Claudia Jowitt is a Tāmaki-based maker whose practice explores the sculptural possibilities of paint, moving between the two and three-dimensional, employing a myriad of tools and kitchen implements - from icing bags and decorator tips to tile grouting combs - to squeeze, manipulate, and build paint onto her canvas. Paint, shells, coral, masi, and seaweed layered like sedimentary rock and forming these beautiful webs of delicate pastels, Jowitt pushes the boundaries of traditional definitions of what makes a painting, challenging the constraints of the canvas and frame in these rhythms of movement. 

Her current solo exhibition at Melanie Roger Gallery, Ua Levu, follows on from her recent solo presentation at the Dowse in Wellington, Uana: Carried by the Waves, presenting her work in a variety of forms – some more as paintings, others more as sculpture, as well as cyanotypes, too. 

Sof had a kōrero with Claudia Jowitt about Ua Levu and her wider practice.