Issue °206, Winter 2025, out now

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From What We Have
JASMINE TOGO-BRISBY in conversation with IOANA GORDON-SMITH

Kia Whitingia E Te Rā, Kia Puhipuhia E Te Tau / Let the Sun Illuminate and the Wind Blow
HANA PERA AOAKE on MARK ADAMS as manuhiri

Generation Kōhanga
TE ARA MINHINNICK, ATARETA BLACK, and MAIA WHAREWERA-BALLARD in conversation

 
Plus a conversation with Jody Rallah, The Questionnaire: with Sophie Davis; and reviews on Gregor Kregar, Julia Holderness, Inga Fillary, Jae Hoon Lee, Georgie Johnson, Peata Larkin/Robbie Fraser, Hannah Whiting, Maania Tealei

Latest news

Artspace Aotearoa hosts Martha Atienza and Yee I-Lann

Join the artists in conversation with Kairauhī Curator Robbie Hancock on Wednesday 30 July at 6pm.

Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau

This July, Arts Makers Aotearoa (AMA) will be launching a new service, the Artist Advice Bureau. Here, we speak to Art Aunty Claudia Jowitt, who will be hosting drop-in (or Zoom-in) sessions at Samoa House Library on Karangahape Road, offering independent advice and advocacy for artists trying to navigate the industry.

Viaduct Harbour unveils Maruata Rikoriko for Matariki

The artwork, by Graham Tipene and Amy Hawke, is on view 17 June through 13 July at Viaduct Harbour.

Yellow Post Unveiled at Brick Bay

The sculpture was designed and constructed by emerging architects George Culling, Oliver Prisk, Henry Mabin and André Vachias.

2025 Fale-Ship Residency recipients announced

Recipients Quishile Charan, Harry Freeth and p.Walters will exhibiting at Tautai later this year.

He Riri Awatea: Filming the New Zealand Wars opens at Canterbury Museum

The new exhibition offers a fresh take on how stories about Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa the New Zealand Wars have been told on film.

Open now: applications for The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

Macmillan Brown Centre Artist in Residence programme open

Call for Proposals: Homestead Galleries at Corban Estate Arts Centre

Open Call for Aotearoa Artists: International Residency with La Trobe Art Institute

Exhibitions on view

  • The tongue to them
26 July – 4 October 2025
  • Li Si Rong
  • Murmuration
25 June – 20 July 2025
  • Whata Kura
13 June – 25 July 2025
  • Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury
  • Life in forms
3 May – 27 July 2025
  • Giorgio Griffa, Peter Robinson
  • Differences in kind and rhythm
8 June – 24 August 2025
  • Vanessa Arthur
  • Wonder Goggles
14 June – 11 October 2025
  • Esther Stone
  • Taonga Tuku Iho
18 – 28 June 2025
  • What thrives on these soils
12 April – 26 July 2025
  • Yasmin Dubrau
  • Tales of a New Moon
14 June – 11 October 2025
  • Master of Visual Arts | Graduating Exhibition I
Saturday 21 June, 10 – 4pm Monday 23 – Tuesday 24 June, 10 – 5pm
  • Iwa
14 June – 12 July 2025
  • Tātai Whetū / Cluster of Stars
19 June – 12 July 2025

Digital stories

Introducing the Artist Advice Bureau

This July, Arts Makers Aotearoa (AMA) will be launching a new service, the Artist Advice Bureau. Here, we speak to Art Aunty Claudia Jowitt, who will be hosting drop-in (or Zoom-in) sessions at Samoa House Library on Karangahape Road, offering independent advice and advocacy for artists trying to navigate the industry.

Interview: Sally Dan-Cuthbert at the Aotearoa Art Fair

Sally Dan-Cuthbert answers our questions ahead of her eponymous gallery's debut at the 2025 Aotearoa Art Fair, presenting works by Sabine Marcelis, Lisa Reihana and Edward Waring.

Meg Gallagher releases Out Of This World

The artist draws upon her long-standing experience with textiles for her most recent series, comprised of nine bespoke abstract paintings.

Interview: Ana Iti, winner of the Walters Prize 2024

Iti's A resilient heart like the mānawa was selected as the winning work by guest judge Professor Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on 27 September 2024.

We interview CNZ’s new senior leaders

Two new senior leaders have joined the team at Creative New Zealand as the agency rolls out its revised funding system. We reached out to Claire Murdoch (Senior Manager, Arts Development) and Kent Gardner (Chair) to speak about the challenges facing the arts sector and their vision for its future.

