
Venerable Jue Hao and artist Tiffany Singh are preparing for the upcoming exhibiton at Fo Guang Shan Temple.
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Buddhism is at the heart of Tiffany Singh’s latest art installations.
The Auckland artist will have 12 works on display in her upcoming exhibition Mahabhuta: The Great Element ‘jointly presented at Uxbridge Centre for Arts and Culture and the Fo Guang Shan Temple.
The multi-sensory exhibition aims to bring together the diverse communities of East Auckland and explore what is sacred in contemporary society.
Singh sources her materials from Fair Trade organisations, including the 50 wind chimes which will make up an outdoor installation at the temple.
“Everything is nature based or responding to the elements. I don’t work with anything synthetic, so I work with materials such as flowers, foods, colours and sound,” she says.
But her signature work, which was made in Nepal, is an installation consisting of 900 ribbons with the medicine Buddha healing mantra written on them.