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Close encounter
Maeve Hughes reviews 'Encounter 1', the first in a series of exhibitions exploring 'encounter' at Wellington's City Gallery.
Mar 6, 20205 min read


Power objects
Josephine Cachemaille creates artworks of empowerment for her daughter in her new exhibition 'She's a Force'.
Feb 18, 20202 min read


Art attack
Coveting art that has meaning to her, and pieces she wants to live amongst, Frances Bennington's home is a gallery of treasures.
Oct 21, 20194 min read


Plastic surgery
In Shelley Norton's hands, a controversial material is transformed into intricate works of art.
Oct 9, 20194 min read


New tools, same battle
Metiria Turei works to centre Indigenous identity and experience in her art and is learning to speak with things rather than words.
Oct 2, 20193 min read


Ice issue
Photographer Jonathan Kay creates icy art. His new experimental project 'Ice Field' uses large scale photograms to capture glacial details.
Oct 1, 20192 min read


House paint
Painter Judy Millar talks about her relationship with Colin McCahon, her artists residency at the McCahon House, and her upcoming works.
Sep 23, 20194 min read


A few of my favourite things
To mark 100 years since the opening of Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, past gallery director Bill Milbank selects his favourite pieces.
Aug 29, 20194 min read

Great Dane
Representing Aotearoa at this year's Venice Art Biennale, Dane Mitchell explores the vanished, the forgotten, and the imperceptible.
Aug 12, 20195 min read


A call to contribute
Matariki Williams visited 'Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive' and writes how the concept of palimpsest helped her understand its layers.
Jul 11, 20195 min read


Birthday girl
April marked 150 years since the birth of Frances Hodgkins. To celebrate, Francesca Emms spoke to big time Frances fan, Dr Joanne Drayton.
May 30, 20192 min read

Red spiral
Whanganui artist Lynn Hurst walks Francesca Emms through her elaborate digital works that explore earthly pleasures and human nature.
Apr 5, 20193 min read


Architectural intent
Jake Walker's textural and abstract pieces are a nod to the influence of design and architecture on his way of seeing the world.
Mar 28, 20196 min read


Gender bias no problem
Piera McArthur talks to Janet Hughes about her experience as a woman artist, in the light of a post-suffrage century of change.
Mar 15, 20194 min read

Crushing it
Monique Lacy's artistic process includes crushing, squashing and painting. Sarah Catherall investigates.
Feb 3, 20193 min read

Slick and subversive
Artist Kerry Ann Lee talks zines, dream spaces, and the connection between material objects and sense of place.
Jan 22, 20194 min read


Boom of the bloom
From botanical drawings to fashion prints, Francesca Emms investigates the enduring presence of flora in our artistic repertoires.
Jan 16, 20194 min read


Hungry hungry Henry
From photography to gastronomy,
Henry Hargreaves talks with Francesca Emms
about how he satisfies his appetite.
Dec 4, 20183 min read


Furry friends
Meet World of Wearable Art award-winner Stephanie Cossens and her menagerie of soft sculptures.
Oct 3, 20183 min read

Knives and neighbourhoods
This year at CONDO, an international gallery exchange, a collaboration with New Zealand gallery Hopkinson Mossman turns heads.
Sep 27, 20183 min read
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