DEPOT Artist

Janet Mazenier

Janet Mazenier is a Te Hau Kapua (Devonport) painter made in Ireland and born in Aotearoa. Her work speaks to the spirit of places that she explores, their genius loci. Currently in the final year of PhD candidature (Creative Practice) at AUT University she is actively researching her ancestral home of Ireland by undertaking multiple residencies. Recently a finalist in the Waikato Painting and Printmaking Awards 2025, in 2024 her work Mudflats won the main Painting Award. Janet holds a BFA and MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and was awarded a scholarship to undertake her PhD in Creative Practice at AUT University. “My abstract art practice explores themes of place, time, affect, world bending and materiality. My drawn paintings feature richly textured, excavated surfaces that speak to ancientness, the unseen, and the ephemeral. With diasporic Irish heritage, my research considers what it means to be a contemporary artist living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand, using my art practice as a lens to explore memory and place and how painting can connect me to these elements.”

Currently available works by Janet Mazenier