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Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Join Sofia and Maya for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025, 84.42 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

This week on Various Artists!

Sofia had a kōrero with curator and Director of Public Record Yuka O’Shannessy about Ma 間, an exhibition she curated currently on at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead. 

Maya had a kōrero with artist Li Si Rong about Murmuration, her exhibition currently on at Sanderson Contemporary. 

Sofia also caught up with Peter Robinson about the making of Differences in kind and rhythm, a dialogue exhibition of his work paired with Italian painter Georgio Griffa, on now at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery. 

Lastly, Maya chatted with Karin Montgomery about her exhibition The Camelia Society, currently on at Objectspace.  

Ma 間 w/ Yuka O’Shannessy and Anita Tótha: 4th July, 2025

Ma 間 w/ Yuka O’Shannessy and Anita Tótha: 4th July, 2025 Ma 間 w/ Yuka O’Shannessy and Anita Tótha: 4th July, 2025, 35.54 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Ma 間 is a new exhibition curated by Yuka O’Shannessy on at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead. 

With a background rooted in her upbringing in Japan and exploration of artistic mediums and making, including her pursuit of fashion studies, Yuka has a refined, distinct, and thoughtful aesthetic as the Director of Public Record. 

Ma is often translated to mean ‘gap’, ‘space’, or ‘interval’, referring to a space that creates harmony between elements. Exploring space, connection, and transformation, Ma 間 traverses the Japanese concept with a ‘series of intentional pauses, moments of tension, openness, and calm, that invite reflection and connection within an environment.’ Showcasing the works of 28 artists as sourced from the Arts House Trust’s collection, as well as Public Record’s and other selected artists, this exhibition presents a considered curation, presentation, and appreciation of craftsmanship and refined and unique visual expression. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Yuka O’Shannessy, as well as Director of the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Anita Tote-ah, about the show.

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025, 84.42 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Sofia had a kōrero with curator and Director of Public Record, Yuka O’Shannessy, and Director of the Arts House Trust, Anita Tótha, about Ma - Yuka’s guest show which opened last week.  

Maya had a kōrero with Artists Karin Montomery, about her current exhibition The Camellia Society on now at Object Space.

Sofia also had a kōrero with artist Peter Robinson about his show on at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery with Italian painter Giorgio Griffa, Differences in kind and rhythm.

Maya also had a chat with artist Li Si Rong about her current show on at Sanderson, Murmuration

Whakarongo mai x

Murmuration w/ Li Si Rong: 4th July, 2025

Murmuration w/ Li Si Rong: 4th July, 2025 Murmuration w/ Li Si Rong: 4th July, 2025, 15.58 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Murmuration is a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Li Si Rong

Within Murmuration Li Si Rong presents a body of work that hovers between the everyday and an imagined dream-like space, navigating humanity's relationship with the home, and the things inside them.

Her paintings Sing with sweeping colours and dance amongst familiar forms while pulling the viewer into a world of the paintings themselves; that of a feeling of home and into a space of community. 

Mobile like structures hang alongside the paintings, playing a careful balancing act like that of the movements of starlings, Murmuration.  Li Si Rong uses Murmuration as a metaphor for community, shifting the gallery space into a place of murmuration itself, bringing us together into a space of warmth when we need it most.

Maya had a chat with Li Si Rong about Murmuration, as well as her overall practice .

The Camellia Society w/ Karin Montgomery: 4th July, 2025

The Camellia Society W/ Karin Montgomery: 4th July, 2025 The Camellia Society W/ Karin Montgomery: 4th July, 2025, 20.23 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Karin Montgomery is a craft-based artist, working from a background in textiles, interior design and her innate passion for ecology.

Montgomery shows an attentiveness to her ecological surroundings, and prides herself as a gardener and an observer with always an interest in making.

As an observer, Montgomery has drawn close attention to the Camellia flower within her current exhibition at Object Space, The Camellia Society. The show presents ten beautifully detailed hand-crafted replica paper Camellias that line the gallery in an ode to a garden.

Paying close attention to a normally overlooked Camellia plant, Karin puts its beauty to the forefront, reminding us of the little nuggets of beauty sitting right in our backyard. Inviting viewers to engage with attentiveness and to become observers of the beauty within our own ecological surroundings.

Maya had a kōrero with Karin about the show and her overall practice.

Concrete w/ Ruth Cleland: 27th June, 2025

Concrete w/ Ruth Cleland: 27th June, 2025 Concrete w/ Ruth Cleland: 27th June, 2025, 18.38 MB
Fri 27 Jun 2025

Concrete is Ruth Cleland’s second solo exhibition of new and previously unexhibited works, currently on at Sumer Gallery.

