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Dilana- Contemporary Textiles and Women’s Stories

Dilana’s artist and designer, Sudi Dargipour has recently been working with the paintings and designs of four women artists: Avis Higgs, (1918 – 2016), Daphne Mason (1928 – 2020), Bridget Bidwell and Sarah Anderson. Central to these new works has been the realisation that the subjects of the rugs she has translated into textile...
Radical Botanical- Stoddart Cottage Gallery

In Radical Botanical, plants are active, and sometimes provocative. Not the passive and static subjects of art used solely for their aesthetic qualities or to symbolise human concerns, these representatives of the vegetal world have something to say. At this current point of ecological and existential crises, might we do well to listen.
Indigo- Eight Central Otago Artists at Art on the Quay

Indigo is a colour ‘between blue and violet in the spectrum’ - and also the name of a Central Otago group of artists: Luke Anthony, Shaun Burdon, Judy Cockeram, Rachel Hirabayashi, Megan Hufferdine and Lynne Wilson. Representing the various disciplines of ceramics, painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media, Indigo is...
The Little Street Art Festival

Street art festivals have become increasingly popular across the world and here in Aotearoa (from Bluff to Whanganui), embraced as tools for urban regeneration, activation and transformation. However, the majority of these festivals have largely focused on massive mural works, leading to something of a redefinition of street art and narrowing the..
Fiksate Gallery is hosting Pener as its Artist-in-residence

Polish artist Pener (Bartek Świątecki) will spend July as artist-in-residence at Fiksate Gallery. The Sydenham-based gallery is excited to welcome Pener after a long period of global travel restrictions, their first in-house international presence since Robert Seikon and Anastasia Papaleonida in 2020. Pener arrives in Aotearoa with a significant...
Eastside Gallery Linwood- Open Calls to Local Artists and Communities

In 2022, Eastside Gallery Linwood continues to consolidate and broaden its commitment to emerging local artists through its exhibition and education programme, extending the reach of its annual first-time artists’ exhibition, First Steps with a new ‘follow up’ group show in May, Stride by Stride. First Steps...
Nathaniel Herz-Edinger- The Arts Community Needs to be a United Force

Nathaniel Herz-Edinger is a former field organizer for the Green Party’s 2020 election campaign, and is now the Canterbury community organiser for Aotearoa’s Living Wage Movement, a grassroots organisation built through local relationships and independent of government funding, members include unions, faith groups, and...
Miles Dover- The Painting Takes on a Life of Its Own

Southampton-born Miles Dover immigrated to Aotearoa in 2002 and is a Christchurch-based artist with a background in performance and the martial arts. As a painter, he works with a range of media; acrylic paint, spray paint, charcoal, markers, pastel/crayons, working with brushes, stencils, palette knives and plastic scrapers. He...
NFTs- An Exhibition and Discussion at the Ilam Campus Gallery School of Fine Arts

The huge success of Sotheby’s NFT (non-fungible token) auction, Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale sale in June 2021, has “officially” consolidated non-fungible art within the wider context of the history of art in the Western World. Fundamental to the outcome of Sotheby’s auction was its mainstreaming of NFTs as objects...
More Miles than Money

The Richard McWhannell exhibition More Miles than Money at PG Gallery 192 is an excellent excuse to consider the extraordinary metamorphosis of his paintings over the years. McWhannell has never had the public and institutional acknowledgement he deserves. Born in Akaroa in 1952, he graduated from Canterbury University SFA in 1972 with a Diploma..
A.P.G.A.

When I arrive at the City Art Depot I am greeted enthusiastically by Henry Turner who is wearing a pendulous Steven Park sun hat. He is also adorned in one of the show’s many works: a blackened long sleeved shirt featuring a meticulously stitched heart and lungs, both delicious and repulsive in their abstract detail, protruding...
Paper, Creature, Stone

Francis Upritchard’s newest show, Paper, Creature, Stone at Christchurch Art Gallery, is a clear response to contemporary times, representing strength in numbers and the beauty of collaboration. Based on the story of Sisyphus, the show captures the seemingly never-ending battle the world has faced against the pandemic. But Upritchard’s...
Julia Morison, 3 (.) 6 degrees of separation

“And blood-black nothingness began to spin, a system of cells interlinked within, cells interlinked within cells interlinked, within one stem. And dreadfully distinct, against the dark, a tall white fountain played.” In a show that features both a return to earlier formalist concerns, and a resplendent demolishing of such...
Warp of Vices

Nick Harte conjures a distorted assembly of abstractions with his Warp of Vices. This imagined term of venery offers early inroads to consider cumulative concerns and personal histories of addictions, hurts, and hospitalisations. Fluid horizonal projections and flickers of sensuous polish over score inky viridian depths....
The Home of Women’s Suffrage

I have been very keen to explore Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House since it opened in 2020. Sheppard lived at her Clyde Road property from 1888 – 1902 with her husband Walter and their son, Douglas. From here, she spearheaded the campaign for women’s suffrage, hosted meetings and sent out letters and petitions. Following a...