Art New Zealand, #193, Autumn 2025 Edward Hanfling reviews Jenna Packer’s exhibition Toro at Ashburton Art Gallery in October, 2024 Packer imagines a post-capitalist future that is eminently credible, where people subsist in campsites put together with leftovers from the age of consumerism – old cars and plastic tarpaulins for shelter, white plastic chairs, metal drums… View more
ARTIST TALK Join us on Saturday 26 July at 11am to hear Jenna Packer & Vivienne Murchison speak about their individual exhibitions & ideas Jenna Packer – Paper Road Vivienne Murchison – Fluid Dynamics
Join us on Tuesday 24 June at 5:30pm for the Opening night celebrations & on Saturday 28 June at 11am for the Artist Talk Hear Graham Bennett talk about his residency in Okayama, Japan and the themes and creative processes behind PRECIPICE
Multi-disciplinary artist Julia Holden is better known for her live performance art, clay work and animated paintings so when she started painting pets and animals, it wasn’t a turn she saw coming. But after a year of personal grief, it was the one practice that restored her. Julia Holden speaks to Culture 101 at RNZ, listen here. Holden has… View more
Join curator Marian Maguire and contributing artists Bridgit Anderson, Tim J Veling, Marian Maguire, Glenn Busch, Nigel Buxton, Phillip Trusttum, Keinyo White for a discussion about the current exhibition Saturday 7 June, 11am Free entry, all welcome
Grant Banbury reviews Janna van Hasselt & Thomas Hancock’s adjacent exhibitions the latest #194 Winter 2025 issue. A feeling of playfulness emanates from this pairing. Although each artist employs different processes, both share an interest in the malleability and tactile qualities of the materials involved in their practice.
FLUX : Euan Macleod 10 May–13 July, 2025 Eastern Southland Gallery Opening: Sat 10 May, 5.30pm Floortalk: Sun 11 May, 11am All welcome
In this episode, Graeme Douglas (The Good Oil) visits Darryn George at his home and studio in Ōtautahi, listen to the podcast here You’ll hear Darryn speak about reconnecting with Māoridom and marae, developing his language through a combination of American minimalist abstract painters, kowhaiwhai patterns in wharenui and Māori carvers, his willingness to work… View more
Metropol Artscene feature: Two new exhibitions from visionary artists Thomas Hancock and Janna van Hasselt explore form and colour – exclusive to view at this leading Christchurch gallery from 18 March to 12 April. Ōtautahi-based, Janna’s exhibition Flop on Pop at PG gallery192 presents porcelain structures that ooze with tactile exuberance. Woven and flowing ceramic… View more
Join these two artists for a discussion of their similarities and differences in their current exhibitions: Janna van Hasselt – Flop on Pop – new ceramics Thomas Hancock – Mass in Flux – new paintings ARTISTS TALK: Wed 19 March, 12noon Exhibitions on until 11 April