Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Provenance III is a new group exhibition on at Ivan Anthony, the third of its exhibition series. Provenance brings together a collection of artists, emerging, established as well as European Antiquities. Pulling them together in space to create this rich cosmos of dialogue. A unique encounter between works that speak to this lineage of storytelling. 

Maya had a kōrero with two of the artists showing work within Provenance III  Sophie Grieg and Erika Holm. Speaking to them on their respective practices and works within the show. 

Sophie Grieg produces mesmerizing paintings that draw from the medieval, renaissance, illuminated manuscripts, as well as personal family narratives. Creating works enriched with intricate webs of fairy-tale-like fables, encased in these architectural framing devices. Housing these women of Greig’s practice, as well as their stories and lessons that they pass on. 

Erika Holm creates beautiful sculptures that are informed by items of furniture and house hold objects that demand this connection of body, and to an act of ritual. Holm takes these ritualistic objects and embeds their core structure with forms of the body. Re-attaching the body to these points of human connection that are held within the daily rituals of objects.

Tali is a group show exhibiting artists Serene Hodgman, Claudia Jowitt, Sione Monū, Ahilapalapa Rands, and Salome Tanuvasa, currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery. 

Facilitated by Claudia Jowitt, the show sees the artists weaving and plaiting together histories and traditional practices of the South Pacific from a contemporary diasporic lens grounded within their respective whakapapa, transforming the space into one of vibrance and joy through their mixed mediums and approaches. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Claudia Jowitt about the making of the show, and those included. 

Marc Koorey is a Tāmaki based artist working from a practice of Sculpture to produce kinetic works with elements of sound that bring viewers into the curated world of Koorey’s practice.

His current show on at Strawhouse, Music on Hold presents a series of intricate sculptures, a kinetic curtain in a constant loop of unveiling, A bright red fluorescent light that casts the entire hallway in a red tint,  and a hanging metal sculpture that murmurs Koorey’s sound work as you navigate each work. Coming together in a rhythmic dialogue ro invite viewers into a space of encounter.

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

The Balcony is an exhibition by artist Selina Foote that is currently being shown at Two Rooms. The Balcony presents a series of geometric acrylic and graphite works on canvas that emerge from familiar 19th century paintings and their reproductions. 

Through a process of self prescribed rules Foote transforms these reproduction images of 19th century paintings, radically defamiliarizing them and bringing them into a place of full geometric abstraction. Lost within their own technologies of reproduction but also pulling them back into a place of painterly materiality. 

Maya had a chat with Selina about the show and overall practice.