RAEWYN BIGGS ARTWORK - Dust Bunny #7- A Tidy House Exhibition Series

Raewyn Biggs- Dust Bunnies
These small wall-mounted rabbits are carved from discarded pink marine floats, collected on and around the artist’s island home.

 Once considered rubbish, the material is reimagined into playful “dust bunnies” that allude to the overlooked corners of domestic life. Each piece is further adorned with traditionally woven fibres, creating a dialogue between waste and craft, the everyday and the cultural.

Presented within A Tidy House, the works invite us to consider how both our homes and our environments hold traces of what we discard, transform, and cherish.

A Tidy House Exhibition (2024-2025)  featured new work by the art collective Sixfold Project – Raewyn Biggs, Barbara Dover, Louisa Ennis-Thomas, Julie Poulsen, Rose Rigley and Jennifer Valmadre. These contemporary artists engaged with the complexities of the home in inventive and diverse ways.

Exploring the home/house dichotomy, they presented interpretations of the universal, familiar, and tangible architectural structure. Yet the home was shown above all as a private and personal realm where much of life is experienced internally.

During a period of environmental, economic and social change, this examination of ‘the home’ proved especially timely. For many, the home was a place of comfort, refuge and security; for others, it reflected loneliness, displacement or difficulty.

Across our lives, the house remained central. As children, we played house: making, building, imagining and rehearsing for the time when we would create and occupy our own living spaces as adults.

In A Tidy House, the Sixfold Project artists drew on their multidisciplinary practices to investigate the enduring significance of the house in all our lives.

About Raewyn Biggs

Raewyn Biggs is a mixed media artist working across sculpture, painting, and assemblage. Her Polynesian heritage strongly informs her practice, which explores cultural change, identity, and the interplay between natural and man-made materials.

Born in New Zealand, raised in Australia, and now based in the Cook Islands, Raewyn’s art is shaped by her cross-cultural experiences across the Pacific. Since completing a Diploma of Visual Art at Tropical North Queensland TAFE in 2011, she has been part of the artist collective Sixfold, whose members continue to inspire and support her practice.

Raewyn currently lives on Penrhyn Island, also known as Tongareva in the Cook Islands.