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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!

1985 w/ Dominic Hoey: 23rd May, 2025

1985 w/ Dominic Hoey: 23rd May, 2025 1985 w/ Dominic Hoey: 23rd May, 2025, 11.42 MB
Fri 23 May 2025

Dominic Hoey is a poet, author and youth worker from Tāmaki Makaurau. 

1985 is Dominic’s highly anticipated third novel. Set in pre-gentrified Auckland, it follows the story of Obi, who faces impending teenagehood after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence.

Beth caught up with Dominic about the writing of 1985.

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 23rd May, 2025

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 23rd May, 2025 Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 23rd May, 2025, 110.34 MB
Fri 23 May 2025

Beth's last show! :(

Sofia chatted with Director of Gow Langsford Gallery, John Gow, about their latest exhibition, Frances Hodgkins: Creating Space

She also caught up with artist Denys Watkins about his current exhibition at Ivan Anthony, There's a Bright Golden Haze on the Meadow

Beth chatted with author Dominic Hoey about his latest novel, 1985. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Billy T nominees David Stuart and Hoani Hotene joined Sofia in the studio to chat about their shows at Comedy Fest. 

Various Artists w/ Sofia: Rāmere 16th May, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia: Rāmere 16th May, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia: Rāmere 16th May, 2025, 104.99 MB
Fri 16 May 2025

Sofia had a kōrero with Ayesha Green about her current exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Ruin on the Cascade, and her practice generally

She also chatted with Judy Millar and Kate Newby about their respective practices in light of their current joint exhibition at Michael Lett Gallery. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton joined Sofia in the studio to chat with Annie Guo and Summer Xia about Comedy Fest.

Whakarongo mai e te whānau x

Judy Millar and Kate Newby at Michael Lett Gallery w/ Judy Millar and Kate Newby: 16th May, 2025

Judy Millar and Kate Newby at Michael Lett Gallery w/ Judy Millar and Kate Newby: 16th May, 2025 Judy Millar and Kate Newby at Michael Lett Gallery w/ Judy Millar and Kate Newby: 16th May, 2025, 31.62 MB
Fri 16 May 2025

Selected works by Judy Millar and Kate Newby are currently showing at Michael Lett Gallery. 

Judy Millar is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her work is intensely physical, working with processes of erasure, wiping or scraping paint off the surface of the work and contrasting choices of colour to create a tension between the background and foreground. Taking up space, works by Millar are often large-scale, engaging with the body and her work in a space.

Kate Newby is a visual artist from Tāmaki Makaurau who lives and works in Floresville, Texas. Her work engages with a wide range of situations using every-day actions and materials in order to displace and challenge how contemporary art is exhibited, viewed, and archived. She manipulates, fires, and arranges elements from the natural world and built environment, creating site-responsive installations, often with projects drawing directly from the locations in which they are exhibited and the sites she works in. 

Sofia caught up with both Judy and Kate about their practices in light of the show. 

Ruin on the Cascade w/ Ayesha Green: 16th May, 2025

Ruin on the Cascade w/ Ayesha Green: 16th May, 2025 Ruin on the Cascade w/ Ayesha Green: 16th May, 2025, 22.03 MB
Fri 16 May 2025

Ruin on the Cascade is Ayesha Green’s (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) first solo exhibition with Season Aotearoa. 

The title refers to a faux ruin in Stowe Gardens, a Georgian landscape garden in Buckinghamshire established in the early 18th century by British army officer and Whig politician Richard Temple, the 1st Viscount Cobham. Using the Stowe Gardens as a framework, Green explores a range of subjects, including class, land use, knowledge systems, ethics, national identity, and British imperialism through her painting and sculptural practice. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Ayesha about Ruin on the Cascade, her research and thinking behind the works, and her practice as a whole

Comedy Festival w/ Evie Orpe and Becky Umbers: 9th May, 2025

Comedy Festival w/ Evie Orpe and Becky Umbers: 9th May, 2025 Comedy Festival w/ Evie Orpe and Becky Umbers: 9th May, 2025, 21.23 MB
Fri 9 May 2025

Alice Canton chats to comedians Evie Orpe and Becky Umbers about their upcoming shows for Comedy Festival. 

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 9th May, 2025

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 9th May, 2025 Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 9th May, 2025, 109.89 MB
Fri 9 May 2025

Sofia had a kōrero with Matariki Bennett about her debut poetry collection, e kō, nō hea koe, out now via Dead Bird Books

She also caught up w Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa, Ruth Buchanan, about their latest exhibition, Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time (approximately 10 minutes) by Lina Grumm and Ethan Braun. 

And Beth had a kōrero with Ruby Macomber about Streetside, Auckland Writer’s Festival’s annual fringe event. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton joined Sofia in the studio to chat with Evie Orpe and Becky Umbers about Comedy Fest. 

e kō, nō hea koe w/ Matariki Bennett: 9th May, 2025

e kō, nō hea koe w/ Matariki Bennett: 9th May, 2025 e kō, nō hea koe w/ Matariki Bennett: 9th May, 2025, 14.23 MB
Fri 9 May 2025

e kō, nō hea koe is the debut poetry collection by award-winning slam poet and filmmaker Matariki Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi). 

Published by Dead Bird Books, e kō, nō hea koe is “a series of goodbyes and attempts to slow the shedding, it's a group of teenagers sparking up as they watch the great pacific garbage patch catapult into space and become a second moon, it's endless conversations with Grandmama about stars, it is the constant rebirth of whakapapa and learning that silence isn’t the best part of her.” 

Sofia caught up with Matariki about the themes of this body of work and how it came to fruition.

Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time (approximately 10 minutes) w/ Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa, Ruth Buchanan: 9th May, 2025

Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time (approximately 10 minutes) w/ Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa, Ruth Buchanan: 9th May, 2025 Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time (approximately 10 minutes) w/ Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa, Ruth Buchanan: 9th May, 2025, 14.56 MB
Fri 9 May 2025

Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time (approximately 10 minutes) is a new exhibition by graphic designer Lina Grumm and composer Ethan Braun at Artspace Aotearoa. 

The exhibition tends to relationships between sound, space, the visual, and the body, inviting deep listening and limitless interpretation, and engendering a gallery in constant flux. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa, Ruth Buchanan, about the show and the artists.

Streetside w/ director Ruby Macomber: 9th May, 2025

Streetside w/ director Ruby Macomber: 9th May, 2025 Streetside w/ director Ruby Macomber: 9th May, 2025, 13.96 MB
Fri 9 May 2025

Streetside is Auckland Writers Festival’s annual fringe event, taking place tonight in the heart of Britomart to coincide with the festival’s opening night.

It features a range of literary events, with guest appearances from writers.

Beth caught up with director of Streetside for 2025, Ruby Macomber, about the events planned for tonight