Graduate Art Exhibitions: Anitarewa Robertson & Kristina Rachacova

Bachelor of Creative Industries and Te Ara o Mauao Gallery are pleased to present two graduate solo exhibitions for 2026, featuring, Anitarewa Robertson and Kristina Rachacova.

Working across sculpture, painting, installation and ceramics, Robertson and Rachacova examine the ways material holds memory, identity and lived experience. While their practices emerge from distinct perspectives, both artists engage process as a form of enquiry, using material as a site of transformation, connection and reflection.

In Windows, Anitarewa Robertson assembles found domestic and building materials into sculptural installations that draw on fragments of childhood, place and memory. Through acts of collecting, reconfiguring and layering, discarded materials become carriers of personal and collective histories, revealing networks of connection between people, objects and place.

Kristina Rachacova's ceramic vessels and paintings respond to systems of hierarchy and constructed ideals of perfection through an embodied exploration of the feminine. Rooted in gesture and touch, her work embraces complexity, adaptability and cyclical change, where clay becomes a material language for resilience, intimacy, care and transformation.

Together, these exhibitions present two emerging artists whose materially driven practices invite audiences to consider how objects, surfaces and processes can hold and communicate the complexities of memory, identity and belonging.