Join artist Yuka Oyama and curator Sian van Dyk for a discussion of Oyama’s project Helpers - Changing Homes Space is limited - please RSVP to Claire Harris. Creating an expansive multimedia project including wearable sculptures, performance, film, and jewellery works, WITH volunteer participants, ALL in three months AND on the other side of the world from home?! As ...
Helpers: Changing Homes is an expansive multimedia project developed through sculpture, performance, film, and jewellery works. During a three month residency at Te Whare Hēra artist Yuka Oyama has sought out project participants whose lives have been shaped by living in multiple countries, interviewing them about the objects they own which maintain a sense of ‘home’. Realising that as a...
Tom Dale is a London-based artist whose grandiose sculptures, videos and installations explore the absurd and preposterous aspects of society. Dale works across a number of disciplines and defines himself simply as an artist who doesn’t paint. His large scale sculptures, digital images and films all play a part in a practice that is as reflective as it is re...
In her work Yuka Oyama explores the relationships people have with objects; for example, how jewellery often provides an intimate link between a human, a physical body, and experiences. Oyama’s sculptural imaginings have been described as “full of strangely mechanical inter-human relations and futuristic human-object rituals”. During her residency in Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington, Oyama is working on a ne...
Artist in residence Soraya Rhofir farewells Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington with a guided walking tour of mystery artworks on Chaffers Street and Cable Street. Engraved glass illustrations of nature’s bounty and a golden semi-aquatic mammal have caught the artist’s imagination during her Te Whare Hēra residency on Clyde Quay Wharf. Anonymous and idiosyncratic these works sit b...
