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.
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 .
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.
Differences in kind and rhythm is the second in a series of dialogue exhibitions made at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery since 2024, for which artists from Aotearoa are paired with international artists.
Curated by James Gatt, this exhibition pairs the work of senior multidisciplinary artist Peter Robinson and Italian painter Giorgio Griffa, eliciting a considered and cross-cultural conversation between the works and their respective practices.
Together, the paintings by Griffa and sculptural forms by Robinson have shared qualities of repeated forms and movements that respond to related concepts of repetition and difference, emergence and continuum. Common threads can be seen within the works through the complex, lyrical, the sharp and soft, illustrating subtle distinctions between similar forms and difference in expression.
Sofia had a kōrero with Peter Robinson about the making of Differences in kind and rhythm.
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.
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