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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I close my eyes to know it
Ecocritical contemporary art slips into the mists of the atmospheric often. Allusions to environments have to be multi-sensory to evoke the richness of the bubbling quantum foam from which it all springs. The atmospheric… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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Ways of Knowing: Part II
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… Continue Reading
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Art Beat Jun.24
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,… Continue Reading
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Ways of Knowing: Part I
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.… Continue Reading
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Art Beat May.24
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… Continue Reading
