WALLFLOWER: This piece of digital collage by VHoy Creative as part of the Passport Collection showcases Gisborne makeup artist Kyle De Thier aka Kylee Fleek. Picture by VHoy Creative
V Hoy is a multidisciplinary artist, specialising in surrealist photography as well as dream-like portraiture. She is a graffiti aficionado and produces large-scale paint works.
Her latest photo series, Passport Collection, aims to challenge the ideas and impacts of social and cultural labelling. In a contemporary world where people identify
as multi-ethnic, constantly affected by the barbs of racism, diaspora and cultural integration and separation, it is poignant that these concerns are still topical.
Vee Hoy's photographic exploration of diversity in identification is on at the Tairawhiti Museum until April 25.
