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sketches
News from the art front around New Zealand.
awards and residencies
Artists on a winning streak.
postcards
From Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and London.
auction scene
Briar Williams reports the results from the recent season of sales.
upcoming
Events and exhibitions to look forward to.
reviews
what’s on
Your comprehensive guide to gallery exhibitions and art events.
opening shots
Around the galleries on opening night.
faces
a longer look
Justin Paton experiences an artwork without the filter of pre-emptive hype.
opinion
What we leave behind: Courtney Johnston discusses the art of estate planning.
profile
Caroline McQuarrie invites us to imagine many pasts, says Alice Tappenden.
profile
Elisha Masemann on the ‘preserved glimpses’ of John Pusateri’s prints.
profile
Lily Hacking speaks with Sarah Munro about new directions.
in residence
Mark Surridge spent the winter on Waiheke Island, walking and painting.
dispatch
Brett Graham reports from an indigenous-led forum in Toronto, Canada.
in residence
Jordana Bragg participates in Whakatāne’s new Volcanic Artist Residency.
in residence
Four artists spend time at Karekare on Auckland’s west coast.
features
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Double glazing
Denis O’Connor has noticed a recent trend: fine artists drawing on the modes of studio pottery. He explains how traditional clay techniques and forms reappear – transformed – in the work of such artists as Julia Morison,
Peter Hawkesby, Virginia Leonard, Kate Newby and Isobel Thom.
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Extending our networks
Luminaries of contemporary Chinese art appear in a new exhibition in
Dunedin, thanks to prescient collection, curation and network-building
in Australia and New Zealand. Sian van Dyk explains.
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Each seed announces tomorrow
Events caught up with one-time Italian resident Nansi Thompson as she
visited Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Sicily, where the green spaces, piazzas and palazzos of the city were brimming with art. This year the nomadic biennial explored how we all – migrants and stay-at-homes alike – must coexist in
our planetary garden.
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At Meretoto
With the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s arrival in Aotearoa approaching, issues of how to commemorate such a complicated historic flashpoint arise –
and nowhere more so than at his favourite anchorage, Ship Cove in the Marlborough Sounds. A group of artists visiting the site are up to the challenge, says Sarah McClintock.
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COVER: Virginia Leonard, All I Want is a Face Lift, 2018, clay, lustre, resin and steel, 1003 x 635mm. Commissioned for the courtyard plinth at Objectspace, Auckland; on display until 30 June 2019. Photo: Oliver King, courtesy of the artist and Objectspace.