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The Portage Ceramic Awards is an annual exhibition of contemporary ceramics in Aotearoa, showing at Te Uru Gallery. The award was established in 2001 and embraces the rich history of working with clay in West Auckland.
Portage 2024 includes 42 works by 40 artists. Finalist works range from intimate functional objects to large-scale ephemeral installations. The concerns of the exhibited works are also diverse, embodying the natural world and the origins of clay, the intimate connection between Māori and whenua, the freedom of working with clay, and the precise technicalities of sculpting, firing, and glazing.
Beth caught up with ceramicist Peter Derksen about his practice and the exhibition.
Pushing Parallels is a new group exhibition on at the Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead. Showcasing a diverse range of multidisciplinary artists from across Aotearoa, the exhibition features works from The Arts House Trust collection alongside invited artists who, although formally trained in one discipline, have ventured into new artistic territories.
Pushing Parallels encourages the artists to experiment, pushing the limits of their mediums to create a playground of colour and form to re-learn and question traditional art practices. Each room within the exhibition serves as a chapter, distinctively coloured and themed, yet interconnected through relationships between material, process, and scale.
Sofia spoke to the co-curators of Pushing Parallels, Abbie La Rooy, Kiki Hall, and Michael Prosee about the exhibition and the curation process.
Dr Kirsten Zemke traces the history indie, beginning with the cassette tape compilation C86 released by NME in 1986 the UK - the first use of 'indie' as a genre rather than independent release. Whakarongo mai nei!
Beth had a kōrero with ceramicist Peter Derksen about The Portage Ceramic Awards 2024. The exhibition is showing now at Te Uru Waitakere Gallery.
Pushing Parallels is a new group exhibition on at the Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead. Sofia had a kōrero with the co-curators, Abbie La Rooy, Kiki Hall, and Michael Prosee about the exhibition and the curation process.
Alice Canton joins us in-studio to chat to George Fowler about Naughty! A Christmas Drag Extravaganza is on at Basement Theatre from the 17th to 21st December. You can get tickets from basementtheatre.co.nz.