Category: The Art Paper

Meet Ming Ranginui

Ming Ranginui explores fantasy and illusion, creating satin sculptures manifest in “impractical but impactful ways.” Here, we chat to Ming about the works in her exhibition Late to the Ball at Season.

Notes On: Fruiting Bodies

Connie Brown on Georgette Brown’s Tentacular Thinking, And Like a Web; in At Thresholds, City Gallery Wellington, 3 September–20 November 2022.

Owen Connors: Venereal Sacraments

Through the slow process of egg tempera, Connors folds time to hold communion with the magical realists, creating artworks with a campy holiness that engender a new mythology of figures living in a shared, queered reality.

George Watson on Robyn Kahukiwa

“Robyn Kahukiwa’s mahi toi is direct and bold, her paintings simultaneously embrace the warmth and richness of Te Ao Māori, of our values, spirituality, and practices whilst also depicting the fraught social realities for many Māori living in colonised Aotearoa,” writes George Watson