bCasts

Ruby Wilkinson is an emerging artist whose paintings explore aspects of the environment, specifically those close to her and her memories. Leaning into her surroundings as well as her painterly intuition to produce these beautiful works that dance with bold swooping gestures, and vibrant earthy colours that sing out to those saturated within nature.  

Her work Parade is currently showing as part of A Moment to Hold at The Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead. An exhibition bringing together seven female artists engaged in painting and drawing, featuring works by brunelle diaz, Hannah Ireland, Christina Pataialii, Johanna Pegler, Kate Small, Barbara Tuck, and Ruby Wilkinson. 

Wilkinson's work Parade showcases a stunning large scale sculptural curtain, made up of 8 calico panels that have each been treated as a painting in itself. Coming together to form a breathtaking display of movement and colour, that pulls viewers into its world of warm sun sets and memories—allowing a moment of hold within the fleeting memories of time.

Happy Rāmere! Rosetta and Milly have another great brekkie chocka full of tunes for you to end the week with a bang - plus, your chance to win a double pass to Iggy Pop, Joan Jett and ZED, and a bag of eighthirty classic blend coffee! 

Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Elise McDermott is a Tāmaki-based artist, whose sculptural and installation practice explores everyday encounters with nostalgia, memory, and cultures of consumerism and production through found objects and materials. 

In her current exhibition at RM Gallery, Pop Sediment, McDermott has reconstructed and recontextualised these objects’ forms, letting familiar references and playful aesthetics of pop culture and our domestic worlds enter the gallery and public space. In giving them these altered identities, the work serves as an opportunity to reconsider their value, challenging our preexisting conceptions of these objects’ worth through this material language. 

Sof had a kōrero with Elise about the show and her overall practice. 

Welcome to this bcast: 2-3 hours of tunes edited for best listening experience (aka min yabbering) 

trip hop to chill local tunes, finishing on a mix from the Cocteau twins to Florence Adooni. 3 Tracks from Haruomi Hosonos's 1995 N.D.E. album are played with info sourced here. A bFM listener's poem reccomendation: And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes

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