Category: Essay

Don’t look now

Megan Dunn speaks to Dane Mitchell about bringing science, religion, capital and Frankenpines to the Venice Biennale.

Frances Hodgkins: Essence of place

This April marked 150 years since the birth of Frances Hodgkins. Ahead of this auspicious anniversary, Mary Kisler traced the artist’s journeys around Europe, mapping paintings to places and ‘acts of looking’.

Love letters to Savusavu

Nansi Thompson talks to painter Claudia Jowitt about the threads of whakapapa, influence and connection that make up her changing practice.

The art of preservation

Elisha Masemann surveys the preoccupations behind the lithographs, monotypes and mixed-media drawings of John Pusateri.

Duff Master bedroom

Interpreting a time and place

In a collaborative first, Tauranga Art Gallery and The Elms Te Papa Tauranga have invited nine artists to respond to the rooms of a historic property, activating its spaces and creating new conversations. Sian van Dyk reports.

Small and perfectly formed

Peter Robinson’s latest installation is delicate and subtle. Andrew Paul Wood talks to the artist about his deliberate response to the monumental architecture of a gallery space.

Style with Substance

Alex Plumb uses saturated colour and luxuriant imagery to capture the familiar, the strange and the imaginary.

Daniel Unverricht: Mean streets

You can take Daniel Unverricht out of Hastings but you can’t take Hastings out of his art. Megan Dunn meets the painter known for stark, intimate street scenes in oils.

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