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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 and Dunedin.
Auction scene
Briar Williams surveys some surprisingly strong recent sales.
Upcoming
Events and exhibitions to look forward to.
Reviews
Opening shots
Around the galleries on opening night.
faces
A longer look
Justin Paton appreciates an intimate handclasp.
In my opinion
Charles Darwent considers the question of ‘great’ women artists.
Profile
Grace Wright does not shy away from invoking in her painting the inconceivable, the transcendental, the spiritual, says Nansi Thompson.
Profile
An introduction to ceramic artist Jaime Jenkins, and the bells, leaves,
stars and shelves of her imagined worlds, by Lucy Jackson.
Profile
Zoe Black traces the conceptual underpinnings and whakapapa of recent work by Kereama Taepa.
Profile
Tira Walsh speaks to Danae Ripley about her high-intensity approach
to painting.
Studio
Lucy Jackson steps carefully into the materials-packed workspace of Isabella Loudon.
features
Complete in things and in the world
Preparing for a summer exhibition in Wellington, Zac Langdon-Pole has been considering systems of classification, ideas of multiplicity, revelations of contradiction. He speaks to Lachlan Taylor about how these pieces of the puzzle fit together.
City touchstones
Private developments can also feature public art. Julian McKinnon visits Commercial Bay in downtown Auckland and examines how its installations, sculptures and wall-works mediate the historic site and the new spaces for those passing through.
Ancient futures
A five-year project delving into 18th- and 19th-century Tongan artefacts and their legacies was enhanced by collaboration among art historians, linguists, anthropologists – and artists. An upcoming exhibition will present the artistic findings of this joint effort, Billie Lythberg explains – showcasing Tongan arts past, present and future.
On not going down the garden path
Mark Amery attends an exhibition of photographs and new performance work by Ann Shelton, putting it into the context of Shelton’s previous explorations and other recent art interested in the relational space between plants and society.
An observer of our time
Over five decades of art-making, Graham Bennett has explored themes of exploration and experimentation, measurement and balance. In deftly made devices, using recurring shapes and symbols, he asks his audience: What is precious, what is valued, what should we save? Sally Blundell reports.
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Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Fetu‘u (Stars), 2019, limited-edition screenprint on paper, 820 x 610mm. Courtesy of the artist