hot Yoga, Invercargill
and more
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MATARIKI 2024
MURAL WITH ENVIRONMENT SOUTHLAND
Facilitated creative process for staff to co-create an expression of 'Matariki'
ENVIRONMENT SOUTHLAND MURALS 2024
NEW CAFE UPGRADE
Three original designs
*This was not a paid project. I donated my time and skills for free.
DESIGN 1: HE TIKI
DESIGN 2: KORU
DESIGN 3: TUI
HEDGEHOPE SCHOOL MURAL
'Ki uta ki tai'
2023
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EDUCATION
I have developed a curriculum that supports children with:
tapping into their senses
being more connected with the natural environment
expressing different aspects of creativity
learning to translate what they see onto paper
supporting somatic processing
supporting the natural flow of the mountains to the sea
A workbook is included for the children to follow their journey, write the process they discovered as well as the tools and techniques they experienced
There is a process over 4-10 weeks with weekly classes for students, or shorter workshops available.
ART WORKSHOPS
ABSTRACT ART, RIVERTON. 13 MARCH, 2021
MANA WAHINE WOMEN'S RETREAT, COLAC BAY
ABSTRACT ART IN THE FOREST, 2024 - Riverton
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CREATIVE WORKSHOPS WITH HEDGEHOPE SCHOOL, 2023
(6 TOTAL, 1 IN FOREST)
FRONTLINE WORK FUNCTION ABSTRACT ART WORKSHOP
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REWILD RETREATS
ART WORKSHOP - SOUTHERN EDUCATION, AUGUST 2024
EXHIBITIONS
WINGS
MY PROCESS
I HAVE INFUSED CREATIVITY WITH PSYCHOLOGY AND SOUL.
I like to paint physical representations of 'Death and Rebirth' - also known as soul initiation.
All of my paintings start out as very abstract and expressive pieces. I become a clear channel and paint what flows through me. I never know what something is going to become; it's a process of trusting, allowing and surrendering to the creative process.
How they start is never how they finish - and this is how I have learned to heal myself and transform myself through creative art.
How it started (left)
How it finished (right)
My understanding: The left was my 'shadow' and parts of myself I was not accepting. Revealing pain to ourselves helps us to see, acknowledge and actually forgive and release it. Through sitting with this pain, I cleared the way for internal purification, peace and vision - being able to see and feel clearly, as represented on the right.
it never makes sense until it all makes sense. Something I live by.
This is how 90% of my paintings are born.
