Etienne de France, The Green Vessel. Digital video still, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.

Mark Amery

Mark Amery - Escaping the Box

Mark Amery surveys the inventive approaches to moving image that a fresh array of artists are bringing.


In 2001, when City Gallery Wellington held its first survey of contemporary New Zealand art Prospect: New Zealand Art Now (a programme that has quietly disappeared into the global haze), three of the 35 artists presented moving image work. 15 years on and things have changed dramatically. Moving image is now the dominant media in our public galleries…

Read Mark Amery’s essay on The Big Idea