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Artspace Aotearoa hosts Martha Atienza and Yee I-Lann

Join the artists in conversation with Kairauhī Curator Robbie Hancock on Wednesday 30 July at 6pm.

Open now: applications for The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

The $1,500 award will be given to the most original contribution to Len Lye scholarship.

Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau

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.

Viaduct Harbour unveils Maruata Rikoriko for Matariki

The artwork, by Graham Tipene and Amy Hawke, is on view 17 June through 13 July at Viaduct Harbour.

Yellow Post Unveiled at Brick Bay

The sculpture was designed and constructed by emerging architects George Culling, Oliver Prisk, Henry Mabin and André Vachias.

2025 Fale-Ship Residency recipients announced

Recipients Quishile Charan, Harry Freeth and p.Walters will exhibiting at Tautai later this year.
  • The tongue to them
26 July – 4 October 2025
  • Li Si Rong
  • Murmuration
25 June – 20 July 2025
  • Whata Kura
13 June – 25 July 2025
  • Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury
  • Life in forms
3 May – 27 July 2025
  • Giorgio Griffa, Peter Robinson
  • Differences in kind and rhythm
8 June – 24 August 2025
  • Vanessa Arthur
  • Wonder Goggles
14 June – 11 October 2025

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A Love Letter

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Laurie Steer: Meditations

Samuel Te Kani reviews the exhibition, which ran at Tim Melville Gallery, 20 September – 5 October 2024.

Artist in Residence: Shiraz Sadikeen

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.

The Questionnaire with Israel Randell

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.

Superpartner opens in Arrowtown

The first exhibitions will be by painters Georgie Hill and Jake Walker.

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Strangely Beautiful

Tokoroa-born, Brooklyn-based artist, Lorene Taurerewa, has recently returned from a Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre residency. She writes about the months she spent there, and how the place and people began to creep into her work.

Crocodile Tears

Megan Dunn visits an art therapist.

Laura Duffy: Ooze

Chelsea Nichols gushes with enthusiasm.

New elsewhere

Connie Brown speaks to newly returned expatriate artist Martin Basher about the present dislocated moment and the fresh opportunities it presents for cultural production in Aotearoa.

Emergence

Susan Ballard on how we think, write and curate ecologically.

Here be dragons

Roger Mortimer's meticulous paintings are an otherwordly mix of luminescent colours, medieval manuscript imagery and gritty, contemporary texts.

From blind spot to hot spot

Wandering through the Art Gallery of New South Wales, you would be hard pressed to find a work by a New Zealand artist on display—even our most famous artists are sadly missing from the collection. Sue Gardiner finds that is about to change.

On Billy Apple’s Art for Sale

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.