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Artist Q+A with Samara Alofa, PollyHill and Litia Tuiburelevu
We speak to the creative team behind the music and visuals of HOME, the centrepiece of Paloma Schneideman aka PollyHill x Samara Alofa’s collaborative music project, AQUARIES (2023).
Whenua as a catalyst for reconnection
Raukura Turei speaks to gallerist Jade Townsend about her current exhibition, Takoto ai te marino: Te hokinga mai, at Season.
Self-mythologising through painting
An interview with Isabella Dampney about her exhibition Britpop, currently on view at play_station artist-run space, 17 October – 9 November 2024.
Artist Q+A with Tia Barrett
We speak to Tia Barrett about her installation He Pounamu Ko Aū, currently on view as part of the group exhibition Te Mōteatea a Maumahara at Wairau Māori Art Gallery, 10 August – 24 November 2024.
Backstage at another runway show
Last weekend, TAP visited another runway show, organised by NVVR.WORLD, celebrating innovative fashion, sustainability and local creativity. The event included four unique runway shows by Nicole van Vuuren, Too cruel to be kind, Rani Maria Lange and Fringes, with music by Lincoln van Vught.
Artist Q+A with Hōhua Thompson
We speak to Hōhua Thompson about his upcoming exhibition Tuku / Transfer at Trish Clark Gallery, 18 October – 16 November 2024.
Meet Ruth Ige
RUTH IGE is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to her about her oceanic paintings and the politics of Black portraiture.
Notes on: Performance Anxiety
Connie Brown on Florence Wild’s Droopy Time; RM Gallery and Project Space
Ragini and her nine wives
We republish Dilohana Lekamge’s essay on Tarika Sabherwal's recent exhibition at RM, Ragini and her nine wives, 6 – 30 March 2024.
Meet Pelenakeke Brown
PELENAKEKE BROWN is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to her about her performance Raking Scissor Grip, dwelling in vā and crip time, and finding poetry in the official record.
Meet Hannah Ireland
HANNAH IRELAND is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to her about her new works, home and family, and accidentally becoming a ‘glitter girl’.
Meet Jack Hadley
JACK HADLEY is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to him about figurative sculpture, anthropomorphism and AliExpress.
Aotearoa Contemporary opening night
The Art Paper attends the opening of Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki with photographer Felix Jack, capturing the hottest looks on the night.
Meet Amit Noy
AMIT NOY is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to him about his work Errant, a choreographed performance work which takes place across the gallery, investigating codes of behaviour and the repercussions of breaking them.
slip / knot
We republish Josiah Morgan’s poem ‘slip / knot’, published by badapple, on the occasion of badapple’s three-night show future ANCESTORS at Basement Theatre, 4–6 July in Tāmaki Makaurau.
Feminine Rubble
play_station curator Angel speaks to Prairie Hatchard-McGill about her recent exhibition, Feminine Rubble, and finding inspiration in “lipstick, mascara smears, and broken acrylics on the floor.”
A Puppet Show
A fashion shoot by QQ x NIKIREI x JJ, featuring garments by musei., Te Rina Coffyn, junesxcry, A.MODA and Fourteen Laboratories.
Print Archive: Rangi White’s Whakapapa Plasticus
Fergus Porteous on Rangi White’s Whakapapa Plasticus; Grace, 29 February – 30 March 2024.
Print Archive: Endless Permanence
Matthew Galloway and Mohamed Sleiman Labat on phosphate extraction and food sovereignty in the Western Sahara.
“When does one thing become another?”
Zac Langdon-Pole on the malleability of history, chimeras and hybrids — on the occasion of his recently exhibited work Chimera, included in this year’s Sculpture on the Gulf.