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Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Join Sofia and Maya for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!

Various Artist w/ Sofia and Maya: 25th July, 2025

Various Artist w/ Sofia and Maya: 25th July, 2025 Various Artist w/ Sofia and Maya: 25th July, 2025, 84.15 MB
Fri 25 Jul 2025

Sof has a kōrero with Philip Kelly about his new exhibition, Throw, opening tonight at Charles Ninow Gallery.

Maya has a kōrero with Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley about their current show at RM, aao, batt karo (come, talk to me), the aperture of the moon.

And Sof chatted with Venus Blacklaws and Daniella Bay of artist collective The Killing about their current exhibition and collective video work, 15 Minutes of Fame, currently on at Plomacy Gallery.

aao, batt karo (come, talk to me) the aperture of the moon w/ Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley: 25th July, 2025

aao, batt karo (come, talk to me) the aperture of the moon w/ Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley: 25th July, 2025 aao, batt karo (come, talk to me) the aperture of the moon w/ Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley: 25th July, 2025, 39.49 MB
Fri 25 Jul 2025

aao, batt karo (come, talk to me), the aperture of the moon, is an exhibition by artists Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley

Coming together through their shared desire and Interested in the lives of historical and vulnerable individuals, in an attempt to look to, and gather the collective consciousness of another. 

Maya had a chat with Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley about their individual practices as well as the show.

15 Minutes of Fame w/ Venus Blacklaws and Daniella Bay of The Killing: 25th July, 2025

15 Minutes of Fame w/ Venus Blacklaws and Daniella Bay of The Killing: 25th July, 2025 15 Minutes of Fame w/ Venus Blacklaws and Daniella Bay of The Killing: 25th July, 2025, 27.75 MB
Fri 25 Jul 2025

15 Minutes of Fame is a newly-commissioned collective video work by artist collective, The Killing, currently showing at Plomacy Gallery. 

The Killing has developed a signature style as an artist collective which embodies and explores playfulness, naivety, queerness, and honouring the inner child in their joint practice. 

Their video work, 15 Minutes of Fame, is set within the premise that everyone is world-famous for 15 minutes in the future, interrogating the politics of being seen, perceived, and the hunger for fame. 

Sof caught up with members Venus Blacklaws and Daniella Bay about the show.

Throw w/ Philip Kelly: 25th July, 2025

Throw w/ Philip Kelly: 25th July, 2025 Throw w/ Philip Kelly: 25th July, 2025, 31.51 MB
Fri 25 Jul 2025

Throw is an exhibition of new paintings by Philip Kelly at Charles Ninow Gallery.

Showing a continuation of Kelly’s long-time ‘turntable’ painting series, this new body of work shows a shift in Kelly’s process by replacing the record player as a mode of making with the electric potter’s wheel. These abstract images are bright explorations of form and colour through a process of applying, removing, and manipulating paint on a rotating surface to form works that are almost rhythmic and musical in nature, speaking to the exploration of the interrelationship between music and art, which drives much of Kelly’s artistic practice. 

Sof had a kōrero with Philip Kelly about the show and these themes.

Wharenui Harikoa w/ Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole: 18th July, 2025

Wharenui Harikoa w/ Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole: 18th July, 2025 Wharenui Harikoa w/ Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole: 18th July, 2025, 37.92 MB
Fri 18 Jul 2025

Wharenui Harikoa is the world’s first crocheted wharenui, currently showing at the Civic until 27 July. 

Created by artists Lissy (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kahu) and Rudi Robinson-Cole (Taranaki, Ngāti Pāoa, Waikato, Ngāti Tahu/Ngāti Whaoa), the Wharenui Harikoa merges traditional Māori practices with modern technology, bringing joy, colour and connection to Aotearoa through its vibrant neon wool and intentionality.

Presented by Auckland Live in collaboration with Lissy and Rudi, the wharenui encapsulates joy and embraces the viewer in a feeling of warmth and aroha. 

The experience of entering the whare invites stillness, dreaming, and reflection, of which is supported by its welcoming visual and audio accessibility. 

Sof had a kōrero with Lissy and Rudi about the making of the Wharenui Harikoa, the reception thus far, and how they hope viewers engage with the work. 

