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 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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Exhibition Review for My throat/a shelter Physics Room, 27 Oct – 10 Dec 2023 The names of the artists, James Tapsell-Kururangi and Selina Ershadi, and the exhibition, My throat/a shelter, in pale text contrast a dark surrounds, pasted on the doors of the Physics Room. Inside, this illuminates the reversed names and diffuses the afternoon…

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