Colours of Antarctica

Stuart Robertson launches limited-edition pieces to fund critical research for Antarctica New Zealand, in collaboration with Glorious Digital.

Lucy Prebble: The Effect

Auckland Theatre Company stage Prebble's acclaimed play, a modern romance for a medicalised age, 16 April–11 May 2024.

Thousands of Flowers: an interview with Minister Paul Goldsmith

With the end of its first 100 days approaching, the National Party has remained quiet on its plan for the arts. We reached out to new Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Hon Paul Goldsmith, in an attempt to gauge what's in store.

“Whenua keeps telling stories” — in conversation with Raukura Turei

Raukura Turei is an artist and architect based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her practice centres whenua and the countless relationships that are embedded within it. We spoke with her ahead of her presentation at the Melbourne Art Fair.

Reverse Shot: Aotearoa Artists Head to Venice

While the 60th Venice Biennale braces for a controversial change of leadership, eight Aotearoa artists look ahead to their presentations in the Curator's International Exhibition.

The mirror world of Ronnie van Hout

We speak to Ronnie van Hout about doubles, 'bad' dads and his new work at Melbourne Art Fair, where he'll be exhibiting with Darren Knight Gallery.

Matthew Browne’s counter-cacophony

Matthew Browne's abstract paintings seem to hold a moment taut through their careful composition. We spoke to the artist about the pursuit of stillness in a noisy world ahead of his upcoming presentation with Wagner Contemporary at Melbourne Art Fair.

Artist Q+A with Tia Barrett

We speak to Tia Barrett about her installation He Pounamu Ko Aū, currently on view as part of the group exhibition Te Mōteatea a Maumahara at Wairau Māori Art Gallery, 10 August – 24 November 2024.

Artist Q+A with Hōhua Thompson

The Art Paper speaks to Hōhua Thompson about his upcoming exhibition Tuku / Transfer at Trish Clark Gallery, 18 October – 16 November 2024.

Meet Ruth Ige

RUTH IGE is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to her about her oceanic paintings and the politics of Black portraiture.

Meet Jack Hadley

JACK HADLEY is one of twenty-two artists and collectives featured in Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. We spoke to him about figurative sculpture, anthropomorphism and AliExpress.

Issue °200 spotlight

Melbourne Art Fair 2024

The fair runs 22–25 February, and will include a new commission by Julie Rrap.

On Billy Apple’s Art for Sale

Christina Barton reflects on a turning point in the artist’s practice and a milestone in the emergence of a properly contemporary art scene in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Anto Yeldezian: Plastic History

Anto Yeldezian discusses with Faisal Al-Asaad the ways in which his paintings, per Walter Benjamin, contest the West’s hold on the popular imagination and render history ‘plastic.’

On Jacinda Ardern’s kākahu at Buckingham Palace

Eleanor Woodhouse on the rare convergence of national pride and fashion in Adern's 2018 kahu huruhuru moment.

On Fiona Connor’s Can Do Academy

Becky Hemus on the not-so-quiet cacophony of daily pressures in Fiona Connor's 2014 installation at Hopkinson Mossman.

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Reviews and essays

Te Kīra Whakamoe, Kawe Mate

Matariki Williams reviews Whakamoe's artwork in the exhibition Te Matau-a-Māui Contemporary Art: Gwen Malden Trust Commissions at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery Heretaunga Hastings, 27 July – 2 November 2024.

Death is a Boring Scarecrow

Laurie Steer: Meditations

Samuel Te Kani reviews the exhibition, which ran at Tim Melville Gallery, 20 September – 5 October 2024.

Elliot Collins: or never and

Alice Fennessy reviews the exhibition, which ran at peep, 28 September – 17 October 2024.

Henrietta Fisher: Funny how I’m always on the head of a longing arrow

Jena Opie reviews the exhibition, which ran at Enjoy Contemporary Art Gallery, 6 December – 1 February 2025.

A Love Letter

Gina Cole responds to Angela Tiatia's exhibition The Dark Current, on view at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Recent news

Interview: Sally Dan-Cuthbert at the Aotearoa Art Fair

Autumn: Must-See Exhibitions

Art Fair Guide 2025

Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi receives recognition for his contribution to Pacific art and culture

Naoshima Artist in Residence Sarah Hudson at Setouchi Triennale 2025

The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi 2025 Springboard Recipients Announced

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