Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

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.

Sof has a kōrero with Philip Kelly about his new exhibition, Throw, opening tonight at Charles Ninow Gallery.

Maya has a kōrero with Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley about their current show at RM, aao, batt karo (come, talk to me), the aperture of the moon.

And Sof chatted with Venus Blacklaws and Daniella Bay of artist collective The Killing about their current exhibition and collective video work, 15 Minutes of Fame, currently on at Plomacy Gallery.

Shannon Conacher is a South African, Tāmaki based artist. Working amongst a variety of mediums with a central focus on moving image and video.

Her current exhibition, The Archive Room, showing at RM navigates RM's own archive and archive room. Bringing into focus a space that might be typically overlooked. An archive of ephemera that dates back to the artist-run space’s opening in 1997, with many of the artworks within the archive being largely unknown of its maker.

Within the archive room Conacher approaches the archive as a living, breathing site. Re-positioning the archive into an active site of touch and encounter. Through a process of material dialogue between Conacher and the archived art works. working with a light touch to preserve the works agency, but enough to bring them forth into a space of active dialogue.

Maya had chat with Shannon Conacher about her practice and current show The Archive Room.