Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Cat Fooks is a Tāmaki based, material led painter who immerses herself within the world of her studio. In which Cat no longer views it as just a physical space but rather its own dimension built up of paint and clutter that is crucial to the making of the works. 

Her current exhibition Didymus Mountain presents a series of vibrant and playful paintings. Little worlds of abstract colour and texture that seem to rebel against the typical convention of the frame. Engulfing the frame itself in a multitude of rich layers of paint, rejecting this ‘framing’ and instead bringing it into the world of the painting itself. Eliminating this space between the painting and the space of the world.

Maya had a chat with Cat about her overall practice and the show.

Maya had a kōrero with poet Liz Breslin about her latest book Show you’re working out.  

Sof had a kōrero with Steve Carr about his current exhibition How to Disappear at Gow Langsford which opened earlier this week.

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Liz Breslin is a queer poet, editor and performer. Her new book, Show you’re working out is a collection of poems that weave together topics of complicity, cycling, DIY, domestic abuse, the queerness of hands, pride, pilates, wellness culture and white supremacy. 

The title of the book, Show your working out, shows a play on the word ‘your’/’you’re’. One being 'your' which references what we were asked to do with our maths equations in school when we were young, show your working. And the other 'you're' speaks to how it feels important to show that you’re working out, within a relationship or a small community when you are wanting to be accepted. Together, Destabilising the singular narrative within the collection. 

Maya had a chat with Liz about her creative practice as well as her new book.

Throw is an exhibition of new paintings by Philip Kelly at Charles Ninow Gallery.

Showing a continuation of Kelly’s long-time ‘turntable’ painting series, this new body of work shows a shift in Kelly’s process by replacing the record player as a mode of making with the electric potter’s wheel. These abstract images are bright explorations of form and colour through a process of applying, removing, and manipulating paint on a rotating surface to form works that are almost rhythmic and musical in nature, speaking to the exploration of the interrelationship between music and art, which drives much of Kelly’s artistic practice. 

Sof had a kōrero with Philip Kelly about the show and these themes.