Elizabeth Thomson, cellular memory II, 2017, from the exhibition Elizabeth Thomson: Cellular Energy at Aratoi Museum of Art and History, Masterton, 9 December 2017 to 2 April 2018
This July, Arts Makers Aotearoa (AMA) will be launching a new service, the Artist Advice Bureau. Here, we speak to Art Aunty Claudia Jowitt, who will be hosting drop-in (or Zoom-in) sessions at Samoa House Library on Karangahape Road, offering independent advice and advocacy for artists trying to navigate the industry.
We spoke to Sadikeen about being a 2024 Gasworks artist in residence, a programme aimed at supporting artists to pursue practice-based research that responds to the context of being in the city of London.
We speak to the City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi curator about the influences that shape her thinking in the lead-up to her exhibition Meditations, which is being shown offsite at the National Library of New Zealand from 30 November 2024–1 March 2025.
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.
Established in 2002, the biennial Walters Prize is New Zealand’s most significant contemporary art prize, setting out to put contemporary art in the public spotlight and to make it a more urgent and widely debated feature of New Zealand’s cultural life.
We spoke to Sadikeen about being a 2024 Gasworks artist in residence, a programme aimed at supporting artists to pursue practice-based research that responds to the context of being in the city of London.
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.
Over the past year, Cat Auburn has been creating a large tapestry comprised of 500 Victorian hair-rosettes, made out of horsehair. She talks to Margo White about the ideas behind this project, and the response from the equine community.
Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau