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Aug 27, 20194 min read

Language of light

Visiting 'Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys' in Auckland, Maeve Hughes found the artist was fluent in the language of light.

Aug 26, 20191 min read

Crime wave

Identical replicas, copies with a twist, 'inspired-by', and 'in the style of' are all welcomed at the Mangaweka Fakes & Forgeries Festival.

Aug 15, 20195 min read

Invisible labour

In Carlos Sandoval de León’s exhibition at Cindy Rucker Gallery in New York, a conscious system of change is operating in situ.

Aug 12, 20195 min read

Great Dane

Representing Aotearoa at this year's Venice Art Biennale, Dane Mitchell explores the vanished, the forgotten, and the imperceptible.

Aug 8, 20192 min read

Face lift

Enjoy Art Gallery has revealed their new space in Wellington’s Left Bank Arcade. Jess Scott reports.

Aug 1, 20193 min read

Time, space, light and sound

'Semiconductor: the Technological Sublime', an enchanting and absorbing art video installation, gets a visit and review from Janet Hughes.

Jul 29, 20195 min read

A E I O U

Catherine Griffiths is an artist, designer and typographer. She talks of collections, vowels and her penchant for word play.

Jul 24, 20191 min read

In the draw

A toilet and sink, and an oak table are just some of the subjects of the artworks shortlisted for the 2019 Parkin Drawing Prize.

Jul 16, 20192 min read

Glimmers of hope

Auckland artist Henrietta Harris captures glimmers of coming-of-age, anxiety and hope in her dreamy paintings.

Jul 11, 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 4, 20191 min read

Rag time

Marita Hewitt takes worn bed linens, cloths, and tea towels and uses them as both material and muse.

Jul 1, 20193 min read

Summer ahead

Max Patte is a British-born Wellington artist. Here he talks about learning opportunities, Ridley Scott, and wishing he was on a motorbike.

Jun 27, 20191 min read

Top of the clasp

Earlier this year contemporary jeweller Grace Yu Piper presented at Schmuck. She talks here of her focus on functionality and tactility.

Jun 25, 20194 min read

A movable feast

Brian King, art collector, tutor, and performance designer, talks here about supporting the art community and offers advice on medlars.

Jun 23, 20192 min read

A lock of hair

'IHO', showing at the Pātaka Art + Museum, explores traditional terms for Māori hair and their links to storytelling.

Jun 21, 20191 min read

Shiny and new

Secrecy and isolation. Growth and transformation. These are a themes explored in two new exhibits at The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

Jun 18, 20193 min read

Compulsive competitionist

Dunedin ceramicist Madeleine Child talks about the ongoing conundrum of pricing work, celebrating the amateur, and collecting coat hangers.

Jun 13, 20194 min read

Seeing everything

Sophie McKinnon revisits Yayoi Kusama's most enduring works, and finds euphoria and invigoration in the artists reflections of the world.

Jun 11, 20192 min read

Under the black hood

Photographer Harry Culy talks about working slow in a world that's speeding up, ghosts, and everyday strangeness.

Jun 6, 20192 min read

Space of shapes

Maeve Hughes tells how Eva Rothschild's 'Kosmos' at Wellington's City Gallery allows the viewer to become a cosmonaut in a space of shapes.