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Te Papa Wellington

“He Toa Tāera” - Pacific Sisters (Lisa Reihana, Rosanna Raymond, Ani O’Neill, Suzanne Tamaki, Selina Haami, Niwhai Tupaea, Henzart  Henry Ah-Foo Taripo, Feeonaa Wall, and Jaunnie ‘Ilolahia.) 

The celebration of mane wahine indigenous identity is definitely an obvious theme of the exhibition. you can sense the ambition to push the boundries of society and the constucted norms to find and discover new territories to crate art in its various forms; music, performance and fashion.

You can feel the pride the artists had in their work. 

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Te Papa Wellington

“Detour” - Michael Parekowhai 

Absolutely love it. 

So many people don’t want to admit that they simply do not understand or reveal to others their general ignorance when it comes to art. What is the artist trying to convey? What were they exploring when they set our to create? 

Wondering about the gallery was such a joy, I couldn’t stop smiling. Using objects stored in the gallery to create a journey of confusion and I LOVE IT  

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Te Papa Wellington

“I want to go to my bedroom but I can’t be bothered” - Lisa Walker 

Contemporary archeology. Seeing the journey her art has been on is fascinating. She defiantly forces you to rethink the boundaries of jewellery. Ready made and found objects. The relationship between materials are taken apart and reconstructed in unique ways.  

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Christchurch Art Gallery

“Yellow Moon” - He Marama Kowhai

So many weird and interesting displays of art. Not sure if I liked all of them though. The video work of the butter being squished with someone’s hands made me cringe a little but I think that was the point. 

The yellow room you could walk into was fun though. 

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Christchurch Art Gallery

“Your Hotel Brain”  Tony de Loutour 

So much to see at once. Lots of thoughts, where do you focus? is there a choreographed intention to the pieces or is it meant to be all encompassing. His work has never been linear in its development, instead loping and swirling back a forth, picking up old ideas and developing them in new context, reworking recent concepts in the light of earlier enquires. The paintings look like his process of thought as in there isn’t an ideal end game which is reassuring to see in work. 

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Gow Langsford

“Heroes and Hangovers” - Toby Raive

Love the painting technique, very aesthetically pleasing, pushing and scraping the oil paint across surfaces. 

The works sit between representation and abstraction 

The explorations of the paint’s materiality is what really fascinate me. The thickness of the paint the fluidity of it’s movement. I’ve never really seen paint being used in this way. Breaking so far from it’s traditional/ classical use of portraiture yet still staying within the same zone.  

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Only use three. The blue adds an element that I do not want discussed in this space 

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Table Prep

- Plaster and paint the walls

- Plaster and paint the table

- Scrap old paint off windowsill and re-paint

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Prep Work Progress 

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Cleaning the space

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In Paris for FIAC? Stop by Centre Pompidou’s retrospective, Franz West. This extensive presentation is on view through December 10.

The exhibition presents almost two hundred artworks made between 1972 and 2012 and highlights not only the artist’s outstanding capacity for formal invention, but also his irreverent and caustic sensibility. _________ #Repost @centrepompidou, Artwork © Archiv Franz West

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Ai Weiwei 

Vartanian, Hrag. "Picturing Ai Weiwei in Istanbul." Hyperallergic. January 07, 2018. Accessed October 18, 2018. https://hyperallergic.com/420114/ai-weiwei-on-porcelain-sakip-sabanci-museum/.

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Rana Begum, No. 814, (2018), Frieze Sculpture 2018. Photos by Stephen White for Frieze.

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Nils Udo: Root Sculpture (Mexico City, 1995)

Nils was able to dig out the root system of this tree and show a poignant view of something that is normally unaware to the eye.

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Casting but painted ? 

Art space 

Faamele Etuale The Yellow Brick Road Home

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exposing spaces? Rather than materialising them 

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