These works represent the new Zealand phanomenon „bach“ (/ˈbætʃ/) - a small, often very modest holiday home or beach house. Baches are an iconic part of the country's history and culture. After World War II they began to gain popularity and symbolised the beach holiday lifestyle that was becoming more accessible to the middle class.

Each assemblage refers by it‘s chosen materials and the way they are assembled to the way the baches were originally constructed - they were almost always small structures, usually made of cheap or recycled material.


The works are from small size, squary form and largely made from found objects and materials. These materials were collected either from site of the property where the artist lives or directly on the beach.

Parts coming from the beach might possibly have been parts of baches in the past before they were taken by the sea, washed away and stranded again.


The property the artist resides in, located upon a beach, has probably been an earlier bach set-up which was extended and improved time after time over the years. The house is surrounded by bush, but there are traces of past constructions. Little pieces of wood, tiles, foam were found and kept and now re-assembled.

Every work is kept simple in construction. The number of used items is kept low and the color scheme is limited. Early baches rarely enjoyed amenities like connections to the water and electricity grid or indoor toilets. They were furnished basically, often with second hand furniture.
The pieces are assembled in a spontaneous way, using "professional" building materials like nails, staples, silicone ect in a "non-professional" way. The action of assembling the pieces together refers to a more or less fast, non-professional hobby act of constructing a bach by a family member in the past.
In some works brand new pieces such as furniture pads or little golden nails are used to link to what owning a bach meant to those middle class families in the past, even if it was just a small building made from scrap. Baches made beach holiday affordable, possible and gave a feeling of leisure and luxurious lifestyle. So they have been kept up, looked after, work needed to be done from time to time, some new things added to protect the existing set-up. Like furniture protectors protecting wood from scratches.
In more recent times the basic bach has been replaced by the modern "holiday house", more substantial, more expensive and usually professionally built. 
The old style baches will recede from now over time. They will be replaced by new buildings, renovated, taken down, taken by erosion and so on. But they were witnesses and result of a time period and in their own way beautiful.

Nadine Meyers wants to praise the beauty of the old baches with their eroded, faded, broken, chipped, fringed, rusted materials in her works and keep them alive.