Southern View: May 21, 2020

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Spreydon • Hoon Hay • Hillmorton • Cracroft
Cashmere • St Martins • Somerfield
Sydenham • Addington • Waltham • Opawa
Beckenham • Huntsbury • Woolston
Giving the voiceless a voice
• From page 1
Miss Davids said she wanted to
instil an emphasis on engagement
with communities across the board’s
jurisdiction, with a focus on giving
the voiceless a voice at a council level.
Her passion for helping others was
planted from an early age when her
mother would put her to work at the
Methodist Mission Food Bank as
opposed to putting her into holiday
programmes.
“I think it was really to avoid paying
for the holiday programmes because
they are really expensive and she was
on her own with three children, but
it was actually a really great time and
learning experience.”
She has worked in a wide range of
jobs which she believes has given her a
well-rounded perspective of her ward.
She worked in retail at Ballantynes,
in a hotel, an office for a car transmission
garage, where she even got to
rebuild a couple of transmissions, and
at a funeral home.
This is now Miss Davids’ third term
on the community board after first
being elected in 2013, she began this
term as deputy chairwoman.
She described her introduction to
local body politics as a “baptism of
fire.”
In 2013, when she ran for the then
Hagley-Ferrymead Ward for both
council and community board as
a 27-year-old, her billboards were
continuously being stolen and photos
of herself viewable on her Facebook
page, which media referred to as
“glamour shots,” attracted a lot of
publicity.
However, Miss Davids did not think
it was fair to call the photos “glamour
shots.”
“When I saw the articles calling
them glamour shots, I thought but I’m
not a glamour model at all, far from
it, I pity the people who had to look at
my shots,” she joked.
As stressful as this experience was,
Miss Davids felt it prepared her well
for what lied ahead in her political
career.
BUSY: Alongside
her new role as
chairwoman of
the community
board, Miss Davids
also serves in a
number of other
roles including
chairwoman
of Keep New
Zealand
Beautiful and
chairwoman of
Local Government
New Zealand’s
community
board executive
committee.
Aside from her new role, she is also
chairwoman for Local Government
New Zealand’s community board
executive committee, chairwoman
of both Keep Christchurch Beautiful
and Keep New Zealand Beautiful,
chairwoman of the Whitau School
board, a representative on LGNZ’s
young elected members committee
and a trustee of the Graeme Dingle
Foundation.
On top of this, she also manages
to find time to fulfil her duties
as a Resource Management Act
commissioner and role at the
Women’s Refuge.
Jacqui Gibbs Chamberlain
MoMents In tIMe
“We are currently all living in a time of unprecedented
uncertainty and disruption. It gives us a time to slow
down and to listen to our thoughts and reflect on what is
happening around us.
Our thoughts are influenced by what we listen to and
we are then challenged by what we assume we need
and to what is important. In every moment we now have
room to reflect and to embrace change. It has given
me the ability to entertain change and to open up my
imagination.
In these paintings I have tried to express this through
subject, colour and movement. I have allowed myself
to dream and to challenge my mind to new choices; to
create images representing energy and fun, expressing
love and dance, risk, and freedom to express. Food
replenishes love and caring. The flower presents beauty
and the art of giving. It is also a time to meet your
shadows, to let your mind play, to have a conversation
with yourself.
Freedom of thought and expression has no boundaries
to ones imagination. The art to create is a great
healer for me and is a way in which I can express and
communicate my thoughts, desires and feelings.
“Moments in time are special - embrace them, enjoy
them, celebrate and share them.” - Jacqui Gibbs
Chamberlain
While Jacqui’s subject matter is invariably the human
form, it is secondary to her exploring form, structure,
movement, colour and texture.
Jacqui lives and paints on an isolated farm in
Port Levy, Banks Peninsula with her husband and
daughter Phoebe.
Jacqui Gibbs Chamberlain at Little River Gallery
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