Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Raisa Mclean is a Melbourne based interdisciplinary Artist navigating her practice through a mode of visual song-making. Mclean produces bodies of work that speak to themes of hauntology, and the ephemerality of memory.

In an attempt to hold and to give form to memory, Mclean explores multiple modes of narrative within her current show Heatwave to welcome viewers into an installation of a fragmented diary. Memories of summers, both past present and future, each haunted by the other. 

Maya had a chat with Raisa about her practice and current show Heatwave on at RM.

Maya had a kōrero with Raisa Mclean about her current show, Heatwave, on at RM Gallery. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Senior Curator International Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Dr Sophie Matthiesson, about the gallery’s latest exhibition - A Century of Modern Art - surveying the visionary painters who transformed Western modern art.

She also had a kōrero with Esther Stone about her show opening at Melanie Roger Gallery next week for Matariki, Taonga Tuku Iho.

Tala o le tau is an exhibition showing new and significant work by Angela Tiatia and Yuki Kihara opening tonight at Gus Fisher Gallery.

The exhibition title, Tala o le tau, meaning ‘stories from the weather’ in Sāmoan, borrows its name from the poetic translation of ‘weather forecasts’ used by Sāmoan weather services. Collectively, the works explore themes of the climate crisis in the Pacific, engaging with indigenous knowledge systems, femininity, and matrilineal histories to navigate into an uncertain future. 

Kihara’s work is a collaborative piece made with women from the Moata’a Aualuma Community, a group of skilled weavers and embroiderers based in the central north coast of Upolu Island, Sāmoa. Together, they have created five vibrantly coloured mats, reflecting a community, collective, and indigenous approach to issues of climate change. 

The exhibition is also showing a moving image work of Tiatia’s, The Dark Current, which is a three-part video acknowledging the past, present and future through a Sāmoan lens, exploring the intersections between colonialism, femininity, and our relationship with the virtual and physical realm. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Angela Tiatia about her work in Tala o le tau and her practice as a whole.

Spoit Objects is Artists Angela Pan’s Current exhibition on now at Grace.

 Angela engages within a multi medium practice, drawing from personal experience to navigate ideas of epistemological slippages, femininity and an investigation into our perception of reality. 

Spoilt objects brings together elements of sculpture, video and sound. Inviting us into a site of mystical encounter in which objects slip into entities surrounded by sounds of orchestral breaths.

Maya had a chat with Angela about the show.