Maya caught up with artist Michael Proseé about his solo exhibition Scallop Immersion at Sanc Gallery which opened this week
And Sof had a kōrero with artist Brunelle Dias about her practice and work in A Moment to Hold, a group show currently on at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead.
Sof catches up with Skye Lunson-Storey (Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) about her solo exhibition currently on at Window Gallery, Te Mauri o te Wai.
And Maya catches up with Briana Jamieson about Garden Day currently on at Sanderson Contemporary.
This week Sofie flies solo, sans Jude! Joined by the wonderful Gabi, the show storms through the miserable weather with some sunny feel-good tracks and a sprinkling of English & Russian Post Punk.
Heaven is the place where nothing ever happens, ya frothers! Heaven is the mighty B. ⛅🧘💫🌌🪄
Zac Langdon-Pole is a Tāmaki-based artist whose primarily sculptural-based practice explores contrasting concepts and imagery, proposing unlikely juxtapositions into these often hybrid forms.
His current solo exhibition at Lett Thomas Gallery, Caterpillar Soup, presents a series of jigsaw puzzle collages, whereby the artist has placed the pieces of puzzles to make these combined collaged images. Imagery of warfare, volcanic matter, nature, and diagnostic imaging melded together, creating this almost pixelated, technological material language, the works question what these juxtaposing forms could mean in conversation with each other.
Sof caught up with Zac about the show at Lett Thomas and his wider practice. They also touched briefly on his project currently showing at the Domain Wintergardens titled Memory Garden (The Kiss).
This week we heard from Jeremy Cosmo Potts, about his first ever solo art show, which is a sort of hilarious/slightly hideous selection paintings and drawings, full of frogs, crab claws, watering cans, sex and debauchery. Then we talked to Sarah Mohawk about her show at Window Gallery, called Electronic Super Highway. Its stems from a paper titled ‘Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?’ and explores the ethics involved when a self driving car is about to hit a group of people. Finally we hear from Dan Sanders about his contribution to the show titled "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, because I don’t hate you; I love you…", which is associated with the Auckland Pride Festival.
Ayesha Green's solo show "The Spirit of the Thing Given (Māori)" is on now at RM Gallery. She also has a show at Papakura Art Gallery opening on Saturday, and work in Artspace. We had a hearty chat about the context from which her paintings and ceramics spring - a Māori history of tourism in New Zealand, the relationship between the earth and the crown, the likes of Sherpa Tenzing's role in our national consciousness.
We also recognise the significant role the Vito Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017)
played in the world of performance and installation art, and architecture. Theo gives us a bit of a run down and we hear some clips from his work.
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