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.
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.
In September this year The Refusal of Time, a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge, comes to City Gallery Wellington. The artist spoke to Dan Chappell about this spectacular work, which attempts to make visible the abstract idea of time.
Talkback radio, comic-strip characters and paintings by Old Masters collide and ricochet off one another in Mark Braunias’ boisterous, mix ‘n’ match works.
Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau