The Detainment of Al Weiwei

Posted 6:02am Thursday 5th May 2011

Since April 3, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been detained by the Chinese authorities for “economic crimes”. Given his international fame and robust charisma he seemed inviolable, but perhaps that was the point of detaining him: to stamp out the idea that any individual is greater than Read more...

Sara Aspinall of Company of Strangers

Posted 4:51am Tuesday 26th April 2011

After working alongside NOM*D designer Margarita Robertson for six years, Sara Aspinall formed Company of Strangers in 2008. Company of Strangers’ third collection, Strangelove, which focuses on the notion of obsessive love, was recently shown at the iD Dunedin fashion show. Aspinall has reworked Read more...

April Fools Day:

Posted 5:32am Thursday 14th April 2011

Resident artists, Dowling St project After walking up such an enormous staircase, excited about what lay inside, I found myself leaving filled with disappointment. Gazing across any group show rarely makes me feel as though I have just been defibrillated. However, upon leaving I had barely any Read more...

Art and Fashion

Posted 4:23am Monday 4th April 2011

Historically speaking, art and fashion vastly overlap and often seamlessly influence each other. What initially comes to mind is Manet’s portraits of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, Salvador Dali’s extensive collaborations with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Andy Read more...

Desi Liversage, Bloodlines and Bloodstains

Posted 4:05am Monday 28th March 2011

Dunedin School of Art. (It’s super close to campus. Another reason to procrastinate!) Desi Liversage uses the medium of textiles to express and expose the darker colonial heritage of South Africa during the second Boer war. This installation was inspired by Liversage’s grandmother’s Read more...

Colleen Altagracia

Posted 4:02am Monday 28th March 2011

The emptiness of full pockets, The Blue Oyster, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The sombre white walls of the Blue Oyster further added to Altagracia’s performance of The emptiness of full pockets last Tuesday. Performers stood completely still as persons dressed in contamination suits filled their Read more...

The Branch presents Half

Posted 4:01am Monday 28th March 2011

George Street, Friday, March 18, 2011. Dunedin collective The Branch’s one-night-only exhibition/performance Half was a five-star feast for the senses. The Branch is a collective of eight young artists, musicians and filmmakers and this was their third collaborative project. Upon first entry Read more...

Fringe Festival

Posted 2:49am Monday 21st March 2011

The eleventh annual Dunedin Fringe festival is on this week and I encourage you to go along and see some of the great locally produced events. Pattern and paradox by Dunedin artist Jenny Longstaff is on at the Blueskin gallery in Waitati. If you have a car or want to jump on a bus (don’t Read more...

Phillip James Frost

Posted 2:47am Monday 21st March 2011

Works on paper, A Gallery. The work of elusive Dunedin artist Phillip James Frost is noted as being tactile and messy, yet retaining a sense of delicacy. His practice involves dispersing and recycling fragments of life and imagined worlds, as well as reincorporating motifs featured in previous Read more...

Clare Fleming’s at once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here)

Posted 3:59am Monday 14th March 2011

Blue Oyster art project space from March 8 To encounter Clare Fleming’s At once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am here) is to be immersed in a deeply personal inner landscape. Clare Fleming is an artist based in Dunedin and a Dunedin School of Art BFA graduate. Read more...