Visual Arts
A much needed art writing award
It's been a matter of concern that there are now so few outlets for in-depth writing about the visual arts in New Zealand. It's bad for writers, for the artists and for galleries. Now a new annual… Audio
Camera on Community - Visual Artist Chevron Hassett
Maori are used to having their experience captured by others. Think of the photographs of Ans Westra and Marti Friedlander. But Chevron Hassett is a young Maori artist taking the camera into his own… Audio, Gallery
War and Peace at heart of festival
War and peace is at the heart of a new music and arts festival coming to the North Island. Audio
Art not to be missed
Suite Gallery owner David Alsop takes us through some of the most interesting visual art that is on offer around the country right now. Audio
Harry and Michaela Sangl - The lost Te Kuia Moko
In 1993 Brierley Investments purchased a collection 34 original oil on canvas portraits of kuia with moko, painted by artist Harry Sangl in the early 1970s. They were promised to be returned to Maori… Audio, Gallery
Gregory Burke - Returning to head Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
In April, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki will welcome a new director, returning New Zealander Gregory Burke. Most recently CEO of the Remai Modern gallery in Saskatoon, Canada, Burke has directed… Audio
Euan Macleod - Painter's major exhibition opens at Pataka
The exhibition, Euan Macleod: Painter, has been touring Aotearoa for the past two years and opens at its last stop, Pataka, in Porirua, this weekend. It's the first major touring exhibition of… Audio
Dane Mitchell - Taking Post Hoc to La Biennale di Venezia
Artist Dane Mitchell, who caused an uproar in 2009 by winning the Waikato National Contemporary Art Award for 'Collateral', which consisted of the binned wrapping from other award entries tipped on to… Audio
Patrick Pound - Collection artist
New Zealand born, Melbourne-based, artist and lecturer Dr Patrick Pound has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1980s. He has held more than 50 solo exhibitions and been in… Audio
Anna Cahill -The life and times of Douglas MacDiarmid
Anna Cahill is a Auckland-born writer based in Brisbane. She has just published a biography of one of New Zealand's most well-known expatriate artists, Douglas Kerr MacDiarmid, called Colours of a… Audio
Vincent Ward’s art lights up Nelson
Award-winning filmmaker and artist Vincent Ward, director of films including Vigil (1984) and Map of the Human Heart (1992), received a New Zealand Order of Merit (NZOM) for his services to film in… Audio
Upbeat for Thursday 14 June
Famous cellists announce NZ performance, a renowned artist gets rejected by the Royal Academy Art Show, Orchestra Wellington announces a new board chair, pianist Somi Kim on her guest work with NZTrio…
Emma Jameson - History in watercolours
Emma Jameson is an assistant curator of historic international and New Zealand Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She has curated the exhibition 'First Impressions: 19th-century… Audio
Dr Peter Shand - The Turner Prize and Luke Willis Thompson
This week, local artist Luke Willis Thompson has been named as only the second-ever New Zealander to make the shortlist for the UK's Turner Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards. The… Audio
Gifted Kiwi artist wins major award
Talented sculptor turned potter Andrea du Chatenier has won the Portage Ceramic Award’s Gildagergarrd Residency for her work Untitled (Yellow Stack). Andrea discusses why she’s taken a different… Audio
Kiwi wins major arts award
A New Zealand artist has won the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2017. Upbeat’s Australian correspondent Vincent O’Donnell sits down with Melbourne based Aucklander Daniel von Sturmer, whose work… Audio
The multi-faceted Mardo El-Noor
Artist and designer Mardo El-Noor collaborates just as naturally with music groups like Opshop and the Modern Maori Quartet as he does with cartoonists like Tom Scott. He's made short films and music… Audio
Drawing lines between mathematics and art
Artists find inspiration everywhere. For Kiwi-born, Australia-based artist Peter James Smith another passion – mathematics, influences his art. Peter is in New Zealand for Artweek Auckland next week… Audio
Harmonic People wins Wallace Art Trust Paramount Award
New Zealand-Samoan artist Andy Leleisi'uao’s work Harmonic People has won the 2017 Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award. He wins a six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program… Audio
Visual arts to soak in during spring
David Alsop returns with what’s worth soaking in during spring. He shines the spotlight on current arts policies and what they have meant for the visual arts in the lead up to this week’s election. He… Audio