Experience a series of public crit sessions presented as part of the exhibition CRIT: Art Learning Since 1987. Each session features an artist who will present works-in-progress for live critique and discussion.
Audiences are invited to observe and participate as artists, curators, students and visitors come together to discuss ideas, process and artistic development.
The sessions offer an opportunity to gain insight into how artworks evolve through conversation, reflection and feedback, while experiencing critique as an open and collaborative exchange.
This crit will be hosted by Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator Matthew Hanson and Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Taiwhenua Curatorial Intern Emily Lyall.
Sessions:
- Liam Philp: Thursday 23 July, 6pm-7pm
- Nathan Wilson: Thursday 6 August, 6pm-7pm
- Elvis Booth-Claveria: Thursday 20 August, 6pm-7pm
- Keciano: Thursday 3 September, 6pm-7pm
- Millie Dunstall: Thursday 17 September, 6pm-7pm
What to expect:
- This event is free.
- This event is held in the gallery at Artspace Aotearoa.
- This location is accessible.
- Light refreshments will be provided.
Biographies:
Liam Philp was raised in Whakatū Nelson and now lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, where he is completing an MFA at the University of Auckland. His ongoing thesis project explores the legacy of the ‘frontier’ as an agent of history and a subject of historical representation in Aotearoa, examining the settler museum as a cultural artifact. Philp’s photographs document the fantasy that emerges from the gap between the symbolic content of these sites and the historical reality of colonial settlement. Approached as found objects through the logic of ‘objective chance’ and re-encountered in the darkroom, the images exist as manifest symptoms of an unconscious desire vis-à-vis their subject.
Nathan Wilson is a Pākehā artist and writer from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, whose practice explores the relationship between art and ideology. After studying politics and history at the University of Auckland, Wilson gained his second bachelor's degree in Fine Art at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. Wilson’s interest in the visual arts is rooted in its connection to the political and the ideological. His artistic output focuses on speculative or propositional critiques on this connection. Working in installation, sculpture, drawing and performance, Wilson’s research-based methodology influences the medium and form of his work.
Elvis Booth-Claveria is a Pākehā, Chilean artist from Te Papaioea, Manawatū, currently based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Working across performance, video, sculpture and installation. With an autotheoretical and animistic lens, their practice centres land, body, queerness and atmosphere.
Offering a non-hierarchical and intimate negotiation through documented performances in which the environment becomes both stage and collaborator, a site where ideas surface in gestures and sensations rather than in linear or verbal form. Encountering the body without hierarchy, unseating the dominance of the head, brain and mouth over the rest of the system.
Keciano is a Samoan painter and illustrator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He has exhibited at Māngere Arts Centre in 2021 and Fresh Gallery Ōtara in 2022. His exhibition, Artist of the Moana in 2022 at Scott Lawrie Gallery explored contemporary identities of Tagata Pasifika. His latest solo exhibition BLUE, 2024 at Wheke Fortress continued and expanded on these current notions, aiming to address sociological ideas through abstractions of his figurative forms.
Millie Dunstall is an artist from Waihi, based in Tāmaki Makarau Auckland. Her current practice emerges from anthropological observations of her rural hometown, where histories of extraction, tourism, mythology and community remain embedded within the landscape. Her recent works have centred around the Ohinemuri and Waihou rivers, approaching rivers as systems of movement, delivery and intersection. Dunstall's work investigates the instability between lived experience and its representation, drawing on ideas surrounding hyperreality, image distortion and simulation. Dunstall completed a BFA with First Class Honours in 2021, graduating from Massey University Toi Rauwhārangi, Pōneke Wellington.