Art Writing
Translating sensory experiencing and inviting deeper engagement for accessibility and enrichment drive my art writing. Not as colloquial as a student magazine, as reserved as informative didactics, or as dense as academic work, my art writing is an invitation, pitched to be received.
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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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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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Exhibition Text CoCA Toi Moroki, 20 June – 5 July 2024 Ways of Knowing was a two-part exhibition that I co–curated with my fellow Emerging Curator in the inaugural year of CoCA’s Emerging Curator programme. Part I consisted of paintings, Part II contained objects. The two questions we should ask of any strong landscape are…
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Exhibition Review for The streets are paved with water CoCA Toi Moroni, 12 April – 12 May 2024 Like the magic that happens on rainy city nights, where pavement puddles sparkle with many bright, changeful lights, the combined work of Sam Towse and Olivia Chamberlain glow in CoCA Toi Moroki’s Ō Papa gallery. Appropriately, the…
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Exhibition Text CoCA Toi Moroki, 1 – 18 June 2024 Ways of Knowing was a two-part exhibition that I co–curated with my fellow Emerging Curator in the inaugural year of CoCA’s Emerging Curator programme. Part I consisted of paintings, Part II contained objects. Swaying or dancing outright long strips of layered rice paper hang like…
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Exhibition Review for Distance is a blade Physics Room, 4 April – 19 May 2024 The low ceilings of the Physics Room and its intervening load-bearing pillar contribute to feeling ensconced in a pocket dimension. While I am here in the exhibition Distance is a blade, it seems normal that gilt frames have turned molten…
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Exhibition Review for Kia ora Whaea CoCA Toi Moroki, 10 Feb-17 March 2024 The sky is grey and heavy and it is quiet as the light rain that has been falling pauses as I walk into CoCA Toi Moroki. The weighted softness of the weather carries me down the hall to a similarly grounded space.…
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Exhibition Review for I’m so into you Physics Room, 1 February – 28 March 2024 Dance music reels me into the Physics Room’s I’m so into you, where Laila Majid’s sculptural latex headrests greet me, fit to grace the booths of a nightclub or to cradle heads and legs at a gym. Her liquid-surfaced photo…
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Exhibition Review for Ripon Street Collective, Nine Lives Stoddart Cottage, 5 – 28 January 2024 Walking up a mown field that has browned in the sun, the eucalyptus trees with silver leaves invite me up to a peopled Stoddart Cottage. There are children past the fence, adults sheltering under the trees on picnic blankets with…
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