Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

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.

Maya had a kōrero with Raisa Mclean about her current show, Heatwave, on at RM Gallery. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Senior Curator International Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Dr Sophie Matthiesson, about the gallery’s latest exhibition - A Century of Modern Art - surveying the visionary painters who transformed Western modern art.

She also had a kōrero with Esther Stone about her show opening at Melanie Roger Gallery next week for Matariki, Taonga Tuku Iho.

Raisa Mclean is a Melbourne based interdisciplinary Artist navigating her practice through a mode of visual song-making. Mclean produces bodies of work that speak to themes of hauntology, and the ephemerality of memory.

In an attempt to hold and to give form to memory, Mclean explores multiple modes of narrative within her current show Heatwave to welcome viewers into an installation of a fragmented diary. Memories of summers, both past present and future, each haunted by the other. 

Maya had a chat with Raisa about her practice and current show Heatwave on at RM.

Tala o le tau is an exhibition showing new and significant work by Angela Tiatia and Yuki Kihara opening tonight at Gus Fisher Gallery.

The exhibition title, Tala o le tau, meaning ‘stories from the weather’ in Sāmoan, borrows its name from the poetic translation of ‘weather forecasts’ used by Sāmoan weather services. Collectively, the works explore themes of the climate crisis in the Pacific, engaging with indigenous knowledge systems, femininity, and matrilineal histories to navigate into an uncertain future. 

Kihara’s work is a collaborative piece made with women from the Moata’a Aualuma Community, a group of skilled weavers and embroiderers based in the central north coast of Upolu Island, Sāmoa. Together, they have created five vibrantly coloured mats, reflecting a community, collective, and indigenous approach to issues of climate change. 

The exhibition is also showing a moving image work of Tiatia’s, The Dark Current, which is a three-part video acknowledging the past, present and future through a Sāmoan lens, exploring the intersections between colonialism, femininity, and our relationship with the virtual and physical realm. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Angela Tiatia about her work in Tala o le tau and her practice as a whole.