Various Artists with Frances & Liam

The winner of the 2023 Portage Ceramics awards has recently been announced as Jino Jeong, for his work Celestial Thread: A Tapestry of Sunshine and Spiderwebs.

Jino is a Tāmaki Makaurau based ceramicist, who was born in Seoul and studied ceramics at Kyonggi University in South Korea.

The pieces in Celestial Thread were praised for their meticulously crafted forms defining volume through lines in space. 

Frances had a chat to Jino to learn more about his entry. 

E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today!

Liam has a chat with Isabella Dampney about her exhibition opening at the ArtPaper HQ next Friday.

They also have a chat with Lance Fepulea’i about the Skypirates and friends exhibition opening tonight at their space in orningside.

Frances speaks to Creative New Zealand’s Tracey Monastra and Dr James Wenley about New Mirrors: strengthening arts and culture media for Aotearoa New Zealand, a qualitative study based on insights from 52 interviews with arts and media professionals.

E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today!

Firstly, we have Cameron McCurdy in the studio to chat about neglect comics, their new archive of Aotearoa comics. 

Liam also speaks to Creative New Zealand’s Gretchen La Roche about their new funding programmes. 

Frances speaks to curator Felixe Laing about Food Futures, a pop-up art restaurant, exploring the future of our food at Te Tuhi’s Parnell Project Space, as well as talking with with Ruth Buchanan and Prairie Hartchard-McGill about Sunlighting opening at Artspace. 

And, to round off the show, we will take you through the art guide for Tāmaki Makarau this week.

Each year Artspace Aotearoa orbits one question in the company of artists and through exhibitions. In 2023 they have been asking “where does my body belong?” Artspace is closing out the exploration of this with the first iteration of the New Commissions programme, evolving out of the legacy of the annual New Artists show. Sunlighting presents the work of three emerging artists living in Tāmakai Makaurau Auckland. To hear about the show Frances caught up with director Ruth Buchanan and artist Prairie Hartchard-McGill.