Exhibitions

'Exposure', Massey University Graduate Exhibition , 2022

Exploring the relationship to mind and body through automatic drawing and painting, my practice allows me to create works straight from my unconscious emotions, senses and memory.

My art becomes a raw translation of my current state of mind and body as I create a visible journey of vulnerable, raw gestures that then disappear from sight unless time is spent to study the depths underneath the surface.

https://exposure2022.massey.ac.nz/students/fine-arts/elana-spod/

'sincerely, yours', TwentySix Gallery, 2022

[enclosed] a love letter for time spent 20-24 September 2022 Bringing together the works of eight artists in their final year at the School of Art, ‘Sincerely, yours’ explores each artist’s relationship to the self, using interdisciplinary approaches to express moments of vulnerability, tension and tenderness within themes of gender and identity. This exhibition nods to the love letter as a motif to invite audiences in; establishing the roles of subject and viewer whilst acknowledging authorship - signifying a sincere conclusion to our undergraduates as artists and designers. https://twentysix.co.nz/sincerely-yours Featuring: Charlotte Barnes, Margaux Febvre-Richards, Olivia Silby, Elana Spod, Samson Dell, Tayla Prutton, Mariama Hunia, Jess Trimble

'Revelations of the Vulnerable', Massey University, 2021

Our exhibition works to unravel your perceptions of the body. Through ideas of intimacy, the sensorium, flesh and identity. We wish to evoke revelations; with the use of queer, feminist and intimate voices and their attached bodies of work. Featuring: Elana Spod, Tayla Prutton, Olivia Silby, Kiran Morar, Jess Trimble and Abel Chisnall.