Modern Women: Flight of Time is a new major show at Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery.
Combining over 80 paintings, prints, sculptures and textiles from public and private collections across Aotearoa from 1920 to 1970, the exhibition highlights the leading role women artists have played in shaping the development of modern art.
Including iconic figures such as Rita Angus, Frances Hodgkins, and A Lois White, the exhibition also aims to celebrate the significant contributions of lesser known women artists such as June Black, Flora Scales and Pauline Yearbury.
The exhibition has been curated by Auckland Art Gallery Curator of New Zealand Art Julia Waite.
Sofia spoke to Julia about the show, her curation process, and how the exhibition uncovers themes of women’s artistic practices in the 20th century.
Beth caught up with Pōneke-based writer Flora Feltham about her new book Bad Archive and her processes as a creative non-fiction writer.
Sofia spoke to Julia Waite about the Modern Women: Flight of Time, her curation process, and how the exhibition uncovers themes of women’s artistic practices in the 20th century.
Sofia spoke to Kaitohu Director Ruth Buchanan about This is the house that jack built, Artspace Aotearoa’s yearly group exhibition. She also caught up with one of the artists in the show, Ashleigh Taupaki, about the themes of the show and Taupaki’s work.
Sofia and Beth spoke with Acacia O’Connor about Asra, a documentary theatre piece as part of Auckland Fringe festival about experiences of Palestinian prisoners, and the importance of culture as practices of resistance and liberation.
And, to round off the show, we have your Arts Guide!
Flora Feltham is a writer from Pōneke Wellington. After completing her Masters in Creating Writing, she published Bad Archive, a book of essays, through Victoria University Press.
The language of Flora’s essays is expressive and provides for rich creative scope. Author Rose Lu described it as ‘idiosyncratic, warm and wry, [moving] seamlessly across time and space.’
Beth caught up with Flora about Bad Archive and her processes as a creative non-fiction writer.
For Stage Direction this week: Alice Canton is in to chat with Lee Smith-Gibbons and Florence Hartigan about Larybinth - a show at Pitt Street Theatre inspired by the beloved 80s fantasy movie, Labyrinth. You can get tickets here.
Quadraphonic Coats is a new exhibition by Wellington-born and Sydney-based artist Vita Cochran.
In exploring modernist forms and feminist histories, Cochran sources vintage coats from across decades, unpicks them, and repurposes them into something else.
In this way, Cochran describes this exhibition, Quadraphonic Coats, as a multi-generational gathering.
Sofia spoke to Vita about the exhibition and some of the feminist themes in her practice.
Beth has a kōrero with poets Jamie Trower, Georgie Silk and Kathy Frantz about their poetry collections and Birdboy Press, an independent publishing company founded and run by Jamie.
Sofia has a kōrero with artist Vita Cochran about Quadraphonic Coats, a new exhibition of hers at Anna Miles Gallery.
And for Stage Direction this week: Alice Canton is in to chat with Lee Smith-Gibbons and Florence Hartigan about Larybinth - a show at Pitt Street Theatre inspired by the beloved 80s fantasy movie, Labyrinth.
Birdboy Press is an independent publisher of poetry founded and run by poet Jamie Trower. Beth caught up with Jamie, and Birdboy poets Georgie Silk and Kathy Frantz, about their poetry collections, the process of collaboration and their experiences with independent publishing.
You can pick up a copy of Georgie and Kathy’s respective new collections of poetry, Peel and Motherland, from Time Out Bookstore or an independent bookstore near you.
Sofia had a kōrero with Francis McWhannell about a new group show at Season Gallery, Kith and Kin.
She also spoke to artist Layla Rudneva-Mackay about her new show at Melanie Roger Gallery, Wrinkled Speech.
And she spoke to curator Benny Chan about a new group exhibition at Bergman Gallery, Belonging: Stories of Contemporary New Zealand Asian Artists.
On Stage Direction this week: Alice Canton chats with Eden Webster about the programme for Koanga Festival, an upcoming festival at Te Pou Theatre that celebrates Maori storytelling and new voices.
Kith and Kin is a new group exhibition at Season Gallery with brunelle dias, Tony Guo, Levi Kereama, Claudia Kogachi, and the esteemed Jacqueline Fahey.
Testifying to the importance of strengthening community, Kith and Kin comprises stylistically diverse figure-based paintings exploring notions of family and friendship, ancestry and diaspora, identity and belonging.
Emblems of faith, evocative interiors, fields seen from the sky, and items of food both everyday and symbolic can be seen as common elements in the works.
Sofia spoke to Season Gallery co-curator, Francis McWhannell, about Kith and Kin, starting the interview asking him about the process for selecting artists.
Florence Hartigan and Shoshana McCallum chat to Alice Canton about their shows, Me, My Mother and Suzy Cato and Merely Beloved! on at the Herald Theatre from 8-10 May.
Mayen Mehta and Ryan O'Kane from Auckland Theatre Company joined Sofia in the studio to chat about Murder on the Orient Express, on at ASB Waterfront Theatre 22 April - 10 May.
John Davies joined Sofia and Beth in studio to chat about Te Tupua - The Goblin, a solo play written and performed by Davies himself. Tickets for tonight's show at Te Pou Theatre here.
Ahi Karunaharan joined Beth and Sofia in the studio to talk about a mixtape for maladies, the final chapter of Karunaharan's trilogy. The play tells the story of 17 nostalgic pop tracks which chart the deeply moving journey of Sangeetha and her family in 1950s Sri Lanka. a mixtape for maladies is on at ASB Waterfront Theatre from the 4th March. You can get your tickets here.
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