Ken Faber 
Artist | Muralist

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Ken Faber (they/he) is a painter and mixed media sculptor based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their current media of choice include egg tempera paintings and sculptural amalgamations of animal fur, seaglass, stone, and wood; materials gathered and mixed by hand, imbuing them with meticulous care. They combine their studies of fine arts and anthropology to question the innate ideologies people hold about human nature, thereby collapsing binaries of Eurocentrism, chronocentrism, and anthropocentrism.

His artwork is imbued with a sense of lived being, exploring non-human personhood to express the loss of agency in an ending world, connecting to his experience of his autonomy, community, and sense of humanity stripped from him because of his gender identity and disability. Their artwork captures the grief in the inevitability of the end by collapsing the Cretaceous and Capitalocene extinctions: wrestling with change for better or for worse. 

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