Action Woman
The multifarious, project-based, practice of Janet Lilo is about the journey, not the destination.
The multifarious, project-based, practice of Janet Lilo is about the journey, not the destination.
Yona Lee discusses her most ambitious installation to date, in which mundane objects focus our attention on the urban transit spaces we move through everyday. Claudia Arozqueta reports.
Richard Lewer’s art makes us laugh even as we recognise the painful moments of weakness and failure he’s looking at. Lisa Slade reports.
Artists riding the fourth wave of feminism in recent New Zealand art talk to Megan Dunn about building pools, the body, motherhood, the Internet and the inescapable pressure to perform.
John Akomfrah is a leading voice of the African diaspora. His astonishing work Vertigo Sea was recently exhibited at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch. Andrew Paul Wood talks to the artist.
Dieneke Jansen’s timely exhibition Dwelling on the Stoep visits large-scale housing projects in Auckland, Jakarta and Amsterdam, giving voice to their inhabitants’ fear of displacement and anxiety about the future.
Robin White’s teacher at Elam School of Fine Arts in the 1960s, Colin McCahon, said, “We are all students.” The idea that life is a continuous process of learning shaped her development as an artist.
Laura Suzuki on Luke Willis Thompson’s recent exhibition Sucu Mate/Born Dead at Hopkinson Mossman
We’re living in a time where everything we want to know is seemingly available at the click of a mouse. The artists of our time have embraced this encyclopaedic world view, although, as Judy Millar writes, it’s not a new idea.
Wandering through the Art Gallery of New South Wales, you would be hard pressed to find a work by a New Zealand artist on display—even our most famous artists are sadly missing from the collection. Sue Gardiner finds that is about to change.