The Archive Room w/ Shannon Conacher: 18th July, 2025.

The Archive Room w/ Shannon Conacher: 18th July, 2025. , 21.26 MB
Fri 18 Jul 2025

Shannon Conacher is a South African, Tāmaki based artist. Working amongst a variety of mediums with a central focus on moving image and video.

Her current exhibition, The Archive Room, showing at RM navigates RM's own archive and archive room. Bringing into focus a space that might be typically overlooked. An archive of ephemera that dates back to the artist-run space’s opening in 1997, with many of the artworks within the archive being largely unknown of its maker.

Within the archive room Conacher approaches the archive as a living, breathing site. Re-positioning the archive into an active site of touch and encounter. Through a process of material dialogue between Conacher and the archived art works. working with a light touch to preserve the works agency, but enough to bring them forth into a space of active dialogue.

Maya had chat with Shannon Conacher about her practice and current show The Archive Room

On Being Imaged w/ Tess Walker Elliot: 11 July, 2025

On Being Imaged w/ Tess Walker Elliot: 11 July, 2025 On Being Imaged w/ Tess Walker Elliot: 11 July, 2025, 27.16 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

Tess Walker Elliot is a Tāmaki Makaurau based artist, working amongst analogue photography processes. Her Practice is Centered around engaging with the archive, working across both personal and national archives.

Within Her Current show at Window Gallery, On being Imaged, Walker Elliot draws on her own personal medical archives. Engaging with x-rays and Ultrasounds to examine the depersonalization of the medical image and environment.

Pulling the x-rays back into a place of dark room photography process, using the x-rays as photo negatives that walker elliot then layers with external images of her own body.

Attempting to bring these medical images back into a place of the body, of the personal. Resulting in a series of images that wrestle with the dissolving of the external image into their own abstraction through the internal image 

Maya had a kōrero with Tess walker Elliot about the show and overall practice

Nit w/ Alex Laurie: 11July, 2025

Nit w/ Alex Laurie: 11July, 2025 Nit w/ Alex Laurie: 11July, 2025, 17.05 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

Alex Laurie is a Tāmaki Makaurau based artist, working amongst sculpture and installation in response to site specific and architectural contexts.

The title of his current show on at Grace, Nit, is a three letter homonym referring to:

1. The egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect

2. A foolish person

3. A unit of luminance used to measure brightness.

Within Nit laurie resumes  his long standing fascination with vessels. A magical sculptural water vessel awaits viewers as they enter the gallery. Luring them in closer through its hypnotic circular movements of 5 wooden goblets amongst a bath of milky water.

Venturing further into the gallery,  a scullery of translucent spoons and ladles quickly shift into these illusionary ciphers that nod to the form of an egg. Sinking in and out of their surroundings, refracting the light as they fall between.

Maya had a kōrero with Alex Laurie about the show, and overall practice

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 11th July, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 11th July, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 11th July, 2025, 78.94 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

This week on Various Artists!

Sof had a kōrero with historian of sex, gender and health in late-twentieth-century Aotearoa and Australia, Cheryl Ware, about her latest novel, Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008.

Maya had a kōrero with Alex Laurie about his current show Nit, On at Grace.


She also had a chat with Tess Walker Elliot about her show, on Being Imaged, on now at Window gallery

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Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 w/ Cheryl Ware: 11th July, 2025

Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 w/ Cheryl Ware: 11th July, 2025 Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 w/ Cheryl Ware: 11th July, 2025, 25.12 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 is a new book written by historian of sex, gender, and health, Cheryl Ware, published by Auckland University Press. 

In June 2003, New Zealand became the first country to decriminalise sex work.

Through the lived experiences of 25 individuals, the book is an account of the stories of sex workers in Aotearoa and the industry’s transformation over this critical 30 year period. 

Drawing on new and archival interviews, Ware tells their stories through an in-depth historical investigation from the regulation of brothels with the Massage Parlours Act of 1978, through the struggle for decriminalisation to the legally mandated national review of the law in 2008.

Sofia had a kōrero with author Cheryl Ware about the importance of this body of research, writing the book, and her reflections now.