The exhibition’s title ‘Our Frocks Like Mountains’ assertively signals this is not for the faint hearted. Working with historic photographs sourced from the Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Gore Historical Museum and Riverton/Aparima Heritage Society, her selection presents a broad representation of women of different ages, social status and race. At first glance the paintings suggest a tableaux of benign domestication however their re-rendering portrays an alternative; a restlessness akin to the tectonic forces which shape the snow-flanked mountain ranges dominating the skyline in Riverton where DeSoto worked.

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