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Ahead of Darryn George's exhibition of new works opening at McLeavey Gallery on Wednesday 21 August Olivia McLeavey and Darryn caught up and spoke about what he's been working on,…

Hendrix Hennessy-Ropiha (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa) is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington-based artist working with photography.

  McLeavey Gallery is hosting screenings of Johanna Mechen's short film, Last Skye Boat Song.

In early April 2024 Robin White travelled from her home in Masterston to Aomori in Japan where she is taking part in an artist-in-residence (AIR) program at the Amori Contemporary Art Centre…

We are thrilled to share the news that Brides, an exhibition of new works by Yvonne Todd, curated by Dr.

Congratulations to Areez Katki whose series of work The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House is being exhibited in Venice as part of Beyond Boundaries, the 2024 Personal Structures…

Milli Jannides graduated with a conjoint Bachelors degree in Fine Art and Literature from Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland in 2009.

McLeavey is delighted to be returning to the Aotearoa Art Fair in 2024, which will take place in Auckland, at the Viaduct Event Centre, 18 - 21 April.

On Thursday 15 February Bill Hammond's family, friends and the Lyttelton community gathered at the Lyttelton Arts Factory (LAF) to celebrate the unveiling of Lyttelton's latest homage to Bill Hammond.

We are excited to announce a very special tribute to the longtime gallery artist, the late Bill Hammond.

Areez Katki is curated into an exhibition exploring the future of craft. 

Christchurch Art Gallery announces significant solo  exhibition of new and existing work by ceramicist Cheryl Lucas.

Areez Katki exhibits in Vancouver for Queer Arts Festival 2022.

A major survey exhibition of more than 70 works from across Dame Robin White’s career opens at Te Papa. 

Ahead of her retrospective exhibition opening at Te Papa, Robin White shares the music that has shaped her life and work. 

Divyaa Kumar reviews There Is No Other Home But This featuring work by Areez Katki at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery.

Major new publication surveying Robin White's career published by Te Papa Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Ahead of the publication of Robin White: Something is Happening Here, Robin White speaks to John Campbell live from her studio in Masterton.

Areez Katki speak to Kim Hill on RNZ about family, history, textiles and recent exhibitions at McLeavey Gallery, Te Tuhi and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

An exhibition of Robin White prints from the Tauranga Art Gallery Collection.

There Is No Other Home But This surveys the practices of two artists, Areez Katki and Khadim Ali, whose work is a space to celebrate and explore contemporary life as…

Zahra Killeen-Chance and Solomon Mortimer are awarded the top prize in the Aotearoa Photobook Award 2022 for A Room in Whanganui. 

Areez Katki’s Fruit Cubab proposes an exploration of Parsi identity through layers of visibility and invisibility – themes that have long been at the crux of the wider migrant experience.

New York-based writer Clare Gemima visited the New Museum Triennial to consider the work of Aotearoa-based artist Christina Pataialii.

The eminent photographer on segueing between "suburban mum cosplay" and Victorian-era gowns.

Christina Pataialii is curated into the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.

Brian P. Kelly features Christina Pataialii in his Wall Street review of the New Museum's 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone.

Choreographic artist Zahra Killeen-Chance revisits a solo performance at the Sarjeant Gallery. 

Robin White is commissioned to respond to the work of Henri Matisse in the Pacific by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the exhibition Matisse Alive. 

Christina Pataialii is exhibiting at the New Museum in New York City as part of the Museum's fifth triennial Soft Water Hard Stone.

Lucinda Bennett reviews Christina Pataialii's monumental installation Proximity and Distance at the Tauranga Art Gallery for Art Forum magazine.

Titled Rogue Wave, Yvonne Todd discussed the role her insistent imagination plays in creating photographs, along with other insights into her distinctive practice.

Yvonne Todd curated into Choose Happiness exhibition at MAMA Albury. 

Choreographic artist Zahra Killeen-Chance, photographer Solomon Mortimer and their daughter take up residence at Tylee Cottage.

Robin White is one of 16 artists featured in Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging at The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.

For History reserves but a few lines for you, Areez Katki presents a series of textile works which build upon the artist’s ongoing enquiries into craft traditions, sites of queer…

Yvonne Todd exhibits in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens for PHOTO 2021. 

Nigel Malthus interviews Cheryl Lucas in her Lyttleton studio.

Christina Pataialii exhibits at the City Gallery Wellington.

Yvonne Todd receives the Theresa Gattung Award for Female Arts Practitioners. 

“Ceramics is the perfect medium to convey even the most unpalatable truths,” says Lyttelton-based master ceramist and visual artist, Cheryl Lucas, who has been awarded the 2019 Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship.

Lynn Freeman interviews Cheryl Lucas following her receipt of the CNZ Craft/Object fellowship.