Textile
Writing
A River Runs Through It: Creative Currents Through Aotearoa and Japan with Grace Mirams
By Jennifer Pastore
22.09.2023
This summer Grace Mirams spent six weeks visiting studios and sharing her exhibition I’m at the river, I’ll meet you by the sea at Gallery Crossing in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. After speaking with Mirams in Tokyo and visiting the exhibition, writer Jennifer Pastore considers how Mirams’ practice and interests resonate with a region of Japan steeped in craft and exchange.
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Clay Te Pai, Indigenous Artists Exchange
19 October —
24 October 2023
Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji
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Florence Wild, At Sea
20 October —
22 October 2023
Alta Art Space, Malmö, Sweden
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Maungarongo Te Kawa, Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space
26 October 2023 —
21 January 2024
Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš Sami Centre for Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway
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Reuben Paterson, Nga Meka Tui Kura (Epilogue)
25 August —
30 September 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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Maungarongo Te Kawa, Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space
19 August —
24 September 2023
NITJA Senter for Samtidskunst, Lillestrøm, Norway
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Josephine Cachemaille, Joya: A.i.R residency
01 August —
31 August 2023
Joya: AiR, Vélez Blanco, Spain
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Christoper Duncan, Evangeline Riddiford-Graham and Victoria Wynne-Jones, never together
20 July —
19 August 2023
FUTURES, Melbourne, Australia
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Angela Tiatia, George Nuku, Louisa Humphrey and Yuki Kihara, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania
12 August 2023 —
14 April 2024
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
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Virginia Leonard, Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects
17 September —
22 October 2022
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, USA
Writing
Meandering Gestures, Infiltrating Language
By Imaad Majeed
08.09.2022
Artist, curator and writer Imaad Majeed talks with Aotearoa artist Areez Katki about his participation in Language is Migrant, the latest edition of the international arts festival Colomboscope, in Sri Lanka, and about using embroidery and textiles to explore ideas of displacement, trajectories of violence, and the colonial legacy of his own Parsi heritage.
Writing
A protest and a mourning ritual
By Michelangelo Corsaro
11.05.2021
In their work for the 13th Gwangju Biennale, the Bad Fiji Gyals call attention to the legacy of Girmitiya women, indentured labourers from the Indian subcontinent recruited by British colonial authorities to work on Fiji’s sugarcane plantations. Associate Curator Michelangelo Corsaro writes about the collaborative work of Aotearoa-based artist Quishile Charan and US-based artist Esha Pillay.
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Areez Katki in Colomboscope Interdisciplinary Arts Festival
20 January —
30 January 2022
Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Writing
Resistance through Koloa
By Ysabelle Cheung
06.04.2020
The second publication from our special series focusing on the Asia region, looks to Hong Kong gallery Para Site, and its exhibition Koloa: Women, Art, and Technology. The exhibition centres on koloa, or customary women’s arts in Tonga, and features three artists from New Zealand: Tanya Edwards, Nikau Hindin, and Vaimaila Urale.
Writing
An interview with Francis Upritchard
By Contemporary HUM
22.09.2017
As part of Contemporary HUM’s series of interviews with New Zealand artists exhibiting during the 57th Venice Biennale, we talk to Francis Upritchard about her work in the Biennale.