by Visual Arts | Apr 10, 2025
PHOTO OP. x Malcolm Smith Gallery presents LONG COVID, an exhibition of solo and collaborative work by Matt Henry and Emil McAvoy. LONG COVID developed out of a period of intense and sustained conversation between the artists which began during the first COVID-19...
by Visual Arts | May 13, 2025
In 2024 artist Samantha Jiayin Ou-Yang visited her father and grandfather’s hometown of Jun’anzhen, Guangdong Province in southern China. During her stay, she took part in the 170-year-old festival 关帝侯王巡游 or ‘The Procession of Emperor Guan Yu’. In the wake...
by Visual Arts | Jan 8, 2025
Framed as a collection of daydreams, Reverie is a window into the mind of East Auckland artist Joseph John Watson. Following his interest in ‘strange art’, his work explores the bizarre, dreamlike and irrational. Peering into Watson’s reality we are enveloped by...
by Visual Arts | Feb 5, 2025
The only contemporary art award in Aotearoa New Zealand with ecology at its core. The Estuary Art and Ecology Awards are Aotearoa’s only annual contemporary art awards with ecology at the core. Artists are invited to research and respond to the Tāmaki Estuary, explore...
by Visual Arts | Jun 12, 2025
Growing up, artist Amina Baker always adored flowers. Spending endless summers in her Mother’s and Grandfather’s gardens, Baker would examine the vibrant colours, sumptuous shapes and textures of every botanical. The artist delighted in the fact that, with their...
