Shelley Te Haara: La Maison Derrière

Opening in Project Space
Saturday 8 November 2 – 3.30pm

In the exhibition La Maison Derrière, Shelley Te Haara has painted a series of housewives in a “cute and classy” way. The paintings depict women cleaning the bathroom, baking, pouring a drink, doing the dishes, cleaning the kitchen and hanging the washing.

“It is an outdated belief that a woman’s only place is in the kitchen. Both men and women are now doing house duties as well as having a full-time job and other things going on in their lives. So I thought this series would be a bit of a play on the past and the present.”

Shelley delivers this to us in a series of 7 very small oil paintings. She had just started using oil paints when she got the idea for this series. She then decided to challenge herself and paint on a very small scale and this is the result. “It is definitely a series I am very proud of. I am excited to finally be able to share the original paintings with the public.”