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Rosa Allison is a Pōneke-based artist primarily working amongst a painting practice. Producing beautiful oil paintings on canvas that are heavily informed by the natural world. 

Her current show an at Melanie Roger Gallery, Veriditas showcases a stunning series of paintings that continues in Allison's exploration of the natural world. The title of the show itself Veriditas, refers to a concept coined by 12th Century German Mystic, Hildegard Von Bingen. The world refers to a kind of greenness, a vitality and lifeforce that inhibits all living things. Like a sap that flows through the natural world, embodying all things with a kind of liveliness. In turn re-imagining the divine as not something that sits above nature, but rather within nature. 

The works themselves lean into this exploration of Veriditas, taking on this enriched green colour pallet that flows between works to create a visual landscape of greenness. Slipping in between abstraction and figuration, with imagery of snakes, birds, plants, mushrooms, and human bodies— both arising and slipping back into the work itself. Resulting in a luminous exhibition that pulls viewers into a space of liveliness that re-centers nature, and our ecological system.

Maya caught up with Rosa about the show as well as her overall practice.

For Fancy New Band today Huia was joined by Grey Lynn based rapper, Joe Foley who was showcasing his current project 'Sophisticated Sarcasm' to which the name says it all, he's able to blend well thought out lyricism, cheeky remarks and still pull a strong sense of vulnerability and honesty to his art. 

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Grace Aotearoa is a Tāmaki-based gallery, which specialises in the representation of early career artists within Aotearoa. Directed by Emil Scheffmann, the gallery has recently relocated from its former Pitt Street home into Symond Street’s historic Rationalist House. A building rich with history, Rationalist House has been owned by the New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists since 1960 – having been home to the Association’s library, an infamous jazz club, the Society for Closer Relations with the USSR, and, for many years, the Socialist Party. As a gallery with a reputation for championing younger emerging artists, it feels apt that Grace now sits between AUT, Whitecliffe, and Elam, at the heart of fine arts education in Tāmaki. 

Sof caught up with gallery director Emil Scheffmann about the move, as well as their current joint exhibition showing Atarangi Anderson and Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood, Mau Āhua.

This Morning Glory Huia dove into a few different genres. She played new tracks from Courtney Barnett and School Fair which later morphed into a small inpromptu britpop segment. Leading into Fancy New band the tunes moved to some local rap/hiphop for this weeks artist Joe Foley playing songs under 'Sophisticated Sarcasm'. 

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Thanks to The Tuning Fork.