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Wharenui Harikoa w/ Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole: 18th July, 2025

Wharenui Harikoa w/ Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole: 18th July, 2025 Wharenui Harikoa w/ Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole: 18th July, 2025, 37.92 MB
Fri 18 Jul 2025

Wharenui Harikoa is the world’s first crocheted wharenui, currently showing at the Civic until 27 July. 

Created by artists Lissy (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kahu) and Rudi Robinson-Cole (Taranaki, Ngāti Pāoa, Waikato, Ngāti Tahu/Ngāti Whaoa), the Wharenui Harikoa merges traditional Māori practices with modern technology, bringing joy, colour and connection to Aotearoa through its vibrant neon wool and intentionality.

Presented by Auckland Live in collaboration with Lissy and Rudi, the wharenui encapsulates joy and embraces the viewer in a feeling of warmth and aroha. 

The experience of entering the whare invites stillness, dreaming, and reflection, of which is supported by its welcoming visual and audio accessibility. 

Sof had a kōrero with Lissy and Rudi about the making of the Wharenui Harikoa, the reception thus far, and how they hope viewers engage with the work. 

The Archive Room w/ Shannon Conacher: 18th July, 2025.

The Archive Room w/ Shannon Conacher: 18th July, 2025. , 21.26 MB
Fri 18 Jul 2025

Shannon Conacher is a South African, Tāmaki based artist. Working amongst a variety of mediums with a central focus on moving image and video.

Her current exhibition, The Archive Room, showing at RM navigates RM's own archive and archive room. Bringing into focus a space that might be typically overlooked. An archive of ephemera that dates back to the artist-run space’s opening in 1997, with many of the artworks within the archive being largely unknown of its maker.

Within the archive room Conacher approaches the archive as a living, breathing site. Re-positioning the archive into an active site of touch and encounter. Through a process of material dialogue between Conacher and the archived art works. working with a light touch to preserve the works agency, but enough to bring them forth into a space of active dialogue.

Maya had chat with Shannon Conacher about her practice and current show The Archive Room

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 11th July, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 11th July, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 11th July, 2025, 78.94 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

This week on Various Artists!

Sof had a kōrero with historian of sex, gender and health in late-twentieth-century Aotearoa and Australia, Cheryl Ware, about her latest novel, Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008.

Maya had a kōrero with Alex Laurie about his current show Nit, On at Grace.


She also had a chat with Tess Walker Elliot about her show, on Being Imaged, on now at Window gallery

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Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 w/ Cheryl Ware: 11th July, 2025

Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 w/ Cheryl Ware: 11th July, 2025 Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 w/ Cheryl Ware: 11th July, 2025, 25.12 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

Untold Intimacies: a History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 is a new book written by historian of sex, gender, and health, Cheryl Ware, published by Auckland University Press. 

In June 2003, New Zealand became the first country to decriminalise sex work.

Through the lived experiences of 25 individuals, the book is an account of the stories of sex workers in Aotearoa and the industry’s transformation over this critical 30 year period. 

Drawing on new and archival interviews, Ware tells their stories through an in-depth historical investigation from the regulation of brothels with the Massage Parlours Act of 1978, through the struggle for decriminalisation to the legally mandated national review of the law in 2008.

Sofia had a kōrero with author Cheryl Ware about the importance of this body of research, writing the book, and her reflections now.

Nit w/ Alex Laurie: 11July, 2025

Nit w/ Alex Laurie: 11July, 2025 Nit w/ Alex Laurie: 11July, 2025, 17.05 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

Alex Laurie is a Tāmaki Makaurau based artist, working amongst sculpture and installation in response to site specific and architectural contexts.

The title of his current show on at Grace, Nit, is a three letter homonym referring to:

1. The egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect

2. A foolish person

3. A unit of luminance used to measure brightness.

Within Nit laurie resumes  his long standing fascination with vessels. A magical sculptural water vessel awaits viewers as they enter the gallery. Luring them in closer through its hypnotic circular movements of 5 wooden goblets amongst a bath of milky water.

Venturing further into the gallery,  a scullery of translucent spoons and ladles quickly shift into these illusionary ciphers that nod to the form of an egg. Sinking in and out of their surroundings, refracting the light as they fall between.

Maya had a kōrero with Alex Laurie about the show, and overall practice

On Being Imaged w/ Tess Walker Elliot: 11 July, 2025

On Being Imaged w/ Tess Walker Elliot: 11 July, 2025 On Being Imaged w/ Tess Walker Elliot: 11 July, 2025, 27.16 MB
Fri 11 Jul 2025

Tess Walker Elliot is a Tāmaki Makaurau based artist, working amongst analogue photography processes. Her Practice is Centered around engaging with the archive, working across both personal and national archives.

