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Casting shadows in space
Hannah Crichton speaks to Polly Gilroy about her recent exhibition, Traces.
Rumpus (Room)
Hannah Mahon speaks to Kirsty Lillico about her recent installation with Yu Mei.
“One strand of flax is easy to break, but many strands together will stand strong.”
Robbie Handcock speaks to Wai Ching Chan and Tessa Ma’auga about their current collaborative exhibition Kāpuia ngā aho 單絲不綫 at The Physics Room, Christchurch.
Max Speed
Max Fleury and Sabina Rizos-Shaw discuss fantasy painting and visual enjoyment in the context of Fleury’s exhibition Max Speed.
Nick Mullaly’s desirous paintings
Nick Mullaly talks to writer (and boyfriend) Sholto Buck about playing the ingenue, '70s porn and romantic desire. Featuring cameos by Mariah Carey, Edvard Munch and Roland Barthes.
Meet August Ward
Parisa chats to August Ward about her recent exhibition at Lover — and the sensational, muted remains of femme consumerist culture.
A new kind of alphabet
Longtime collaborators Michelle Williams Gamaker and Krishna Istha in conversation.
The Moon was Talking
Emil Scheffmann speaks to Edith Amituanai from his own experience as a school teacher, in a conversation that explores the role of artists in education.
Connor Fitzgerald and Fred Small in reflection
The two artists discuss their collaboration on Towards the Sun, first exhibited at play_station and currently on view at Artspace Aotearoa.
promising.space
On interactive digital spaces, astro bodies, and making art within the periphery of HTML. A conversation between curator Bonnie Lee and Susu on the occasion of Susu’s Window Online exhibition.
An interview with Angela Singer
A conversation in two parts, over two exhibitions: Mythily Meher talks to artist and animal rights advocate Angela Singer.
“Repositioning pleasure as a value,” in conversation with Samuel Te Kani
Please, Call Me Jesus is a collection of short erotic fiction by Samuel Te Kani. Here, curator Daniel John Corbett Sanders speaks to Te Kani about this new book.
Milli Jannides, on Far Flung at Coastal Signs
Far Flung is painter Milli Jannides’ most recent exhibition and her first presentation at Coastal Signs. Here, Emil Scheffmann speaks to Jannides about her practice and a journey that has led to these paintings.
Aroha Gossage’s matrilineal landscapes
Emil Scheffmann speaks to Aroha Gossage’s gallerists Grace Alty and Libby Storey at ARTIS about Gossage’s latest series of atmospheric paintings that look toward her home environment of Pakiri.
Dayle Palfreyman and Isabelle Russell in conversation
RM co-facilitator Nina Dyer speaks to Dayle Palfreyman and Isabelle Russell about their collaborative project Intra-action, a 4-day exhibition on view as part of Aotearoa Art Fair's TENT.
4 questions, with Oliver Perkins
Oliver Perkins talks walks, spring, and curiosity sustaining engagement, with Victoria Wynne-Jones.
Nathan Pōhio and Remco de Blaaij in conversation
Artist Nathan Pōhio speaks to Artspace Aotearoa Director Remco de Blaaij about his relationship to Artspace and 2010 Buster Keaton portrait (featuring a young Marlon Williams as a model), Homemade Glider Kitset.
A Field of Joy: Energy, Hyperobjects and Artefacts
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy speaks to gallerist Dan du Bern on the occasion of her new exhibition Joy Field at Sumer, Tauranga—discussing her approach as an artist, what inspires her, and how she believes art can best function in the world at this specific point in time.
Viral Tondos: In conversation with Owen Connors
On the occasion of their new exhibition Incubations at Robert Heald Gallery, Owen Connors discusses the egg tempera medium, reproductive hegemony, formlessness, and erotic decorum with The Art Paper.
Thinking through memories, an interview with Ilish Thomas
Indira's Birthday (ઇન્દિરાનો જન્મદિવસ) is a solo exhibition by Ilish Thomas at play_station in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). Here, play_station co-facilitator Connor Fitzgerald speaks to the artist about transience, community and intimacy.