Various Artists with Sofia & Beth

For Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton speaks to Freya Silas Finch about A Slow Burlesque. More information about the show is here. 

On Various Artists this week!

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!

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.