Phoebe Gray - Artist.

Phoebe has been composing music since age 6 and taught herself piano from age 10, guitar at age12 and turned to art-making around her teenage years. These have been the primal ways Phoebe expresses herself.

Trained in Composition at Canterbury University, Phoebe developed her interests further. As a guest lecturer within the newly (at the time) established Feminist Studies programme at the University in the 1980’s she presented many compositions and performative works. She collaborated with sculptor Megan Huffadine and others. Her spiritual performances were considered highly esoteric by some members of the music faculty. These featured costume, sculpture and other immersive media like colour, lighting and scent. These also would usually include audience participation.

Phoebe was interviewed on Nightline and the Sunday Star Times in 1990 and later sang at an international singing performance in China in 1995 ; these events are all well documented within the book of Curriculum Vitae she maintains.

Phoebe has only recently joined the Pablos Art Studio in order to gain the same empowerment from art-making as she did with composition. A migraine disorder and associative co-morbidities inhibited Phoebe’s continuation as a musical performer. This she has achieved through quiet lyrical paintings developed with watercolour and mixed media, chalk drawing, and photography.

~ Phoebe Gray 2022

Unfolding by Phoebe Gray

Unfolding is a mixed-media artwork on A3 paper. It is multi layered to build a verdant, lush, forest background. This is then overlaid with an unfolding koru, the essence of the piece.