Sculptural Humour
Peter Lange takes the humble clay brick and deftly transforms it into sculptural objects that breathe lightness and humour.
Peter Lange takes the humble clay brick and deftly transforms it into sculptural objects that breathe lightness and humour.
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.
For almost 50 years the late Pat Hanly captured the light and colour of the Pacific in a vast body of work—paintings, prints, murals and glass works. Art News talks to his wife, photographer Gil Hanly, about the early days.
French artist Bernar Venet creates a dramatic statement in steel on Alan Gibbs’ Kaipara farm. He talks to Dan Chappell about the project and his future plans.
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.
Trans-Tasman artist Euan Macleod spends a week on Waiheke Island, painting, talking and collaborating with fellow artist Gregory O’Brien. Dan Chappell listens in.
While she was in New Zealand for the launch of her first public sculpture, Loafers, expat New Zealand artist, Francis Upritchard, talked to Virginia Were about her Vienna Secession exhibition and life since the Venice Biennale.
Lauren Lysaght makes work that is captivating, edgy and full of dark humour. She talks to Virginia Were about her recent homage to Crown Lynn.
Wellington artist Neil Pardington talks to Virginia Were about his love of photographing spaces that are empty, yet redolent with strangeness, mystery and narrative.
Whakapapa or genealogy has always been at the heart of Reuben Paterson’s practice, which dances with various influences—from the optical paintings of Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley to memories of the patterns on his grandmother’s dresses.