Events
Online Artist Talk Cat Auburn and Christine Borland
We invite you to join us for an online discussion between artists Cat Auburn and Christine Borland facilitated by Sarah McClintock, as they talk about their current exhibition Approaching Home.
Approaching Home
The over-arching project Approaching Home is collaboratively produced by the artists’ relationship as female artist-friends from different generations who are connected across the world by a shared settler colonial history. The exhibition at Aratoi Art Gallery & Museum (Masterton, 10 Aug – 27 Oct 2024) and associated residency with Te Whare Hēra (Wellington), are first steps in developing enduring partnerships with individuals and communities in both Aotearoa and Scotland.
I Will Not Speak Māori - Tame Iti & Delaney Davidson
Many will have seen Tame Iti and Delaney Davidson’s national billboard campaign, proclaiming, “I will not speak Māori”. The refrain featured within this body of work co-opts the written lines Iti was forced to repeat on the blackboard as punishment for speaking te reo Māori at school. In this new iteration, Iti and Davidson repurpose this polemic slogan once again transforming it into a prompt for reflection and dialogue.
Ève Chabanon - Eating Each Other
This exhibition follows a series of performative dinners and is the first of Chabanon’s two solo exhibitions in Wellington. The first part of Eating Each Other introduces her residency project through handmade ceramics and collaborative elements, framed by the futuristic architecture of Ian Athfield.
Latham Zearfoss - ships in the night
ships in the night is an allegorical consideration of how bodies and objects are increasingly choreographed and stymied within our crumbling colonial world order. New sculptural works by American artist Latham Zearfoss formally and conceptually align through the reverent use of low-grade packing material - brown paper, cardboard and tape.
Soraya Rhofir - Rough Rough
Rough Rough, an exhibition of new works by Soraya Rhofir.
Rhofir borrows from Aotearoa/New Zealand’s everyday culture to produce work that she describes as “…an ensemble, a palette constructed as a collage, each piece opens to a dimension of ‘rough’: its vulnerability, its flexibility, its lightness…the pieces are nomadic, openings to another event, a horizon made of fabric, foam and wire”.
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro - Harbouring
In Harbouring, Healy and Cordeiro present two linked projects that share commonalities of time, memorialisation, and expanded painting.