Artspace’s current exhibition, New Perspectives, features the work of more than 20 artists whose work has begun to make ripples in the local scene. Produced in collaboration with Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny, the show encompasses an impressive range of material, including eye-wateringly fine paper-based works by Motoko Kikkawa, visceral poems by Owen Connors (printed intransigently...
Postcards from Papatoetoe A pop-up & pocket exhibition
For this exhibition, The Pantograph Punch asked eight Aotearoa artists to produce a series of posters and postcards responding to the display site, the soon-to-be-renovated mall in the centre of Old Papatoetoe. While they vary widely in appearance, the works share some common themes. A number of them question the ways in which Papatoetoe and its neighbouring suburbs are changing with the spread...
Pacific Real Time Projects 2016
Welcome to Pacific Real Time, the 2016 Auckland Art Fair Projects, curated by Jarrod Rawlins (Curator, MONA, Hobart) and Simon Rees (Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth), with assistance from Francis McWhannell. Working with galleries participating in the Fair, independent artists, and the nonprofit arts agency CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, the curators are...