Various Artists with Sofia & Beth

Liam talks to Taylor Nixon from Proud Dad about their upcoming mix and mingle events in Tāmaki Makaurau, and Alena Kavka from Te Tuhi gallery about their upcoming exhibitions. 

Frances speak to Patricia Watson, Executive director of WIFT (Women in Film and Television) about new data on the gender pay gap in the screen industry. 

And finally we have your art guide for Tāmaki Makarau this week.

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

First Liam talks live about the Altered Ego Market with organisers Cinta and Gabby, taking place at Nice Goblins on the 20th of August.

Frances then speaks with Tiakitai, Karen and Gervaise about the Ōwairaka Community Club a non-clinical, creative space and community in Mt Albert for adults with lived experience of mental health issues. 

Liam also had a chat with Will Greeson and Iulia Boscu from Without Appeal about their ‘A Garden to Banish Loneliness’ exhibition in the window gallery of studio 445.

Frances also chats to Tawhai Rickard, the recent winner of the National Contemporary Art Award about his winning work.

She then speak to Stepanie Post, director of Art Now about their new Art Walks, taking us around public art in the city.  

And finally we have your art guide for Tāmaki Makarau this week.

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.