Art Zone Magazine

17/05/2024

Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Rewilding the Garden featuring a new suite of paintings by Molly Timmins (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā).

Timmins is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Her work explores gardens as both an environmental physical place, and as a painted subject throughout art history.

Directly referencing her recent master’s thesis, Timmins’ ‘Rewilding the Garden' critiques European gardening conventions, and through her research she aims to reject the organisation of the ‘gardenesque’ with its order and control.[1]

The artist’s practice takes influence from the artist’s Ngāpuhi and Pākehā whakapapa, presenting a nuanced conversation between the two. Referencing her own heritage alongside considered painting techniques Timmins' navigates the colonial influence over both the garden and painting history, and the way in which women have historically existed in these spaces within Aotearoa in the last century.’
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1. Molly Timmins in Studio, (left Wilding Garden and right Garden Wilding)
2. Wilding Garden, 2023, Oil on canvas, 1900mm x 2900mm
3. Garden Wilding (detail) 2023, Oil on canvas, 1900mm x 2900mm

17/04/2024

The Autumn issue is out!
Jump in for cartoons, costumes, and art overseas.

Featuring , , An-My Lê, , , and more!

30/11/2023

The New Zealand-born, Australian-raised artist Sione Tuívailala Monū is the moment. Creative from a young age Monū relocated to Aotearoa in 2014, “when I got here, I was surrounded by other Pasifika artists and we would make and hang out together, and that’s all I’ve really known.”

Paying homage to established Pasifika and q***r artists who paved the way, “I feel, more than anything, a freedom to experiment and play on traditional art forms.”

Meet Sione at the link below.

Sione Tuívailala Monū has a grid and they know how to use it. They chat to Fairooz Samy about their new exhibit, and the power of Instagram. For the Instagram generation, SioneTuívailala Monū is the moment. The New Zealand-born, Australian-raised artist is effervescent and unbothered. Their work...

30/10/2023

Maia McDonald (Ngāti Mutunga, Te Āti Awa) is on fire.

Combining a 5000 year old pit-firing technique with spray-painting – “a very street style of art making,” shares McDonald.

Imagery by Samuel Hartnett. Words by Sophie Carter.

Maia McDonald’s (Ngāti Mutunga, Te Āti Awa) work is on fire. Literally. All of the works in her most recent solo exhibition have been pit-fired – a process, that involves heating clay ceramics in the ground, dating back over 5,000 years. During the firing process, the areas McDonald has painte...

02/10/2023

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17/08/2023

Jack Trolove is a crepuscular animal of sorts. He invites us to step into the Twilight Zone.

The painter emerges from hibernation. Arthur Hawkes speaks with Jack Trolove about his wilful artistic isolation. Painter Jack Trolove has become a hermit, shutting himself in his Paparoa home studio for up to 14 hours a day, seven days a week for the past four months. Unlike Goya two centuries prio...

10/08/2023

Ben Buchanan encourages viewers to pick their fighter: grapes, orbs, bubbles, polka dots or spheres.

Grapes, portals or polka-dots – choose your own adventure through Ben Buchanan’s hallucinogenic pop. Dan Poynton takes a trip. Walking into Ben’s grungy studio in the retro industrial building he shares with other artists, in Mt Victoria, Wellington, I’m greeted by the scent of paint and cig...

02/08/2023

New Zealand bred and New York based, painter Natasha Wright is focused on form. Primarily female.

[read more below]
https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/painted-ladies

01/03/2023

Catherine Russ’ latest exhibition ‘In The Quiet’ presents spaces photographed in the early hours of the day, just before the world wakes...

For years Catherine Russ has used her photography to show her surroundings in a light that many people don't get to see. Her latest exhibition In The Quiet presents this idea, with spaces photographed in the early hours of the day, just before the world wakes. Catherine started taking photos that sh...

20/12/2022

Meri Kirihimete friends! We're taking a little rest and will be back in 2023, bigger & brighter.

18/12/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Go behind the scenes & choose your own adventure with Ben Buchanan’s hallucinogenic pop. His exhibition Sour Grapes with Martin Basher opens at this week.

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07/12/2022

The Summer issue is here: Featuring Telly Tuita, Ayesha Green, Ben Buchanan, Briana Jamieson, Dane Mitchell, Turumeke Harrington & more.

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15/11/2022

Take a tour of , home to one of New Zealand’s most significant private art collections.

https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/scarborough-fare

26/10/2022

12 years since we first meet , we revisit the clever ceramic artist. Suji discusses her Korean/New Zealand worlds colliding and the benefits of being broken.
https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/mending-the-broken-fragment

12/10/2022

Glen Hayward’s works are often cunningly camouflaged. Visit the subversive world of .g.
https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/here-is-everywhere

06/10/2022

Get hooked on the work of crochet designers , where whakairo meets neon:
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29/09/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Explore the intricately inconsistent work of . Now showing at until November 12.

27/09/2022

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19/09/2022

Marian Maguire likes to keep a low profile. Get to know the brilliant lady behind the lithographs.
https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/lithographic-love

15/09/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Soft sculpture artist .pattle talks combining Shinto concepts & velvet.

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14/09/2022

ONLINE NOW: From Zoroastrian priest to q***r punk, learn why Areez Katki is cut from a different cloth.

https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/man-of-the-cloth

13/09/2022

ONLINE NOW: A conversation with photographers Derek Henderson & Harry Culy on the value of working slowly & focusing on the ignored.

https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/slow-developers

13/09/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Curator Helen Kedgley looks at the exciting rise of three female contemporary artists.

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09/09/2022

The Spring issue is here: Featuring / / .pattle / / / ._._mcintyre / & more.

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11/07/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Meet the New Zealand artist living in New York & represented by an Australian gallery - .

29/06/2022

The winter issue is here: Featuring / .g / / / / & more.

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10/05/2022

NZ Art Show 2022
3 - 5 June at Wellington’s TSB Arena
Thousands of beautiful artworks; will you find yours at Aotearoa’s favourite art event? The showcases 100’s of contemporary NZ artists, cementing its reputation as leader in its field. A curated art experience not to be missed. Buy tickets from artshow.co.nz or at the door.

22/04/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Step inside ’ largest & most ambitious project of his career - .

08/04/2022

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07/04/2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Go behind the scenes with & her hemispheres.
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