Kia ora,
I’m a Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Pūkeko artist, researcher, collective-member and mum based in Whakatāne, Aotearoa.
My practice explores land, relationships and soverignty through painting, performance and sculpture.
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Pan-Pacific Triennial
Archipelagic Encounters
Taitung, Taiwan
Oct 2026 - Feb 2027
A month long residency culminating in an exhibition at the Taiwan National Prehistory Museum. Inspired by matrilineal shellfish harvesting practices shared by Ngāti Hokopū in Whakatāne and Amis in Taitung, this project developed a series of friendship bracelet workshops for indigenous women in both places.
Middens made by she/shells (2026)
Plastic beads, glass beads, ceramic beads, shells, stones from Whakatāne and Taitung, freshwater pearls, greenstone, muka fibre, metal jewellery fixings.
Made by indigenous women in Whakatāne and Taitung.
Pipi Girls (2026)
5:49min
Single channel, digital video, colour, sound
Written and performed by Sarah Hudson, directed and edited by Rachel Anson.
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McCahon House together with founding partners STILL and Asia New Zealand Foundation, developed the Naoshima Artist in Residence, a new month-long residency opportunity for a New Zealand artist in Japan, to coincide with the Setouchi Triennale in 2025.
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Sarah split the residency into two, two week periods and traveled to the Seto Inland Sea in September 2024 and April 2025. Both in Japan, and at home, she produced a body of work made up of moving image, earth-pigment watercolours and sculpture entitled The Stones Remember, and I Listen.
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Curated by Sophie O’Brien, The Polyphonic Sea was housed at Bundanon in the Dharawal Country of south eastern Australia. Languages, both spoken and embedded in nature, are used as anchor points by the twelve artists from Aotearoa.
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Curated and commissioned by Hāmiora Bailey for Auckland Pride this work explores the whakatāuki ‘e kore a Parawhenuamea e haere ki te kore a Rakahore’ – freshwater does not go without rocks.
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The Caselberg Trust offers an annual fully-funded 3-month long residency on the Otago Peninsula. During the residency I focused on the Tūhoe concept of matemateāone - developing an earth-pigment archive which was returned to the land.
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An exhibition of painting, sculpture and moving image at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Dunedin.
re:place is the culmination of my time in Whakaohorahi Broad Bay on Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula in Ōtepoti between March and May 2022.
Commercial Design
Rooted in te ao Māori, shaped by nature, and refined through a photographer’s lens - my commercial design practice blends storytelling with impact. From branding to bespoke visuals, each piece speaks to place, identity, and connection.
