Join Sofia Roger Williams and Beth Torrance-Hetherington for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!
Show Me Shorts Film Festival is Aotearoa New Zealand's leading international short film festival.
With its mission to connect New Zealand audiences with short films, the festival brings together 126 screenings of 85 short films at 40 cinema venues across Aotearoa this year.
Sofia spoke with the Festival Director, Gina Dellabarca, about the programme for this year.
Building Patterns is a new exhibition by artist Tia Ansell. Tia weaves patterns to explore the language of abstraction, symbolism, material culture and architectural structures.
Tia emphasises the influence of these textile patterns, referencing geometric shapes on facades of high-rise buildings.
Beth had a kōrero with Tia about Building Patterns and the creative properties of weaving.
Identity Crisis is a collaborative exhibition by artists Otis Frizzell and Mike Weston showing at Eyes on Fire Gallery till Monday. Otis Frizzell was renowned in the nineties for being one half of the hip hop duo MCOJ Rhythm Slave.
Otis and Mike are renowned for the pop art works, most notably their Jacinda Ardern ‘Aroha’ screen print that pays homage to one of the most famous Obama ‘Hope’ print.
Beth caught up with him this abouthim about Identity Crisis and the evolution of his pop art over the past twenty years.
Sofia had a kōrero with artist Fiona Jack about Public Clay, an exhibition of hers currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery.
Beth had a kōrero with artist Tia Ansell about her exhibition Building Patterns, currently showing at Suite Gallery.
Sofia also spoke with the director of Show Me Shorts Film Festival, Gina Dellabarca, about the programme this year.
Beth had a kōrero with artist Otis Frizzell about his and Mike Weston’s exhibition, Identity Crisis.
And for Stage Direction this week: Alice Canton is in to chat with Freya Silas Finch about A Slow Burlesque, on at Basement Theatre from the 3rd to 19th October.
Sofia spoke with artist Séraphine Pick about her exhibition Rider Instinct currently on at Te Uru Gallery. With several of the works exhibited with ceramic components and found objects, Rider Instinct brings together selected works from Pick’s practice: works on paper and her ‘combined paintings’.
Beth had a chat with artist and weaver Ngaroma Riley about her exhibition Once Were Gardners showing at Season Gallery. It comprises a group of painted carvings that draw inspiration from a lecture of the same name by the late Moana Jackson.
And for Stage Direction today, Alice Canton chats to Oli Mathieson and Paige Downard from Black Grace about the show, The Next Wave, on at the Herald Theatre.
To round off the show, we have your weekly Arts Guide!
Once Were Gardeners is an exhibition by artist and carver Ngaroma Riley, currently showing at Season Gallery. It comprises a group of painted carvings that draw inspiration from a lecture of the same name by the late Moana Jackson.
The carvings reflect on and celebrate precolonial Māori life, and emphasise the fact that a core meaning of the term Māori is ‘natural’.
Beth had a kōrero with Ngaroma about Once Were Gardeners and the carving process.
Rider Instinct is an exhibition by Séraphine Pick currently on at Te Uru Gallery.
Over the course of her 30-year career, artist Séraphine Pick has become one of the most celebrated painters in Aotearoa.
With several of the works exhibited with ceramic components and found objects, Rider Instinct brings together selected works from Pick’s practice: works on paper and her ‘combined paintings’.
Sofia spoke to Séraphine about the exhibition and her practice.
Today marks 3 years since the pioneer pop and conceptual artist, Billy Apple died.
Billy Apple® | Progressives and Other Self-Portraits currently on at Starkwhite Gallery is the first exhibition staged in Aotearoa New Zealand since the artist’s death.
The show centres on an extended series of Progressives: experimental self-portraits Apple made between 1963 and 1967, as well as works from Apple’s Paids and Head Height collection.
Sofia had the privilege to speak with Billy’s wife and partner, Mary Apple, who has also been a key member of ‘Team Apple’ for over 25 years about Billy and this show.
Risk is a new exhibition by Tim Wagg. It’s centred on the Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Warkworth Project.
Through a series of printed aluminium panels, Wagg depicts the physical infrastructure of the road alongside the corporate structure underlying the asset’.
Beth had a kōrero with Tim about Risk and the creative thinking behind the project.
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