In Harbouring, Healy and Cordeiro present two linked projects that share commonalities of time, memorialisation, and expanded painting.

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.

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)…

Australian artist duo Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro were artists in residence in with Te Whare Hēra from August 2016 to January 2017.

Matiu/Somes Island is a fascinating place, even more so when one understands the many intricate historical layers that give shape to the island - as it is today. After decades of isolation as a quarantine island, this island of secrets has been returned to the tangata whenua Te Atiawa, and opened to the public as a predator free reserve.

Te Whare Hēra Wellington International Artist Residency presented an exclusive screening of Spectacles without Objects (2016) and A Recess and a Reconstruction (2011) by Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet.

Louise Hervé is one half of the artist duo collaboration - Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet. Both artists were Te Whare Hēra's international artists in residence in 2017.

The Green Vessel, is an ongoing project produced by Etienne de France’s which sets out to tell the story of a scientific team researching large scale water contamination in a remote river, in distant lands.

Courtney Johnston, Director of the Dowse Art Museum, chairs a panel of four local and visiting international artists who share their experiences from international artist residencies.

At this public event artist Etienne de France mixes a traditional academic lecture format with a ‘real’ panel discussion. Biologist Everett Morris joined with Etienne de France, local artists and academics to muse on the analogous relationships between water bacteria and the mechanisms of neo-liberal capitalism.

The Te Whare Hēra Wellington International Artist Residency presents an exclusive screening by two French artists. Their cinematic works involve encounters between sublime terrains and speculative fictions.

In this introductory lecture, French artist in residence Etienne de France’s introduces his creative practice and his plans for his residency in Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington.