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  • Letter from the editor: Considering natural life cycles of the #

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    I finished installing my work quite quickly for our group exhibition. I went into the other gallery space to see what the rest of my friends/the artists were doing. Louisa Afoa had a film triptych already installed. I sat down to watch it. I didn’t expect to have any strong feelings toward or against the work. It was more or less a way to...

    December 23, 2016
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    Articles, On Culture
  • Morning musings

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    It’s 8.46am on a Wednesday morning and I’m siting inside one of the new cafes that has popped up on Karangahape Road. I’m drinking a flat white because they don’t make mocha’s here. My breakfast is in my bag. I’m balling on a budget. There are two other people that are on their Mac Books. I make person number three. The furniture is that kind...

    December 21, 2016
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  • Fleshbag at Skinroom

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    The essentialists are having a hard time of it these days. It began with Simone de Beauvoir and her assertion that Susan was of the female “persuasion”. Later Foucault did some archaeological digging to expose the fabricated nature of sexuality, and theorists like Judith Butler have carried on the torch to do with gender flexibility.   In art circles the spotlight gaze has been firmly...

    December 2, 2016
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  • Greetings from Canada at RM Gallery

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    The phrase ‘time is of the essence’ is something I have difficulty understanding. I heard it a lot during my time at university. I understood this saying to typify western constructs of time, to signify the idea of time as the byproduct of all things. However, to my brown skin and my cosmic being I understand a different kind of time. The phrase ‘island...

    November 30, 2016
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  • In conversation with Andrew Matautia

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    Andrew Matautia is a Wellington photographer who seeks to capture candid moments through his ethnographic photography practice. Born in Samoa, Andrew’s family migrated to New Zealand in 1988. Recently completing his Masters in Design Innovation at Victoria University School of Design, Andrew spends every moment observing and documenting the world around him. Georgie Johnson: How long have you been practicing photography, and what got you...

    November 23, 2016
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  • Inhabitation at Collective studio

    by _

    Soft surface and depth in Watson’s Inhabitation Large paintings on both paper and canvas consist of smudgy yet subtle build ups of filmy translucent layers. Amanda Watson’s solo exhibition, Inhabitation showed from the 11-13th September in Collective studio and gallery, Hamilton. Using a dry brush to scuffle lightly across the surface of the works, the result is ambient and smokey, with shapes remaining soft...

    November 11, 2016
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  • Today as A Female

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    Over the past ten weeks I have conducted nine hour long interviews. The aim of the interviews has been to open up a conversation about what it is like to identify as a contemporary female today by documenting women in their homes and asking them a series of intimate questions Is there ever a time at home that you feel your gender influences your...

    October 24, 2016
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  • Lonely Island at Te Tuhi

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    I have fond memories of filling up water bottles and stocking up on canned foods, batteries and first aid kits with my family. The ‘end of the world’ paranoia brought my family together and with it revealed the worlds futuristic anxieties. It was the year of the Y2K bug (also known as the Millennium bug). The fear was brought on by the media who...

    October 17, 2016
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  • Crystillizing Universes at Skinroom

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    A load of old bricks at suitably named Brickbat Bay and their historical significance prompted artist Ziggy Lever to think about some of the big questions: Time, memory and metaphysics. T S Eliot was thinking something of the same when he began writing the Four Quartets in 1935. Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained...

    September 30, 2016
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  • In conversation with Georgie Johnson

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    Georgie Johnson is an emerging artist based in Wellington who has just had her first ‘official’ gallery show (as she called it) at Brunswick Street Gallery (BSG) in Melbourne Australia. The other first show-ers I have known have been with a local gallery where they have had the support of their friends and often family to help them navigate, or had at least met...

    September 28, 2016
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Recent Posts

December 23, 2016

Letter from the editor: Considering natural life cycles of the...

December 21, 2016

Morning musings

December 2, 2016

Fleshbag at Skinroom

November 30, 2016

Greetings from Canada at RM Gallery

November 23, 2016

In conversation with Andrew Matautia

November 11, 2016

Inhabitation at Collective studio

October 24, 2016

Today as A Female

October 17, 2016

Lonely Island at Te Tuhi

September 30, 2016

Crystillizing Universes at Skinroom

September 28, 2016

In conversation with Georgie Johnson

Reviews

December 2, 2016

Fleshbag at Skinroom

The essentialists are having a hard time of it these days. It began with Simone de Beauvoir and her...

by _
Comments 0
November 30, 2016

Greetings from Canada at RM Gallery

The phrase ‘time is of the essence’ is something I have difficulty understanding. I heard it a lot during...

by _
Comments 0
November 11, 2016

Inhabitation at Collective studio

Soft surface and depth in Watson’s Inhabitation Large paintings on both paper and canvas consist of smudgy yet subtle...

by _
Comments 0
September 30, 2016

Crystillizing Universes at Skinroom

A load of old bricks at suitably named Brickbat Bay and their historical significance prompted artist Ziggy Lever to...

by _
Comments 0

Articles & Columns

Articles, On Culture

Letter from the editor: Considering natural life cycles of the #

I finished installing my work quite quickly for our group exhibition. I went into the other gallery space to see what the rest of my friends/the artists were doing....

December 23, 2016
Comments 0
On Culture

Morning musings

It’s 8.46am on a Wednesday morning and I’m siting inside one of the new cafes that has popped up on Karangahape Road. I’m drinking a flat white because they don’t...

December 21, 2016
Comment 1
Articles

Today as A Female

Over the past ten weeks I have conducted nine hour long interviews. The aim of the interviews has been to open up a conversation about what it is like...

October 24, 2016
Comments 0

Interviews

November 23, 2016

In conversation with Andrew Matautia

Andrew Matautia is a Wellington photographer who seeks to capture candid moments through his ethnographic photography practice. Born in...

by _
Comments 0
September 28, 2016

In conversation with Georgie Johnson

Georgie Johnson is an emerging artist based in Wellington who has just had her first ‘official’ gallery show (as...

by _
Comments 0
March 18, 2016

WWZD? In Conversation with Zara Stanhope

WW..D? Is an interview segment where we get to know awesome people that are a part of the creative...

by _
Comments 0
March 9, 2016

WWFMD? In Conversation with Fresh Milk

WW..D? Is an interview segment where we get to know awesome people that are a part of the creative...

by _
Comments 0

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