Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Dance, Dance is artist Kate van Der Drift's current exhibition on now at Sanderson Gallery. 

It showcases the artist's time spent at the Waitawa Regional Park, where she was the 2024 Auckland Council artist in residence. During her residency, Kate delved into a new experimental method of cameraless photography. These new methods of Lumen exposures are created by using invasive introduced species from the Waitawa Regional Park and using the specific herbicide that is used to kill that plant.

In a coming together of alchemical entities and experimentation, Kate lands on these beautiful moments of magic—breathtaking images that dance between worlds. 

Maya had a chat with Kate about her practice and current exhibition.

Beth's last show! :(

Sofia chatted with Director of Gow Langsford Gallery, John Gow, about their latest exhibition, Frances Hodgkins: Creating Space

She also caught up with artist Denys Watkins about his current exhibition at Ivan Anthony, There's a Bright Golden Haze on the Meadow

Beth chatted with author Dominic Hoey about his latest novel, 1985. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Billy T nominees David Stuart and Hoani Hotene joined Sofia in the studio to chat about their shows at Comedy Fest. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Ayesha Green about her current exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Ruin on the Cascade, and her practice generally

She also chatted with Judy Millar and Kate Newby about their respective practices in light of their current joint exhibition at Michael Lett Gallery. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton joined Sofia in the studio to chat with Annie Guo and Summer Xia about Comedy Fest.

Whakarongo mai e te whānau x

Selected works by Judy Millar and Kate Newby are currently showing at Michael Lett Gallery. 

Judy Millar is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her work is intensely physical, working with processes of erasure, wiping or scraping paint off the surface of the work and contrasting choices of colour to create a tension between the background and foreground. Taking up space, works by Millar are often large-scale, engaging with the body and her work in a space.

Kate Newby is a visual artist from Tāmaki Makaurau who lives and works in Floresville, Texas. Her work engages with a wide range of situations using every-day actions and materials in order to displace and challenge how contemporary art is exhibited, viewed, and archived. She manipulates, fires, and arranges elements from the natural world and built environment, creating site-responsive installations, often with projects drawing directly from the locations in which they are exhibited and the sites she works in. 

Sofia caught up with both Judy and Kate about their practices in light of the show.