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.
Artists riding the fourth wave of feminism in recent New Zealand art talk to Megan Dunn about building pools, the body, motherhood, the Internet and the inescapable pressure to perform.
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.
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.
Fiona Pardington describes photographs as ambiguous, powerful, dangerous and confusing—and that is what she loves about them. She tells Virginia Were about her recent still life series.
David Craig, co-curator of the upcoming Barry Brickell retrospective at The Dowse Art Museum and co-author of an accompanying publication, looks at the life and work of this unique New Zealand artist.
Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau