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.
New Order - Ceremony
Tackhead - Airborn Ranger
Threat.Meet.Protocol (NZ) - The Cure
The Mint Chicks (NZ) - Post No Bills
Public Image Ltd - Swanlake
General Levy - Champagne Body
Interpol - Evil
Shihad (NZ) - Gimme Gimme Gimme
Age Of Chance - Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Noise?
Saint Etienne - Conchita Martinez
Burning Sensations - Pablo Picasso (Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers cover)
Abrasive Wheels - First Rule, No Rule
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC squared
Fish For Life (NZ) - Toast
[melter] - Metal (Gary Numan cover)
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It
Alice Donut - Lisa’s Father (Waka Baby)
Son Solut & Painspeople (NZ) - Trips Inside Your Mind
The White Stripes - Little Bird
UK Subs - Down On The Farm
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
Mokotron (NZ) - Ko Wai Koe
Pendulum - Mascochist VIP
Bad Brains - Rise
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