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.
Karl Chitham and Nova Paul, who both whakapapa to Te Uriroroi in Te Tai Tokerau Northland, speak about Ngā Pūrākau Nō Ngā Rākau,
Paul’s exhibition, exhibited jointly at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi and Whāngerei Art Museum.
Bruce Connew's new book A Vocabulary brings together photographs of Pākehā memorials and gravestones from the New Zealand Wars, framing the Wars from the viewpoint of the colonists.
Christina Barton reflects on a turning point in the artist’s practice and a milestone in the emergence of a properly contemporary art scene in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We speak to curator Gregory O'Brien about the exhibition, which runs 25 August 2023–28 February 2024 at New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa.
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