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Insights into reintegration and recidivism

Lights up! A musician is playing a guitar. A table centre-stage has a paper sign on top of it reading “Probation Officer”. Pamphlets promoting different social services are scattered on the table where two men are sitting.
2015 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Gabrielle Amodeo

Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Gabrielle Amodeo - Winner of the 2015 Parkin Drawing Prize for her work The Floor We Walk On. Gabrielle’s work, a complete life-sized floor plan of her 94-square-metre bungalow in Grey Lynn, Auckland was chosen as the winner from an impressive 443 entries nationwide and 77...
2021 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Mark Braunias

Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Mark Braunias - Winner of 2021 Parkin for his work In Search of the Saccharine Underground. Marks’s work – a large scale colourful, comic diptych- was chosen as the winner from an impressive 563 entries nationwide and 80 finalists at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts’ Academy...
2020 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Poppy Lekner

Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Poppy’s work 'Forward Slash’ - an A4 piece of paper with thousands of forward-slash characters on it from a typewriter- was chosen as the winner from an impressive 482 entries nationwide and 76 finalists at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts’ Academy Galleries.
Francis Upritchard- Paper, Creature, Stone. Collaborations and Unpredictable Outcomes

Francis Upritchard: Paper, Creature, Stone at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Lead curator, Felcitiy Milburn responds to questions from Warren Feeney about her curation of Francis Upritchard’s Paper, Creature, Stone at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, its origins in her esidency as artist at the...
CoCAToi Moroki- Significant Hurdles and Bold Thinking

When CoCA Toi Moroki reopened post-quake in February 2016 with the group exhibition, Precarious Balance, its recently appointed director, Paula Orrell’s ambitions for one of Aotearoa’s oldest arts institutions acknowledged her commitment to a contemporary exhibition programme that was national and international, and that no longer...
Reigniting Ōtautahi’s Street Art Reputation

How do you gauge the success of a street art festival? This predicament arises in the wake of the inaugural Flare Street Art Festival, which wrapped in mid-March after two weeks of activity. Many of the quantifiable metrics applied to other public events, such as ticket revenue and attendance figures, are harder to apply to a festival...
A Film by Jeremy Leatinu’u at The Physics Room

Opening at the end of April, The Physics Room is screening a commissioned film by Jeremy Leatinu’u, Te Whakawhitinga. The 11 minute story that it encompasses reaches across place and time, in its detail, geographically encompassing Te Tai Tōkerau in the North to Ōtautahi in Te Waipounamu, and across generations,...
Nicola Thorne. Documenting Contemporary New Zealand Women

In Peninsula Women, social documentary photographer, Nicola Thorne shows women living in Banks Peninsula undertaking everyday activities at home and work. Focusing on the historic, cultural and social dynamics of everyday people, these documentary photographs reveal some of the diverse roles that women hold in this unique geographic...
Ravenscar House Museum

Ravenscar House and Museum opened back in 8 November 2021. I have been twice now. The building and fabulous collection of art, antiques and antiquities were a gift by Jim and Susan Wakefield to the people of Christchurch under the auspices of Canterbury Museum. It’s an unusual thing for Aotearoa. It’s technically a house museum,...
Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture

Catherine McCormack’s Women in the Picture takes art history and uses it as propulsion into wider conversations concerning art, feminism and the culture of looking. Such conversations seem pertinent in a world authorised by sexual disparity, where the active male possesses the power to look, whilst the female, passive and dispossessed of...
Tyne Gordon, Wet Plate

In Patricia Highsmith’s story The Pond, a recently divorced mother tries desperately to pluck her small son from the entangled weeds of the deep, dark pond behind their house, which has lamentably become the boy’s watery grave. This is the muculent mindset one partakes in when viewing this recent important Tyne Gordon exhibition at the...
In Praise of Eion Stevens (1952 – 2021)

Chambers Gallery in Sydenham staged a moving tribute to renowned painter and printmaker Eion Stevens (1952 – 2021) with an exhibition of paintings by the artist in April. Ōtepoti-born Stevens is remembered as an exceptionally kind and giving man, an experimental maker whose paintings were as reflective and genuine as his character. His was a...
Pig face- pink, yellow; the sound of distant waves

The nature of the Olivia Spencer Bower (OSB) Award doesn’t always produce an exhibition of final work, but a record of the time afforded the artist by the residency. That’s not to say an exhibition is an end in itself, although it may be treated so, often it is not. In the case of Melissa Macleod’s Pig Face, Hare’s Tail and the New...
Nigel Buxton- Portraits as Still Life Painting

Nigel Buxton’s arts practice is, on a number of levels, characterised as being centred upon traditions of still life painting, yet Buxton’s exhibitions frequently circle around their subjects, representing their detail - yet their attention as much about the particulars of their subjects as they are with its wider context. In Faces...