While I really want to draw attention to certain arguments and things I think have a lot of cultural importance in the world, to say something resolute—like, this is this way or that’s that way—I find really hard to do. I don’t interact with the world like that, and I don’t feel like that about things in the world. My craft is exhibition-making. That is really what I do … I really value art, and...
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is not in the business of placing outside bets. Inside Outside Upside Down: Five Contemporary New Zealand Artists—curated by head of contemporary art Natasha Conland,[1] and comprising materials held by the Gallery—is thus a showcase not merely of five contemporary NZ artists, but of five of the most celebrated practitioners to have emerged in recent years.[2] It...