Luminous moments
In Yang Fudong’s survey exhibition Auckland audiences are being seduced by immersive film and video installations, which reflect the filmmaking traditions of East and West—as well as the aesthetics of Chinese painting.
In Yang Fudong’s survey exhibition Auckland audiences are being seduced by immersive film and video installations, which reflect the filmmaking traditions of East and West—as well as the aesthetics of Chinese painting.
Bronwynne Cornish’s upcoming survey exhibition combines her groundbreaking ceramic installations with smaller figurative sculptures that navigate between the sacred and the divine.
Tessa Laird’s new book and her rainbow-hued ceramic sculptures celebrate colour as a powerful, palpable force. Virginia Were reads between the lines.
Georgie Hill’s luminous paintings invite us to step across the threshold between public and private, entering enigmatic interiors that suggest shifting time and spatial boundaries.
Though Erica van Zon’s tributes to pop culture look distinctly satirical, they are in fact made with great love, tenderness and sincerity. Virginia Were reports.
Whether turning her lens on the forgotten objects of the everyday world, or young people emerging from their teens into adulthood, Roberta Thornley makes potent images that seem to glow with life and make you look twice.
Taking on the role of ‘artist as anthropologist’, Kushana Bush makes paintings that are erotic, amusing, disturbing and beautiful, but ultimately their content remains absolutely mysterious. Virginia Were reports.
Auckland photographer Fiona Pardington talks to Virginia Were about her photographs of life casts made on Dumont d’Urville’s South Seas voyage.
Beneath the lusciously decorative exteriors of Richard Stratton’s ceramics lie graphic stories about some of the most disturbing issues of our times. Virginia Were talks to the artist.
For some people suburban shopping malls and newly minted suburbs are objects of desire, but Ruth Cleland’s paintings present them in a more ambiguous light. Virginia Were reports.