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Print archive: Robyn Maree Pickens on Zina Swanson
In Zina Swanson's All My Sticks Have Auras, ”Meaning quivers between viewer and work, plant and human, and between each decomposing twig and the vibratory aura the artist depicts,” writes Robyn Maree Pickens in Issue 00.
Kogachiworld
K. Emma Ng on Claudia Kogachi’s exhibition Heaven must be missing an angel at Jhana Millers.
Dreamy Era
Moya Lawson on Sione Monū’s Volver at Robert Heald.
The photo, a girl
Bridget Riggir-Cuddy on Ann Shelton’s recent presentation REDUX at Envy6011.
ARCHIVE: scratched flowers
Lucinda Bennett on Emma McIntyre’s The blue of it, Hopkinson Mossman (2019).
Led by thread
K. Emma Ng responds to Soft Landing at Page Galleries, featuring works by Heidi Brickell, Vita Cochran, Finn Ferrier, Serene Hodgman, Fiona Jack, and Kathryn Tsui.
die pretty
Jonathan Bywater on Nayan Patel’s Still Life at Parasite.
A conversation between Bronte Perry and Daniel John Corbett Sanders
In response to Perry’s new work at Artspace Aotearoa, Guilty Pleasures.
Tricksters & Mischief Makers
Jessicoco Hansell writes on being tricky and traversing different realms, in the context of Mischief Makers, an exhibition curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith at Pātaka Art + Museum.
Ed Bats’ Policy of Violation
Connie Brown on Ed Bats’ recent paintings at Page Galleries, in the context of contemporary urban life.
Effervescent Dynamism/Desire and the work of Deborah Rundle
Jo Bragg on Deborah Rundle’s recent exhibition, On My Volcano Grows the Grass.
Staying Afloat: K. Emma Ng on Elisabeth Pointon
Elisabeth Pointon's practice encompasses video, painting, installation and signage—utilising a visual language of playfulness to create works that act as philosophical adages for our time. Her presentation THERE IS AN ARTWORK IN ALL OF THIS. is currently on view across Jhana Millers Gallery and Yu Mei Lounge in Wellington.
Nathan Pōhio and Remco de Blaaij in conversation
Artist Nathan Pōhio speaks to Artspace Aotearoa Director Remco de Blaaij about his relationship to Artspace and 2010 Buster Keaton portrait (featuring a young Marlon Williams as a model), Homemade Glider Kitset.
Ruby Joy Eade's A Gentle Reminder
Felixe Laing on Ruby Joy Eade's exhibition at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre.
WATCH: Hana Pera Aoake, a euology to love
Hana Pera Aoake writes on a euology to love, a video made in 2019 based around a poem of the same name.
Weighted Yet Free: Marlee McMahon's Heavy Kite
Francis McWhannell on Marlee McMahon's latest series of artworks, currently on view at Visions.
Winter Winter Spring: Milli Jannides
Grace Ridley-Smith and Moya Lawson write on Winter Winter Spring, an exhibition by Milli Jannides at McLeavey Gallery.
Structure Signalling (Logical Structure or Relating to Something That Happened)
Eloise Callister-Baker on J. A. Kennedy's current exhibition at RM in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Shane Cotton, interviewed by Kim Meredith
Kim Meredith speaks to Shane Cotton (Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Hine, Te Uri Taniwha) about Te Puawai, his recent artwork included within the landmark exhibition Toi Tū Toi Ora at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and the vessels that guide us forward.
Lydia Ourahmane at Kunsthalle Basel
A ransom, an illicit border crossing, an exchange of nationality: transactions of different sorts are often the conceptual starting point for Lydia Ourahmane’s art. The results encompass video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation, exploring the way histories of displacement and colonial oppression are inscribed upon bodies. For her first exhibition in Switzerland, the Algerian-born artist presents a newly commissioned work, Barzakh.