Raglan-based multidisciplinary artist Marise Rarere works across painting, sculpture, weaving and cast glass, bringing together diverse materials, techniques and ways of making within an evolving contemporary practice.

Rarere trained at Wintec before completing a Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Sculpture at RMIT University in Melbourne. Her artistic education has continued through specialist study in Toi Harakeke weaving and cast glass, allowing her practice to move fluidly between traditional processes and contemporary forms.

Material exploration sits at the heart of Rarere’s work. She is interested in how different materials hold their own qualities, histories and possibilities, and how these can be brought into conversation through art. From the tactile and organic qualities of harakeke to the permanence and luminosity of glass, each material offers a different way to investigate form, texture, structure and transformation.

Her multidisciplinary approach reflects a curiosity about process and a willingness to move beyond the boundaries of a single medium. Painting, sculpture, weaving and glass become interconnected rather than separate disciplines, allowing ideas to develop through making and experimentation.

Based in Raglan, Rarere contributes to the region’s vibrant contemporary arts community while continuing to develop a practice grounded in material, process and place.