Ecocritical
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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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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 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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