French artist Soraya Rhofir’s lecture presentation introduces Aotearoa/New Zealand audiences to her creative practice. Rhofir illustrated her presentation with her artwork and discussed her working processes, her uses of various media and materials, and the concepts central to her practice. She talked about her Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington residency plans, and about turning her attention to the ...
In Harbouring, Healy and Cordeiro present two linked projects that share commonalities of time, memorialisation, and expanded painting. “Daddy Danse Macabre” is a project inspired by the intricately painted skulls of Hallstatt Beinhaus. Claire and Sean’s painted skulls commemorate the dates of new words [walkman, vajazzle, mullet] added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Highlighting the varying time lags between a wo...
Claire and Sean held a D-I-S-C-O in the Te Whare Hēra Gallery - BYO favourite dance tunes - and all of your best moves. Artists in residence Claire Healy and Sean Cordiero held a DISCO in the Te Whare Hēra Gallery. Friends and kids were welcomed to Clyde Quay Wharf on Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington Harbour to bo...
The artists Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy have a thing for classic horror films and uncanny landscapes. So, as part of their residency they hosted a screening of Aotearoa/New Zealand sci-fi thriller The Quiet Earth (1985) featuring Bruno Lawrence as Zac Hobson, a scientist and, man-alone in a deserted post-apocalyptic world. The films central tenets explore freedom and personal limits ...
Te Whare Hēra international artists-in-residence Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro held an evening of beer and hands-on origami at the waterfront studio and gallery space. Audiences were shown how to re-create the origami unicorn featured at the end of Blade Runner. Beer and Origami, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2016. Photograph by Jane Wilcox. Beer and Origami, Te Whare Hēra ...
