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CAT FOOKS

On the ground floor of a former primary school building, the dilapidated timber-lined room is messy, paint-splattered and packed with finished pieces, works-in-progress, and rejects that may – depending on Fooks’ mood – live to fight another day. In 1982, the building was gifted to the local community and became the Onehunga Community House. As yoga classes and Toastmasters meetings unfold upstairs, Fooks gets down to the serious business of creating whole universes of objects

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