Conversations with the body
Sam Harrison’s recent works bring together his interest in representing the naked and vulnerable human figure, and the more visceral forms of animal carcasses.
Sam Harrison’s recent works bring together his interest in representing the naked and vulnerable human figure, and the more visceral forms of animal carcasses.
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.
Light artist Peter Roche generates his own energy in his recent performances. Dan Chappell visits the artist and eyes up his latest work.
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.
Throughout his outstanding career, Michael Smither has explored and instigated complex interconnections between his twin loves—painting and music.
Auckland artist and recent Wallace Art Award winner, Sam Mitchell, speaks to Virginia Were about her love of building stories in her irreverent paintings.
Fiona Jack’s latest exhibition is tender, illuminating and radical. It looks at a particular moment in history – this time the birth of the idea to build living memorials.
Roger Mortimer’s meticulous paintings are an otherwordly mix of luminescent colours, medieval manuscript imagery and gritty, contemporary texts.
2010 Walters Prize nominee Alex Monteith talks about how growing up in Ireland, politics and surfing inform her adrenaline-charged video installations.
Taranaki artist John McLean talks to Virginia Winder about the evolution of his allegorical series, ‘The Odyssey of The Farmer’ and ‘The Farmer’s Wife’.