Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Tūī Diprose is a queer Interdisciplinary Artist and body worker of holistic healing. In a coming together of knowledge they engage within an artistic practice that centers in jewelry, installation and writing through an exploration of themes of Place, environmentalism, and decolonization.

Diprose’s current exhibition Rituals, at RM weaves together an array of artistic techniques and materials; Silver, sapphire, bone, harakeke, and clay gather within the show to create a symphony of material dialogue.

The works within the show are created within a space of ritual, between a bridging of the physical and metaphysical words, with the spirit world alive. The rituals of diproses creative practice translates to a show that welcomes audiences into a space of ritual, as well as a welcoming into the act of ritual itself.  

Maya had a chat with Tūī about the show.

She started off by asking Tui to speak to their overall practice, their use of mediums, as well as their key themes.

Alag is artist Tarika Sabherwal’s first solo exhibition at Season Aoteaora. 

The title itself has a double meaning, by which it can be read as either alāg, as in the Hindi word for separate, apart, parted, or different; or a lag, as in a lag in communication or a glitch in some sort of system. 

The images are drawn from Hindi iconography, continuing a theme in Sabherwal’s practice of exploring and reimagining well-known motifs, as seen in paintings of horses and felines, for example. 

The works show a continuation of a side of Sabherwal’s practice which uses an airbrush tool to paint onto raw canvas, creating a dyed effect and bold contrast. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Tarika about her practice and Alag. 

Unerased: Made in Palestine is an exhibition by Pōneke-based artist Emily Hartley-Skudder, illustrator, maker, and activist Pinky Fang, and multi-disciplinary artist Nathan Taare, opening tonight at 250 Ponsonby Road. 

The exhibition began with Pinky’s mother discovering a collection of imported vintage cosmetics at an estate sale in the Hawkes Bay, of which a variety of beauty products - deodorant, hair oil, baby powder, toothpaste, and more - were labelled ‘Made in Palestine’. Notably, the products are all from pre-1948, and a number of the brands are most likely European Zionist manufacturers who had immigrated to Palestine before rebranding their labelling to “Made in Israel” in 1948.

All proceeds from the exhibition go towards Convoys of Good for families in Gaza.

Sofia had a kōrero with Emily Hartley-Skudder about the making of Unerased: Made in Palestine and the exhibition’s kaupapa.

All works are also available online, here. 

A Century of Modern Art is Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s latest exhibition, surveying a century of visionary and influential painters who transformed modern art. 

Exhibiting the likes of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh, and premier examples by pioneering artists of the American and European avant-garde, A Century of Modern Art is an extensive collection of fifty seven works by fifty three artists. 

The exhibition takes the viewer through the evolution of modern art through key defined art movements, beginning with the Impressionists of the 1860s, making its way through movements such as PostImpressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. These works revolutionised Western modern art and continue to inspire those in the present. 

Sofia had a kōrero with co-curator and Senior Curator of International Art, Dr Sophie Mathiesson, about the show and working with the Toledo Museum of Art to bring this collection to Tāmaki Makaurau