Nina Mariette

Nina Mariette was born in 1946 in Europe and came to New Zealand when she was six. She grew up in a small provincial town, the only child in her class born outside of New Zealand. As an adult she battled with alcohol and drugs trying to escape the memories of her childhood abuse. Finally she found painting and writing as 'a powerful way of recognising my childhood abuse, of naming it, and of owning it in a way nothing else has come close to'.