Artbank: February 19 2017.mp3

Sriwhana Spong is an artist seemingly at home on the road, so it was a great privilege that she pulled into the studio while in Aotearoa, and talked at length on artbank. This podcast file skips the intro, so, here is a quick one now…  Sriwhana Spong spans disciplines as she weaves her interest in film, memory, ballet, mythology, her Balinese and New Zealand roots, language and the sublime. The paintings, films, banners and choreography that leap out from this mix can often be zingy and humourous, but are also slow-burning, cutting, heartfelt and considered investigations. It is the kind of work which one wants to know the stories that have fueled their creation. In this interview Spong discusses recent stints in Pittsburgh and Rotterdam, her work in the Headlands Sculpture on the Gulf, and her current show at Michael Lett Gallery.