I touch the surface, we draw wild beauty

Sena Park, I touch the surface, we draw wild beauty, 2025.

upcoming
31 Jan – 14 Mar 2026

Sena Park

I touch the surface, we draw wild beauty features new work by Sena Park, who is contemplating the contradictions and evolving relationships between human-designed environments and natural ecosystems. Drawing inspiration from her everyday observations across several domestic environments, including Auckland CBD and Paihia, Park explores the blurry line between natural and artificial environments. This exhibition explores how tension that she has witnessed in these spaces, where human intervention has such a strong impact, quietly shapes how we understand nature and ourselves. Incorporating installation, photography, and moving image, Park uses natural and synthetic materials to evoke the natural world while highlighting its increasingly controlled presentation. Park questions our relationship with te taiao while also celebrating its adaptability and resilience.

Sena Park is a Korean-born New Zealand artist working across painting, mixed media, and installation. Her practice is grounded in analogue, labor-intensive processes and has recently expanded to include sensory media.

Park’s work often begins with familiar subjects drawn from surrounding nature, architectural and cultural environments, which she reconfigures into non-functional and deliberately imperfect forms in her installations. Her nomadic studio life shapes the materials, forms, and scale of her work.

Park completed an MFA from Elam in 2015. She has since undertaken residencies in Mongolia, Thailand, China, Japan, and New Zealand.