To Breathe, To Sit, To Listen, To Talk w/ Hamish Carter: June 9, 2023

Hamish Carter is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. His work is guided by a decolonising framework, a methodology around reciprocal exchange with local ecosystems, and theories on walking as performative action. Having recently completed a Masters in Visual Arts at AUT in 2022, culminating in the exhibition Walking-Witness, Treaded-Trace, Hamish has developed a mobile artmaking practice using graphite frottage (rubbings), paper, ink, wood, and charcoal to work collaboratively and on-foot with more-than-human occupiers of urban ecosystems in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. 

To Breathe, To Sit, To Listen, To Talk is his new show at Window Gallery which opened on Wednesday. It explores the possibility of a relational artmaking practice engaging in more-than-human dialogue with trees and other living entities in nearby Albert Park. This dialogue is proposed as an urban place-making strategy in collaboration with the park’s long-term occupants, to tell a place-specific story of its complex history. 

Frances talked with Hamish on Various Artists to hear about his work and process.