Various Artists with Sofia & Beth

Just last night at Studio 445 on Karangahape Road, the Without Appeal Collective’s ‘A Garden To Banish Loneliness’ window exhibition had its opening night. 

The exhibition will be on until the sixteenth of August, and explore collaborators Will Greeson and Iulia Boscu take on a futuristic sci-fi landscape that reassess the optimism that used to be in futuristic fiction. 
Liam had a chat with the duo to learn more about the exhibition and what went into it.

Tauranga artist Tawhai Rickard has won this year’s National Contemporary Art Award for his installation Scenes from a Victorian Restaurant. For Various Artists this week, Frances had the pleasure of speaking with Tawhai about the work, its meaning, and his process in making it.

First up we talk with Professor Annie Goldson about her new film premiering in the international film festival “Red Mole”, a story about a radical theatre troupe which emerged out of New Zealand’s counterculture in the early 1970s.

 Liam had a chat with Ned Wenlock about his new graphic novel Tsunami, releasing on August 1st.

Frances talks to Mark Williams, Director of CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image about their film screening and publication launch for Otherwise Worlding, a new reader on Artists Animation happening tomorrow evening at Te Uru. 

Liam chats to Nathan Pōhio at Toi o Tamaki, the Auckland Art Gallery, about Ever Present, focusing on the art of Australia's First Peoples.

A radical theatre troupe which emerged out of New Zealand’s counterculture in the early 1970s is the subject of Red Mole: A Romance, a new film by Professor Annie Goldson with strong links to the University of Auckland. It premieres at the 2023 Whānau Mārama International Film Festival (opening 19 July) on 4 and 5 August at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. To hear about the film Frances caught up with Annie on Various Artists this week.