E.U.G., what does it stand for? Whakarongo mai nei to find out and also catch a blistering set by the Pōneke post-punk quartet before they head up Karangahape Road to support Goya on the Auckland leg of the tour across the motu.
Taking advantage of recent tours by Te-Whanganui-a-Tara bands, we're stoked to host Goya in the bFM studio to hear a couple tracks from their wicked LP Home Turf before they head up to Whammy Bar.
Tali is a group show exhibiting artists Serene Hodgman, Claudia Jowitt, Sione Monū, Ahilapalapa Rands, and Salome Tanuvasa, currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery.
Facilitated by Claudia Jowitt, the show sees the artists weaving and plaiting together histories and traditional practices of the South Pacific from a contemporary diasporic lens grounded within their respective whakapapa, transforming the space into one of vibrance and joy through their mixed mediums and approaches.
Sofia had a kōrero with Claudia Jowitt about the making of the show, and those included.
Provenance III is a new group exhibition on at Ivan Anthony, the third of its exhibition series. Provenance brings together a collection of artists, emerging, established as well as European Antiquities. Pulling them together in space to create this rich cosmos of dialogue. A unique encounter between works that speak to this lineage of storytelling.
Maya had a kōrero with two of the artists showing work within Provenance III Sophie Grieg and Erika Holm. Speaking to them on their respective practices and works within the show.
Sophie Grieg produces mesmerizing paintings that draw from the medieval, renaissance, illuminated manuscripts, as well as personal family narratives. Creating works enriched with intricate webs of fairy-tale-like fables, encased in these architectural framing devices. Housing these women of Greig’s practice, as well as their stories and lessons that they pass on.
Erika Holm creates beautiful sculptures that are informed by items of furniture and house hold objects that demand this connection of body, and to an act of ritual. Holm takes these ritualistic objects and embeds their core structure with forms of the body. Re-attaching the body to these points of human connection that are held within the daily rituals of objects.
The Future is an exhibition presenting new and recent work by Berlin-based artist Simon Denny, currently on at Michael Lett Gallery.
In channelling the spirit of aeropainting and Italian Futurism, Denny employs contemporary methods of making with today’s technology to create two new series of paintings whereby both mechanical and painterly qualities transpire, aiding in a recontextualisation of 20th-century modernism.
Sofia had a kōrero with Simon Denny about the show and his overall practice.
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