Michelle Reid is a Tāmaki based painter, exploring the idea of atmospheres and gardening through a layered material language that incorporates oil paint, pencil, water colour and even the use of a water blaster. Allowing an index of material vocabulary and mark making to arise. Interweaving these explorative methods of mark making with botanical imagery to create a kind of synthesis of material language, that dances between representation and abstraction.
Her current exhibition at Artor Contemporary,A Biome of Hue, continues Reid's exploration of atmospheres. Shifting the gallery space into its own garden-like atmosphere that invites viewers to engage with the work in a slightly different way—installed through the lens of a garden, some paintings hung high, others low to the ground, and one even wrapping around the gallery wall. Inviting viewers to encounter the paintings through this alternative embodied lens.
Maya caught up with Michelle about the show, and overall practice.
The goal is to create a New Zeland attraction with the equivalent magnetism as Big Ben or the Sydney Opera House, albiet a natural one.
The concept of the Eden Project is based off the original popular tourist attraction in Cornwall, England which opened in 2001.
Producer Jack Marshall spoke with an Eden Project trustee, Professor David Simmons, about revitalising Christchurch's red zone with greenery and water.
In the final installment for the year, Oscar has a massive conversation with Paris and Michael from Social Ritual, about how we use space and navigate the concept of community. This is the extended cut (Oh, and it doesn't include the 20 minutes of chatting off air!)
Tei. and Cindy from Garden of Celebration came in this morning to talk about their wicked gig/ exhibition/ zine workshop event happening this weekend on K'rd. With gender parity and a lack of diversity on major festival lineups being a perrenial problem, Garden of Celebration is an awesome grassroots dive into some of the great music and art that is being made in Tāmaki Makaurau right now.
Swedish-Chilean DJ Dinamarca, and co-founder of the Staycore label, is in Aotearoa for the first time to play at Whammy backroom thanks to Community Garden! Rachel spoke to Dinamarca about music, how he got into DJ-ing and the community of artists he works with around the world. Tune in and head along to the gig tonight!
Artist and curator Madeleine Gifford comes into the studio for a kōrero about two beautiful exhibitions on at Corban Estate Arts Centre (opening Friday 4 November). Pop along and see Mā te horo nuku ka tūrangawaewae ai koe, To stand in place of the landscape, a solo exhibition by Perth-based artist Dr Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge; and Her Heirlooms in my Garden, a group exhibition featuring works by Quishile Charan, Cora-Allan, Debbie Harris, Hollie Ryan, Ashleigh Taupaki and Molly Timmins. Whakarongo mai nei to hear all about it!
Oto and Jaycee chatted with Tāmaki Makaurau rapper Wee about his latest single Taman Desa Tebrau and played 2 hours of Hip-Hop and Trap from the Asian diaspora.
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