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“Mystery as Possibility: Wangechi Mutu’s Bronzes, The Seated” Wangechi Mutu’s seven foot tall seated bronze sculptures, the Seated I-IV, were commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sit in the building’s previously vacant Rodin façade alcoves as part of the NewOnes will Free Us. These sculptures are cosmic, divine, African, and feminine. They riff…
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Studying art history suited me because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature. I’m chronically curious. My undergraduate degrees were concerned with what I felt were fundamentals – political structures, global religions, Aotearoa history, conflict, how people interpret, what stories they express and why, how art and language function in these contexts, and to what end. In…
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In galleries and museums audio descriptions of artworks make art more accessible. They describe the details of an artwork so the work can be imagined accurately. During the pandemic there was a big uptake of audio descriptions and digitising of collections to ensure people still had access to public art collections while isolating. They are…
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Exhibition Catalogue Essay Ashburton Art Gallery, 8 March – 27 April 2025 When she first turned to painting gridded forms Agnes Martin thought of trees. Specifically, she thought of their innocence. This association held throughout her career and was the key inspiration for her 1964 painting The Tree. Shy of being a two metre square,…
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Exhibition Text CoCA Toi Moroki, 20 June – 5 July 2024 Ways of Knowing was a two-part exhibition that I co–curated with my fellow Emerging Curator in the inaugural year of CoCA’s Emerging Curator programme. Part I consisted of paintings, Part II contained objects. The two questions we should ask of any strong landscape are…
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Exhibition Review for The streets are paved with water CoCA Toi Moroni, 12 April – 12 May 2024 Like the magic that happens on rainy city nights, where pavement puddles sparkle with many bright, changeful lights, the combined work of Sam Towse and Olivia Chamberlain glow in CoCA Toi Moroki’s Ō Papa gallery. Appropriately, the…
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Exhibition Text CoCA Toi Moroki, 1 – 18 June 2024 Ways of Knowing was a two-part exhibition that I co–curated with my fellow Emerging Curator in the inaugural year of CoCA’s Emerging Curator programme. Part I consisted of paintings, Part II contained objects. Swaying or dancing outright long strips of layered rice paper hang like…
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Exhibition Review for Distance is a blade Physics Room, 4 April – 19 May 2024 The low ceilings of the Physics Room and its intervening load-bearing pillar contribute to feeling ensconced in a pocket dimension. While I am here in the exhibition Distance is a blade, it seems normal that gilt frames have turned molten…
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Exhibition Review for Kia ora Whaea CoCA Toi Moroki, 10 Feb-17 March 2024 The sky is grey and heavy and it is quiet as the light rain that has been falling pauses as I walk into CoCA Toi Moroki. The weighted softness of the weather carries me down the hall to a similarly grounded space.…
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