[2] In 1993, along with others such as the musician Peter Stapleton, she relocated to Dunedin where she participated in the city's "‘free noise’ scene", and was instrumental in establishing the Metonymic record label (1996) and the experimental film and music festival Lines of Flight (2000).
[2] Involved in a number of different media, and a long-standing fixture on the experimental music scene, she, nonetheless, describes painting as her "ultimate life choice".
The origins of this choice date back to when, as a child of ten, she was encouraged by her aunt to make images as an afternoon project.
"[5] Pieters won the Waikato Museum’s National Contemporary Art Award in 2017 for her painting "The Meaning of Ethics" (2017, mixed media on board).
[6] Elizabeth Caldwell, director of the City Gallery in Wellington and judge for the award commented: "The work draws on a tradition of stylistic abstract painting.