• Birds of Venice

    Birds of Venice

    As an Aotearoa Pavilion Attendant at the 61st Venice Biennale I lived and worked in Venice for five weeks, caretaking Fiona Pardington’s Taharaki Skyside. Creative New Zealand gave me the opportunity to write for the NZ at Venice website blog, reflecting on my experience. 

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  • Attention Studies Issue No.3 – 2

    Attention Studies is a Physics Room initiative where a group of creative practitioners were selected to participate in a collaborative environment to produce a year’s worth of serial publications. Here is my second of two contributions to No.3. I’ve also linked the whole issue below so you can enjoy the variety of skilled writers! May…

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  • Attention Studies Issue No.3 – 1

    Attention Studies is a Physics Room initiative where a group of creative practitioners were selected to participate in a collaborative environment to produce a year’s worth of serial publications. Here is my first of two contributions to No.3. I’ve also linked the whole issue below so you can enjoy the variety of skilled writers! May…

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  • Attention Studies Issue No.2

    Attention Studies is a Physics Room initiative where a group of creative practitioners were selected to participate in a collaborative environment to produce a year’s worth of serial publications. Here is my contribution to No.2. I’ve also linked the whole issue below so you enjoy the variety of skilled writers! April 2026 Ana Iti’s Ngahere…

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  • Attention Studies Issue No.1

    Attention Studies is a Physics Room initiative where a group of creative practitioners were selected to participate in a collaborative environment to produce a year’s worth of serial publications. Here is my contribution to No.1. I’ve also linked the whole issue below so you enjoy the variety of skilled writers! February 2026 In nature, beings…

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  • Article Abstract

    Article Abstract

    “Mystery as Possibility: Wangechi Mutu’s Bronzes, The Seated” Wangechi Mutu’s seven foot tall seated bronze sculptures, the Seated I-IV, were commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sit in the building’s previously vacant Rodin façade alcoves as part of the NewOnes will Free Us. These sculptures are cosmic, divine, African, and feminine. They riff…

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  • Critical Studies Practice Introduction

    Studying art history suited me because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature. I’m chronically curious. My undergraduate degrees were concerned with what I felt were fundamentals – political structures, global religions, Aotearoa history, conflict, how people interpret, what stories they express and why, how art and language function in these contexts, and to what end. In…

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  • Audio Descriptions

    Audio Descriptions

    In galleries and museums audio descriptions of artworks make art more accessible. They describe the details of an artwork so the work can be imagined accurately. During the pandemic there was a big uptake of audio descriptions and digitising of collections to ensure people still had access to public art collections while isolating. They are…

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  • Recloaking – Marie Porter

    Exhibition Catalogue Essay Ashburton Art Gallery, 8 March – 27 April 2025 When she first turned to painting gridded forms Agnes Martin thought of trees. Specifically, she thought of their innocence. This association held throughout her career and was the key inspiration for her 1964 painting The Tree. Shy of being a two metre square,…

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  • aaj kal

    aaj kal

    Exhibition Response CoCA Toi Moroki, November 2024

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