Within Her Current show at Window Gallery, On being Imaged, Walker Elliot draws on her own personal medical archives. Engaging with x-rays and Ultrasounds to examine the depersonalization of the medical image and environment.

Pulling the x-rays back into a place of dark room photography process, using the x-rays as photo negatives that walker elliot then layers with external images of her own body.

Attempting to bring these medical images back into a place of the body, of the personal. Resulting in a series of images that wrestle with the dissolving of the external image into their own abstraction through the internal image 

Maya had a kōrero with Tess walker Elliot about the show and overall practice

The Camellia Society w/ Karin Montgomery: 4th July, 2025

The Camellia Society W/ Karin Montgomery: 4th July, 2025 The Camellia Society W/ Karin Montgomery: 4th July, 2025, 20.23 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Karin Montgomery is a craft-based artist, working from a background in textiles, interior design and her innate passion for ecology.

Montgomery shows an attentiveness to her ecological surroundings, and prides herself as a gardener and an observer with always an interest in making.

As an observer, Montgomery has drawn close attention to the Camellia flower within her current exhibition at Object Space, The Camellia Society. The show presents ten beautifully detailed hand-crafted replica paper Camellias that line the gallery in an ode to a garden.

Paying close attention to a normally overlooked Camellia plant, Karin puts its beauty to the forefront, reminding us of the little nuggets of beauty sitting right in our backyard. Inviting viewers to engage with attentiveness and to become observers of the beauty within our own ecological surroundings.

Maya had a kōrero with Karin about the show and her overall practice.

Murmuration w/ Li Si Rong: 4th July, 2025

Murmuration w/ Li Si Rong: 4th July, 2025 Murmuration w/ Li Si Rong: 4th July, 2025, 15.58 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Murmuration is a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Li Si Rong

Within Murmuration Li Si Rong presents a body of work that hovers between the everyday and an imagined dream-like space, navigating humanity's relationship with the home, and the things inside them.

Her paintings Sing with sweeping colours and dance amongst familiar forms while pulling the viewer into a world of the paintings themselves; that of a feeling of home and into a space of community. 

Mobile like structures hang alongside the paintings, playing a careful balancing act like that of the movements of starlings, Murmuration.  Li Si Rong uses Murmuration as a metaphor for community, shifting the gallery space into a place of murmuration itself, bringing us together into a space of warmth when we need it most.

Maya had a chat with Li Si Rong about Murmuration, as well as her overall practice .

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025

Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025 Various Artists w/ Sofia and Maya: 4th July, 2025, 84.42 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

This week on Various Artists!

Sofia had a kōrero with curator and Director of Public Record Yuka O’Shannessy about Ma 間, an exhibition she curated currently on at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead. 

Maya had a kōrero with artist Li Si Rong about Murmuration, her exhibition currently on at Sanderson Contemporary. 

Sofia also caught up with Peter Robinson about the making of Differences in kind and rhythm, a dialogue exhibition of his work paired with Italian painter Georgio Griffa, on now at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery. 

Lastly, Maya chatted with Karin Montgomery about her exhibition The Camelia Society, currently on at Objectspace.  

Ma 間 w/ Yuka O’Shannessy and Anita Tótha: 4th July, 2025

Ma 間 w/ Yuka O’Shannessy and Anita Tótha: 4th July, 2025 Ma 間 w/ Yuka O’Shannessy and Anita Tótha: 4th July, 2025, 35.54 MB
Fri 4 Jul 2025

Ma 間 is a new exhibition curated by Yuka O’Shannessy on at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead. 

With a background rooted in her upbringing in Japan and exploration of artistic mediums and making, including her pursuit of fashion studies, Yuka has a refined, distinct, and thoughtful aesthetic as the Director of Public Record. 

Ma is often translated to mean ‘gap’, ‘space’, or ‘interval’, referring to a space that creates harmony between elements. Exploring space, connection, and transformation, Ma 間 traverses the Japanese concept with a ‘series of intentional pauses, moments of tension, openness, and calm, that invite reflection and connection within an environment.’ Showcasing the works of 28 artists as sourced from the Arts House Trust’s collection, as well as Public Record’s and other selected artists, this exhibition presents a considered curation, presentation, and appreciation of craftsmanship and refined and unique visual expression. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Yuka O’Shannessy, as well as Director of the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Anita Tote-ah, about the show.