Artbank with Theo

Anne Shelton's show Dark Matter is currently on at the Auckland Art Gallery. The show includes a diverse selection of works, in which the artist and the viewer enter into a space for revisiting, and reconsidering. Subject matter includes the dynamic characters of K Rd in the 90's, the abandoned Lake Alice Hospital and the grown trees once given as saplings to medal winners it the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But before this far reaching artistic career, Ann Shelton began working as a photojournalist. We talked to her about the transition into art photography, and her subsequent work.
Charlotte Graham (Ngati Mahuta, Ngati Tamaoho, Ngati Whanaunga, Ngati Paoa) presents her show Waikawa at Corbyn Estate Arts Centre. Included is a film of a fish, made of gelatine and full of rubbish, slowly disintegrating in a pool of sea water. It provides a visual and sonic commentary to the environmental breakdown in the waters of Tikapa/the Firth of Thames. 
Also on the show is a rundown of shows opening in AKL, and plenty of good grooves.

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.

This week we had the painter and drawer Jessica Bailey in the studio, talking about her upcoming show "Duffy's Early Jewels" at Lot 23. Her imagery and titles come from little snippets of childhood memory, of grass clippings, backyard fruit, familiar smells and family.