Comfort Zone focuses on the kōtuku and their only nesting grounds in Aotearoa New Zealand to explore the limits of human understanding, and the distances we put between ourselves and other species. Songsataya has woven together footage of nesting kōtuku with images and animations exploring proximities between the human, non-human, and celestial.
Mai i te kei o ngā waka ki te ihu o ngā waka presents three haerenga (meaning journey, trip, parting) exploring contrasting yet interlinked stories of migration. The title this work translates in English to “from the front of the canoes to the back of the canoes”, suggesting multiple viewpoints that comprise a collective journey.
Sensational Colour is a hands-on workshop that explores our relationship to colour and chromatic systems, looking at historical theories and contemporary approaches to negotiating colour in painting. Colour is fundamental to painting. It pushes space and elicits emotion. Colour never sits still, moving according to what is around it, both physical and cultural. Join Evan […]
Join us to celebrate the opening of Evan Woodruffe's new exhibition, No Straight Lines We would love you to join us at 5.30pm on Friday, 28 April, for the opening of our new exhibition.Evan Woodruffe: No Straight LinesThen, on Saturday, 29 April, hear Woodruffe discuss this solo exhibition, a body of work which pursues dialogues between painting and our everyday surroundings, embracing immersive […]
'We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ - Marcus Chown For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist Elizabeth Thomson has been drawn to areas of scientific knowledge such as botany, micro-biology, oceanography and mathematics. With images and concepts from those fields as […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique. Johnson’s hand-produced analogue drawings, textiles and paintings are at the heart of each […]
