Mark Amery

Julian Dashper’s work asks all sorts of great questions about art history, the hierarchy of different media and their relation to how we live with art in our daily lives.

TheNewDowse: It’s inspiring to enter an art museum full of adults and children engaging with bright, adventurous art and design that feels very much of its cultural moment. 

2009 was the year we got to see what Wellington looks like without City Gallery, which emphasised the impressive array of visual arts activity happening beyond it.

For over ten years Photospace in Courtenay Place has been providing a home for photographers.

If just as likely to be labeled borderline psychotic as psychic, artists have nevertheless often been seen as able to unlock the doors of perception to the unknown, the unseen and the inexplicable.

This month there’s an impressive array of contemporary Maori art practice on display in the Wellington region.

No matter the advances in digital technology, your travel snaps are always going to disappoint. They require your personal animation to convey the perception of what it was like to experience a strange foreign landscape.

Rohan Wealleans at Hamish McKay: While writers seem to get away with writing one great novel or play in five, we seem to have a terrible propensity to write off a visual artist based on a single encounter.

Time runs through Gray Nicol’s installation at the Film Archive both in the strong meditation the work offers, but also in the life of the artist himself.

South Coast Gallery in Cuba Street provides an inner city base for a gallery that has already gained a solid reputation for its representation of an eclectic range of interesting artists.

The expression to “kick against the pricks”, originates in the bible and can be defined to mean to fight against authority. That’s quite a natural activity of artists, looking to engender debate and breath new air into things.

It’s no wonder that artists are increasingly turning to reuse objects as a basis for art.

Consider if you will the camera as a gate. A gate providing access to other worlds through the walls that bound our current experience of the world.

It doesn’t seem so long ago that video art was treated like the grubby, fuzzy unsaleable black sheep of the fine art family.

TheNewDowse art museum and the funny tensions between private collections and public institutions.

Out of all the Capital’s galleries at the Auckland Art Fair, Newtown-based Suite reflected an increasing international eclecticism.

Emerging artist Lorene Taurerewa comes to attention at a time when art is reveling in its multiplicity.

Sculpture often provides us with conversations between nature and culture.

If ever there was an artist I never expected to find exhibiting in a church it is Terry Urbahn.

We need artists to perplex us with what might seem like mindless acts of violence on what we consider to be art.