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.
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.
You can take Daniel Unverricht out of Hastings but you can’t take Hastings out of his art. Megan Dunn meets the painter known for stark, intimate street scenes in oils.
Tony de Lautour’s latest paintings continue his ongoing exploration of colonisation, control and ownership of land—only now they reflect on the post-quake landscape of Christchurch.
For 25 years Pauline Bern mentored many Unitec students who are now leading lights in New Zealand jewellery. Linda Tyler finds out how Bern opened her students’ eyes to the social context of jewellery and its exciting potential as an expressive medium.
Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau