a box for all the things, i'll never learn, 2025

Masterfully hand dyed & hand woven tapestries and clay works, artist from Ōtautahi. 

This collection has been made for her solo show at RM gallery. We have been showcasing for a special off-site show at Silo6 during the Aotearoa artfair season in 2026 with Public Record. 

Now they are available to purchase either individual or set of works. 

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WORKS:

- Spiral Handwoven bombyx mulberry silks, mild steel

-Threshold Handwoven silk tussah and noil silk, linen, mild steel 

-A box for all the things I’ll never learn Black stoneware 

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Statement:

I saw the tree with the metal leaves once more and anxiously tried to pluck one. Confused by the tension, I pulled harder and once the leaf severed the metal turned to glass, fracturing into infinite diaphanous shards scattering on the ground beneath. Down there they caught the twilight that had settled on the day and mirrored back the moon's evening face with a primeval gleam. Whispers began sneaking around the room, emerging from the edges of the broken glass echoing back the contents of my mind. A mirage of questions, slipped their way into the atmosphere, dancing around each other in a labyrinthine way. I reached out to catch them and they slid through my fingers, impossible to grasp, they found their comfort doing lengths around my ankles. I pickled up a fragment and began to wonder what else remained amongst the hidden things. 

In the form of an allegorical triptych, a box for all the things I'll never learn is a cyclical body of work exploring psychological tensions, the inner labyrinth and epiphany. 

The work invites you to walk into the spiral, pass the threshold and end with the box. Then return and begin again.

Bio:

Paige Jansen is an Ōhinehou Lyttelton based artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of materiality and embodiment. Working predominantly through handwoven textiles and movement, Jansen composes work that seeks to reveal the intimate textures of experience and the subtle presences that surround us. Her making is formed through intuitive, embodied enquiry, blending poetic attention to material with philosophical explorations of the intangible. 

Jansen is particularly drawn to threshold spaces, forces that cannot fully be seen yet leave a palpable presence. Through her work she aims to make these invisible relationships tangible, offering audiences a heightened capacity to glimpse our interconnectedness with the natural world, human relationships and the poetics of existence. 

This work was first created for her exhibition at RM gallery, which opened in September 2025, and was one part of a larger triptych completed over the last two years.

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Hand-dyed & crafted in Lyttelton, New Zealand