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Lara Merrett, Seventeen Days
Sumer, 18 NOV – 18 DEC 2021
“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.
Effervescent Dynamism/Desire and the work of Deborah Rundle
Jo Bragg on Deborah Rundle’s recent exhibition, On My Volcano Grows the Grass.
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.
Staying Afloat: K. Emma Ng on Elisabeth Pointon
Elisabeth Pointon's practice encompasses video, painting, installation and signage—utilising a visual language of playfulness to create works that act as philosophical adages for our time. Her presentation THERE IS AN ARTWORK IN ALL OF THIS. is currently on view across Jhana Millers Gallery and Yu Mei Lounge in Wellington.
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.
Jasmine Togo-Brisby, In The Rooms of Our Bodies
Page Galleries, 30 SEPT – 16 OCT 2021
When The Dust Settles
Artspace Aotearoa, 14 OCT – 19 OCT 2021
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.
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Joy Field
Sumer, 02/10 – 06/11 2021
Rachel Hope Peary, My Mother's Hands
Laree Payne Gallery, 29 SEPT – 23 OCT 2021
Sandy Adsett, Toi Koru
Pātaka Art+Museum, 31 JULY – 07 NOV 2021
Emerita Baik, The softest place on earth
Robert Heald Gallery, 17 SEPT – 16 OCT 2021
Tristan Pigott, A Curtain Made of Wood
Cylinder, 13 JULY – 5 SEPT 2021
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.
Kelcy Taratoa, Te Āio
Bartley & Company Art, 12 AUG – 25 SEPT 2021