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Dreaming From Afar is a new group exhibition showing at Gus Fisher which brings together the practices of Gian Manik, Brunelle Dias Primbs, and Tyrone Te Waa. The show circulates the complexities of history, and nostalgia through this painterly language that seeks to morph the physical with the imagined. 

Gian Manik is a Naarm-based painter, who produces mesmerising works that play with ​​various tropes preserved within the historical painting genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture. Within Dreaming From Afar Manik showcases a beautiful body of paintings that includes various methods of painterly application. Intimate and finely rendered works on oil on canvas, as well as these lively frescos that become one with the gallery space itself. 

The works themselves bring together Manik's fascination with historical painting, and old masters, alongside his research and exploration of orientalism and queer representation within art history. Pulling these themes together in space to produce works that grapple with the entrenched hetero and ethnocentric hierarchies of the western art cannon.

Maya caught up with Gian about the show and overall practice.

Recently, the government has amended gang legislation that would allow police officers to enter private properties of repeat offenders showcasing emblems, patches, and insignia.

The New Zealand Law Society sent an open letter, sent by the society’s vice president, David Campbell, outlining their concerns for the proposal.

The concerns raised include how gang insignia is identified, which if the clause is taken literally, could be interpreted as printed reproductions of logos, which could make it illegal to own newspapers or certain books with gang insignia in it, increasing in the risk of someone to be criminally liable around someone in possession of gang memorabilia, concerns that the amendment will have detrimental effects to communities and whānau in which gang members reside in, as well as infringing on rights protected by the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.

News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to the Convenor for the New Zealand Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee, Chris Macklin, about the committee’s open letter and the ethics of the amendment.

Peter Lineham talks Jerusalem. He discusses the current and historical significance of the city across cultures, religions and to political climates.

News Editor Lillian Hanly got in touch with Pania Newton about the land at Ihumatao in Manukau, and Fletchers plans to build on it. Newton is heading the movement against Fletchers, and discusses the land which was supposed to be added to the Otuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve.