Join Beth Torrance-Hetherington and Sofia Roger Williams for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!
Since 2007, Te Tuhi has supported the development of emerging artists in Aotearoa New Zealand with the Iris Fisher Scholarship, in partnership with the Fisher family.
The scholarship is a national award of $5,000 to support an outstanding postgraduate student in their final year of a visual arts/fine arts course of study.
Sofia had a kōrero with this year’s recipient, Nelson-based Kim Ireland, about her work exploring cultural and social mechanisms that form Aotearoa’s history.
FromThePit is Aotearoa’s longest running music photo exhibition, now in its sixth consecutive year. This year has seen a particularly large pool of photographers, having grown over the years.
The exhibition highlights the vibrant essence of New Zealand’s music scene. It will feature images snapped by photographers across the motu over the past year.
Beth had a kōrero with Brad Miller about FromThePit.
Creative New Zealand has launched resources to support arts and creative practitioners make sustainable careers and businesses from their work, and to provide them with the skills and tools to do so.
The resources aim to support practitioners and arts organisations to implement Creative New Zealand’s Remuneration Policy, which sets out principles and practice guidelines aimed at supporting fair remuneration for artists and arts practitioners (from Creative NZ). Introductory workshops will be hosted in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin across May and June, as well as an online one for those who missed out.
Beth had a kōrero with the producer of Creative New Zealand’s Sustainable Careers, Adrianne Roberts, about new resources to support arts and creative practitioners to make sustainable careers.
Beth catches up with Senior Curator of Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Nathan Pōhio, about Taimoana: Coastlines in Art in Aotearoa, a new exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki that explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand in relation to the coast.
And Nicholas catches up with co-curators of Buttercup and Lavender, a new exhibition showing at the Arts House Trust. Inspired by the Pirongia home of artist Peter Shaw, the exhibition plays with themes of hospitality and natural forms.
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On April 20th a new exhibition, Taimoana: Coastlines in Art in Aotearoa, opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. It explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region.
Comprised of works from the Gallery’s extensive New Zealand art collection, Taimoana explores the theme of the coast and its impact on the people of Aotearoa, examining multiple perspectives on New Zealand art.
Beth spoke with Senior Curator of Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Nathan Pōhio, about the exhibition and its themes.
Otherhoodis a book of essays that explores the little talked about experience of being childless, childfree and child-adjacent in Aotearoa. It is composed of essays by contributors across Aotearoa about identity, the oppressiveness of heteronormative values and the experience of otherhood.
Co-edited by authors Lil O’Brien, Alie Benge, and Kathryn Van Beek, Otherhood began as a conversation on Twitter and was released in book form yesterday, May 9th, two years later.
I caught up with Alie about the book, the process of putting it all together and upcoming events surrounding Otherhood.
Grave New World: Writing Dystopia Today is an Auckland Writers Festival event that is happening on Saturday 18th May. Among the speaker is author of Ockham NZ Book Awards longlisted Turncoat Tīhema Baker (Raukawa te Au ki te Tonga, Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira).
From the AWF website: With wars raging, censorship on the rise and all manner of accepted human rights under threat both close to home and across the globe, how do fiction writers approach the dystopian genre when the line between fictional dystopias and our lived reality seems increasingly blurred?
Beth caught up with author and editor Alie Benge about Otherhood, a book of essays that explore the little talked about experience of being childless, childfree and child-adjacent in Aotearoa.
Nicholas spoke to artist Bena Jackson about her exhibition Urban Legend, which opens May 12th.
He also spoke to the Director of Auckland City of Music, Mark Roach about the ‘Auckland City of Music’ series. They also spoke about the events they have planned for New Zealand Music Month.
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