The legendary Troy Kingi phones in for a chat about his AMA nominations, before the ceremony on Thursday night! Troy is nominated for three awards; Album of The Year for Leatherman and The Mojave Green, Single of The Year for Silcone Booby Trap, and Best Rock Artist. Troy also let's us in on a sneak peak of what's on the horizon, for the next chapters of his 10:10:10 series! Tune into Friday Drive with Milly and Tuva'a this week, as they share their coverage of the night.
Differences in kind and rhythm is the second in a series of dialogue exhibitions made at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery since 2024, for which artists from Aotearoa are paired with international artists.
Curated by James Gatt, this exhibition pairs the work of senior multidisciplinary artist Peter Robinson and Italian painter Giorgio Griffa, eliciting a considered and cross-cultural conversation between the works and their respective practices.
Together, the paintings by Griffa and sculptural forms by Robinson have shared qualities of repeated forms and movements that respond to related concepts of repetition and difference, emergence and continuum. Common threads can be seen within the works through the complex, lyrical, the sharp and soft, illustrating subtle distinctions between similar forms and difference in expression.
Sofia had a kōrero with Peter Robinson about the making of Differences in kind and rhythm.
Throw is an exhibition of new paintings by Philip Kelly at Charles Ninow Gallery.
Showing a continuation of Kelly’s long-time ‘turntable’ painting series, this new body of work shows a shift in Kelly’s process by replacing the record player as a mode of making with the electric potter’s wheel. These abstract images are bright explorations of form and colour through a process of applying, removing, and manipulating paint on a rotating surface to form works that are almost rhythmic and musical in nature, speaking to the exploration of the interrelationship between music and art, which drives much of Kelly’s artistic practice.
Sof had a kōrero with Philip Kelly about the show and these themes.
How to Disappear is an exhibition by multidisciplinary Ōtautahi-based artist Steve Carr currently on at Gow Langsford Gallery.
In a body of work composed of photographs, a moving image work, and sculpture, Carr stages a series of failed attempts at disappearance – reminding us that no matter how much we try to hide, something in us always remains visible.
Seen crouched and stood behind invisibility shields, bushes, trees, and coloured smoke bombs, Carr repeatedly fails to camouflage himself – giving the works a certain absurdity and comedic quality that has been a recurring theme in Carr’s practice.
Sofia caught up with Steve Carr about the making of How to Disappear and his creative process.
Cat Fooks is a Tāmaki based, material led painter who immerses herself within the world of her studio. In which Cat no longer views it as just a physical space but rather its own dimension built up of paint and clutter that is crucial to the making of the works.
Her current exhibition Didymus Mountain presents a series of vibrant and playful paintings. Little worlds of abstract colour and texture that seem to rebel against the typical convention of the frame. Engulfing the frame itself in a multitude of rich layers of paint, rejecting this ‘framing’ and instead bringing it into the world of the painting itself. Eliminating this space between the painting and the space of the world.
Maya had a chat with Cat about her overall practice and the show.
The Balcony is an exhibition by artist Selina Foote that is currently being shown at Two Rooms. The Balcony presents a series of geometric acrylic and graphite works on canvas that emerge from familiar 19th century paintings and their reproductions.
Through a process of self prescribed rules Foote transforms these reproduction images of 19th century paintings, radically defamiliarizing them and bringing them into a place of full geometric abstraction. Lost within their own technologies of reproduction but also pulling them back into a place of painterly materiality.
Maya had a chat with Selina about the show and overall practice.
Marc Koorey is a Tāmaki based artist working from a practice of Sculpture to produce kinetic works with elements of sound that bring viewers into the curated world of Koorey’s practice.
His current show on at Strawhouse, Music on Hold presents a series of intricate sculptures, a kinetic curtain in a constant loop of unveiling, A bright red fluorescent light that casts the entire hallway in a red tint, and a hanging metal sculpture that murmurs Koorey’s sound work as you navigate each work. Coming together in a rhythmic dialogue ro invite viewers into a space of encounter.
Maya had a kōrero with Marc about the show and overall practice.
The Future is an exhibition presenting new and recent work by Berlin-based artist Simon Denny, currently on at Michael Lett Gallery.
In channelling the spirit of aeropainting and Italian Futurism, Denny employs contemporary methods of making with today’s technology to create two new series of paintings whereby both mechanical and painterly qualities transpire, aiding in a recontextualisation of 20th-century modernism.
Sofia had a kōrero with Simon Denny about the show and his overall practice.
Elle spoke to Amélie, Elisa and Maxence of Lyon-based electronic trio eat-girls about their latest single Off The. An expansion of their sound on their more experimental debut album Area Silenzio, which was crafted through a series of live performances. The single continues the band’s penchant for strong bass lines and synth-laden harmonies. A fun-fact, they add to the Sof and Elle list of dog songs with Canine.
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