Anna Miles Gallery

Bed of Leaves

Vita Cochran, Rowan Panther, Tyrone Te Waa, Richard Stratton, Warwick Freeman, Marilyn Sainty, Peter Hawkesby, Karin Montgomery, Alex Whitfield

07/06/25 — 05/07/25

An exhibition named after a Vita Cochran hand-hooked rag rug opening 7 June 2-5pm. A Matariki salon of objects of useful, tactile, textile and botanical comfort.

Further images to come

Vita Cochran, Bed of Leaves, 2025
Hooked rag rug, cut woollen garments and fabric on cotton backing, 920 x 1400mm

Rowan Panther, Pohuehue, 2022
Muka, European Beech Stg.silver, 380 x 450mm

Rowan Panther, Kauri, 2022
Muka, European Beech Stg.silver, 380 x 450mm

Marilyn Sainty, Timber Chair ‘Prototype’, c 1990
Ash, restored by Emile Drescher, 2023, 864 x 475 x 490mm

Alex Whitfield, Wonky Chair, 2022
Laser cut aluminium (back and seat) and steel, grey hammertone powder-coat, 890 x 525 x 420mm
Courtesy Kiosk Store

Tyrone Te Waa, Smol God of home-cut bangs, 2025
Fabric, cotton, stretcher, found fringe, 260 x 180 x 25mm

Richard Stratton, Old Man of Storr, 2016
High fired hand-built coloured stonewares, 475 x c180mm

Peter Hawkesby, Dazylure May Vase, 2021
Ceramic, 230 H x c130mm Diameter

Peter Hawkesby, Dazylure June Vase, 2021
Ceramic, 260 H x c110mm Diameter

Tyrone Te Waa, KEKE, 2024
Timber, fabric, thread c780 x 370mm

Warwick Freeman, Black Leaf (brooch), 2004
Burnt wood, oxidised silver finding with stainless steel pin, c70 x 80mm

Warwick Freeman, Kawakawa Leaf (brooch), 2000
Pounamu, oxidised silver, stainless steel, 60 x 56 x 10mm

Warwick Freeman, Weed (brooch), 2005
Greenstone, silver, 90 x 35mm

Warwick Freeman, Karaka Leaf (brooch), 1997
Pounamu, oxidised silver, stainless steel, 110 x 45mm

Peter Hawkesby, Rotunda Performance, 2025
Ceramic including found components, 455 x 180 x 185mm

Karin Montgomery, Fagus Sylvatica Purpurea ‘Rage Branch’, 2024 (detail). Paper, wire, pigment, 280 x 340 x 1200mm

Tyrone Te Waa, Missed call from Ruru at 3am, 2025
Wool, cotton, stretcher, found fringe, 330 x 280 x 30mm

Marilyn Sainty, ‘Wire’ Chair, 1988
Waxed steel. 830 x 400 x 360mm

Peter Hawkesby, Grey Heat, 2025
Ceramic, 255H x 140 x 85mm

Richard Stratton, Mowed Verge with Growth Rings, 2023
Red and black clay, thrown and altered with green slip and manganese copper slips, 170mm x 60 x 130mm

Vita Cochran, Front Facing, 2024
Woollen coat pieces handstitched to wool and cotton backing, 1635 x 1030mm

Tyrone Te Waa, Scrappy and Tau, 2023 (with Samuel Montgomery)
Wool, thread, salvaged textiles with reclaimed kauri, chestnut and purple heart, 2500mm H and 2330mm H

Scrappy and Tau, 2023, detail of purple heart feet of plinths by Samuel Montgomery