Sue Gardiner’s shares her favourite works from an exhibition contemplating the ocean, Liz Caughey reflects on the smouldering intensity of JS Parker’s quiet yet insistent paintings, Robin Woodward reports on the Connells Bay Sculpture Park and Art News checks out why Queensland Art Gallery’s flagship event APT6 is not to be missed; Josie McNaught has a sudden, shocking realisation; a studio visit with Neil Dawson; a profile of Richard Stratton; London-based contributor Matthew Collings reflects on surviving art school; we visit Rarotonga with Andy Leleisi’uao and Germany’s largest photo festival with Ann Shelton; and California-based critic and art historian Scott Chamberlin shares his thoughts on local ceramics. In columns, John Perry reflects on recent seismic shocks to the auction scene and our reviewers visit Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Sydney