29 May 2022

Ché Zara Blomfield returns home

From Standing Room Only, 12:45 pm on 29 May 2022
Ché Zara Blomfield

Ché Zara Blomfield Photo: supplied

Rachel Lord Safeworld 2016 installation

Rachel Lord Safeworld 2016 installation Photo: Groupshow

Nina Cristante United 2016 installation

Nina Cristante United 2016 installation Photo: Groupshow

Petra Cortright Green room 2012

Petra Cortright Green room 2012 Photo: © Jennifer Pattison

The Composing Rooms

The Composing Rooms Photo: supplied

In 2010 Kiwi Ché Zara Blomfield was instrumental in setting up a collaborative art space in London called The Composing Rooms.

Artists were welcomed into the space and encouraged to talk to each other - and work together - on arts and writing projects.

Its 10 year lifespan is recorded in a new book Ché's been working on since she returned to Aotearoa in 2020.  It's called The Composing Rooms, 2010-2020.

Ché Zara Blomfield discusses it with Lynn Freeman, and also talks about her podcast of interviews with people responding to the pandemic called Wiser Conversations.