Art Writing
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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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