spaces
sketches
News from the art front around New Zealand.
awards and residencies
Artists on a winning streak.
postcards
From Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
auction scene
Briar Williams assesses a quietly successful year of art sales.
upcoming
Events and exhibitions to look forward to.
reviews
what’s on
Exhibitions and art events to look forward to around the country and overseas.
opening shots
Around the galleries on opening night.
faces
a longer look
Justin Paton is galvanised by a huge, confrontational, timely painting.
opinion
Charles Darwent looks at Western art museums gone global.
profile
Bronwyn Lloyd comes to grips with the alternative histories and textile responses of Emma Fitts.
profile
Hanahiva Rose looks at the 30-year project of Brett Graham to imagine “what our future might look like if we better understood the past”.
profile
Zina Swanson combines experimental thinking with delicate watercolour. Lucy Jackson speaks to the artist about her recent painting and installation.
in residence
In upstate New York, Natalie Guy works in stained glass, considers modernist architecture and gets to know a new city.
dispatch
Layla Walter reports from two major craft events in the ‘silk road’ heartland of central Asia.
features
An octopus, a wave
Yuki Kihara recently exhibited five gloriously embellished kimono made out of siapo, Sāmoan barkcloth, the first examples of an ambitious five-year project. Lisa Wilkie delves into the cultural meeting points, narrative shapes and material connections of Kihara’s kimono.
Critical mirrors
A new touring exhibition highlights contrasts and fellow feeling in the photographs of Gavin Hipkins and the late Peter Peryer. Andrew Paul Wood explains the weird realism and quality of melancholy that both photographers share.
Architects of community
The ninth International Indigenous Arts Gathering, held late last year in Ngaaruawahia, brought together painters, sculptors, carvers, weavers and other craftspeople from all over the world, to a forum humming with mauri, collaboration and conviviality. Billie Lythberg visited this important Indigenous space and reports back.
Exceptional archivists
UK-based Artangel specialises in commissioning extraordinary art projects in the public sphere, and its co-director James Lingwood was in New Zealand over the summer. Hamish Coney spoke to him about some of the London art institution’s most influential pieces of the past 30 years – and his opinion of Colin McCahon.
This side of the window
Photography about photography? Emil McAvoy examines the work of three artists, brought together in a recent show, who are pushing the current boundaries and capabilities of the medium. Together they reinvent such photographically clichéd subjects as the seascape, the window, the light-filled still life.
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Zina Swanson, Movement of watching, 2019, watercolour, 210 x 148mm. The Dowse Art Museum Collection. Courtesy of the artist