Ming Ranginui, 'Till the clock strikes five', 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Amy May Stuart.

Writing

On Measuring Distance: THE FIELD

By Helen Hughes

12.07.2023

Art historian Helen Hughes examines how THE FIELD—featuring work by Ming Ranginui, Shannon Te Ao and Shiraz Sadikeen, and curated by Tamsen Hopkinson at Gertrude Contemporary in Naarm Melbourne—inhabits the spaces between categories and haunts institutional memories through a unique curatorial approach.

Shannon Te Ao, 'what was or could be today (again)', 2019. Still from single channel video with sound. Courtesy of Artist and Mossman Gallery, Wellington.

Calendar

Shannon Te Ao, Mare Amoris | Sea of Love

25 July 2023 —
20 January 2024

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

Antonia Barnett-Mcintosh, 'Water Walk', 2012, North Norway Festival (detail). Courtesy Bundanon Art Gallery.

Calendar

12 Aotearoa artists, The Polyphonic Sea

08 July —
08 October 2023

Bundanon Art Gallery, Shoalhaven, Australia

Shannon Te Ao, Hara, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Calendar

Tamsen Hopkinson, Ming Ranginui, Shiraz Sadikeen, Shannon Te Ao, Octopus 23: THE FIELD

15 April —
11 June 2023

Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

Brian Fuata, Errantucation (mist opportunities), 2021. Photo: Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA.

Writing

Reimagined Futures

By Johanna Bear

23.03.2022

Featuring work from Aotearoa artists Edith Amituanai, Brian Fuata, Christina Pataialii, Shannon Novak and Shannon Te Ao as well as collaborators from Aotearoa in the project Kā Paroro o Haumumu: Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions, this piece from writer and curator Johanna Bear considers the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial’s celebration of Indigenous futures, collaborative and community-based practices, and new ways of understanding the world around us.

Writing

Time and Water

By Maya Wilson-Sanchez

03.09.2020

Presented earlier this year at Oakville Galleries in Canada, Shannon Te Ao's two-channel video and sound installation Ka mua, ka muri recently opened at Remai Modern, Saskatoon. In this part essay, part dialogue, writer Maya Wilson-Sanchez examines Te Ao's new project, and meditates on the relationships between indigenous populations in colonised nations.

Image courtesy of the artist and Robert Heald Gallery

Writing

With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods

By Andrew Clifford

04.12.2017

Andrew Clifford writes on Shannon Te Ao’s installation, With the sun aglow I have my pensive moods, one of four key new commissions for the 2017 Edinburgh Art Festival.