Cleland is known for her photorealistic depictions of everyday subjects and scenes, with this exhibition exploring concrete flooring in locations and sites she regularly encounters. The works are more than representations of concrete, but a collection representative of equanimity, eliciting a state of quietude within the viewer.

This body of work shows a subtle but significant development in Cleland’s practice, whereby more emphasis has been placed on the interrelationship between her gridded paintings and photorealistic concrete floor depictions, and how they respond to one another. As in previous works, this exhibition continues Cleland’s ‘sustained inquiry into image and grid—of subject, time, and value—as she traverses the hyperreal and abstract.’

Sofia had a kōrero with Ruth about Concrete, as well as her practice and process more generally.

Rituals W/ Tūī Diprose: 27th of June, 2025

Rituals W/ Tūī Diprose: 27th of June, 2025 Rituals W/ Tūī Diprose: 27th of June, 2025, 21.18 MB
Fri 27 Jun 2025

Tūī Diprose is a queer Interdisciplinary Artist and body worker of holistic healing. In a coming together of knowledge they engage within an artistic practice that centers in jewelry, installation and writing through an exploration of themes of Place, environmentalism, and decolonization.

Diprose’s current exhibition Rituals, at RM weaves together an array of artistic techniques and materials; Silver, sapphire, bone, harakeke, and clay gather within the show to create a symphony of material dialogue.

The works within the show are created within a space of ritual, between a bridging of the physical and metaphysical words, with the spirit world alive. The rituals of diproses creative practice translates to a show that welcomes audiences into a space of ritual, as well as a welcoming into the act of ritual itself.  

Maya had a chat with Tūī about the show.

She started off by asking Tui to speak to their overall practice, their use of mediums, as well as their key themes.

 

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 27th June, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 27th June, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 27th June, 2025, 83.18 MB
Fri 27 Jun 2025

Maya had a kōrero with Artist Tūī Diprose about their current exhibition Rituals, on now at RM.

Sofia had a kōrero with Tarika Sabherwal about her current show at Season Aotearoa, Alag.

She also caught up with Emily Hartley-Skudder about Unerased: Made in Palestine, a fundraiser exhibition opening tonight in Ponsonby. 

Sofia also spoke to Ruth Cleland about her current exhibition at Sumer, Concrete.

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Unerased: Made in Palestine w/ Emily Hartley-Skudder: 27th June, 2025

Unerased: Made in Palestine w/ Emily Hartley-Skudder: 27th June, 2025 Unerased: Made in Palestine w/ Emily Hartley-Skudder: 27th June, 2025, 29.31 MB
Fri 27 Jun 2025

Unerased: Made in Palestine is an exhibition by Pōneke-based artist Emily Hartley-Skudder, illustrator, maker, and activist Pinky Fang, and multi-disciplinary artist Nathan Taare, opening tonight at 250 Ponsonby Road. 

The exhibition began with Pinky’s mother discovering a collection of imported vintage cosmetics at an estate sale in the Hawkes Bay, of which a variety of beauty products - deodorant, hair oil, baby powder, toothpaste, and more - were labelled ‘Made in Palestine’. Notably, the products are all from pre-1948, and a number of the brands are most likely European Zionist manufacturers who had immigrated to Palestine before rebranding their labelling to “Made in Israel” in 1948.

All proceeds from the exhibition go towards Convoys of Good for families in Gaza.

Sofia had a kōrero with Emily Hartley-Skudder about the making of Unerased: Made in Palestine and the exhibition’s kaupapa.

All works are also available online, here

Alag w/ Tarika Sabherwal: 27th June, 2025

Alag w/ Tarika Sabherwal: 27th June, 2025 Alag w/ Tarika Sabherwal: 27th June, 2025, 19.55 MB
Fri 27 Jun 2025

Alag is artist Tarika Sabherwal’s first solo exhibition at Season Aoteaora. 

The title itself has a double meaning, by which it can be read as either alāg, as in the Hindi word for separate, apart, parted, or different; or a lag, as in a lag in communication or a glitch in some sort of system. 

The images are drawn from Hindi iconography, continuing a theme in Sabherwal’s practice of exploring and reimagining well-known motifs, as seen in paintings of horses and felines, for example. 

The works show a continuation of a side of Sabherwal’s practice which uses an airbrush tool to paint onto raw canvas, creating a dyed effect and bold contrast. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Tarika about her practice and Alag.