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!
Just last night at Studio 445 on Karangahape Road, the Without Appeal Collective’s ‘A Garden To Banish Loneliness’ window exhibition had its opening night.
The exhibition will be on until the sixteenth of August, and explore collaborators Will Greeson and Iulia Boscu take on a futuristic sci-fi landscape that reassess the optimism that used to be in futuristic fiction.
Liam had a chat with the duo to learn more about the exhibition and what went into it.
The Ōwairaka Community Club is a non-clinical, creative space and community in Mt Albert for adults with lived experience of mental health issues. Frances caught up with a team from the club to hear about their mahi and some other initiatives going on around the city to support them.
Tauranga artist Tawhai Rickard has won this year’s National Contemporary Art Award for his installation Scenes from a Victorian Restaurant. For Various Artists this week, Frances had the pleasure of speaking with Tawhai about the work, its meaning, and his process in making it.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori, Walks in the City, are eight walks from Art Now NZ, showcasing sixty locations where you can view private and public art, urban and architectural design, and sites of significance. Art Walks also features four Gallery Walks, each mapping out the locations of the galleries in different parts of the city so you can gallery-hop in the city centre.
Art Walks are new to Art Now, so to hear about them, Frances caught up with Art Now director Stephanie Post.
Alice Canton chats to some of the crew from Atamira Dance Company, Gabrielle Thomas, Sean MacDonald and Abbie Rogers, about their show TOMO. Whakarongo mai nei!
CIRCUIT, the platform dedicated to supporting Moving Image Artists, is about to release Otherwise Worlding, a new reader on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.
CIRCUT ask How can animation in contemporary moving image practices be critical of the commercial demand for spectacle and efficiency? How can it serve as a tool for worldbuilding and re-imagining history beyond imperialist, white, cis, male-dominated narratives?
No small questions. To hear about the reader and the opening event Frances caught up with CIRCUIT director Mark Williams on Various Artists.
A radical theatre troupe which emerged out of New Zealand’s counterculture in the early 1970s is the subject of Red Mole: A Romance, a new film by Professor Annie Goldson with strong links to the University of Auckland. It premieres at the 2023 Whānau Mārama International Film Festival (opening 19 July) on 4 and 5 August at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. To hear about the film Frances caught up with Annie on Various Artists this week.
Paekākāriki based illustrator and animator Ned Wenlock is coming out with Tsunami, a 278 page graphic novel published by Earth's End.
This is the first book that Earths End has published since 2019, and goes through the story of Peter, a 12 year old boy in his last six weeks of high school.
Liam hard a chat with hm abut the grapahic novel on the show today. Whakarongo mai nei!
First up we talk with Professor Annie Goldson about her new film premiering in the international film festival “Red Mole”, a story about a radical theatre troupe which emerged out of New Zealand’s counterculture in the early 1970s.
Liam had a chat with Ned Wenlock about his new graphic novel Tsunami, releasing on August 1st.
Frances talks to Mark Williams, Director of CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image about their film screening and publication launch for Otherwise Worlding, a new reader on Artists Animation happening tomorrow evening at Te Uru.
Liam chats to Nathan Pōhio at Toi o Tamaki, the Auckland Art Gallery, about Ever Present, focusing on the art of Australia's First Peoples.
Alice Canton is back for some Stage Direction, chatting to Mark Chayanat-Whittet, the director ofHenchmen, a new comedy drama play that is debuting at Basement on August 8. Whakarongo mai nei!
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