It’s that time of year when the humidity is so thick, the air barely moves, yet the artworld is positivity bubbling with creative activity!
My advice? Get amongst it! Here are my suggestions for your Art of March.
Oddity
Synonym of Something
25 March – 16 April
216 Dominion Road, Mt Eden
Artist(s) exhibiting: Tai Nimo, Via Tuimaseve, Te Ara Minhinnick, Hugo Primbs, Jeremiah Talo (Gerry), Keaton Hamilton, Elise Sadlier, Jessica Kanji and Llenyd Price.
Curated by Jasmine Tuiā and Ashleigh Taupaki (founders of Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Cross-Crits) Synonyms of something, emerges from multiple group discussions around artists’ presence/influence in each other’s artworks and thinking; creating art, making friends, sharing food and feedback.
The exhibition features nine artists from different institutions throughout Tāmaki Makaurau.
Object Space
Mark Work
5 March – 15 May
13 Rose Road, Ponsonby
Artist(s) exhibiting: Raukura Turei, Julian Hooper, Krystina Kaza, Areta Wilkinson, Warwick Freeman and Hannah Beehre.
An age-old and enduring form of human expression, to make marks is to set in motion a creative process. Open-ended in its nature, mark-making is generative, a physical act that creates space for thinking and exploration. Spanning the fields of contemporary jewellery, architecture, design and painting, Mark Work features six artists whose work communicates across form and discipline, inextricably linked to time spent in the studio and the strong bond formed with materials and making processes.
Studio One
Toi Ta
Creative Studio Residents Exhibition
3 March – 31 March
1 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
Studio One Toi Tū proudly present projects by the artists from the 2021 Creative Studio Residency. Studio visits are a great way to connect directly with artists and learn about their practice. Now in its sixth year, the three resident artists explore a diverse range of creative practices including design, typography, sculpture and weaving.
Te Tuhi has three exhibitions throughout Auckland this month, all of which are presented in association with Auckland Arts Festival Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Makaurau. From Te Tuhi HQ in Pakuranga to the Silos downtown, below is a summary of each.
Ata Koia!
27 Feb – 8 May
Te Tuhi Gallery, 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga
Artist(s) exhibiting: Abigail Aroha Jensen, Brook Konia, Cathy Livermore, Josephine Jelicich, Qianhe ‘AL’ Lin, Qianye Lin, Rachel Shearer, Tira Walsh, Ufuoma Essi and Wukun Wanambi.
Curated by James Tapsell-Kururangi, Ata koia! is based on a kīwaha (an expression) inspiring an ambience of wonder and surprise. What does it feel like to be alive today? Calling together artists from Aotearoa and abroad to share knowledge, conversation and time, Ata koia! presents newly commissioned and existing artworks woven from the wind and stars, colours that slip from the horizon and images that saturate our imagination.
Te Po
3 March – 26 March
Papatunga, 25 Cheshire Street
Parnell Station
Artist(s) exhibiting: Abigail Aroha Jensen, Gabi Lardies, Katie Middleton, Tira Walsh, Tom Tuke and Wai Ching Chan.
Curated by James Tapsell-Kururangi, the artworks in Te Pō emerged from a six-month period of reflection, learning, and whānautanga (kinship), during which the artists learnt about the local Māori histories of Parnell, took a trip to Rotorua, and participated in various workshops to reflect on the meaning of making art today.
Wild Once More
2 March – 26 March
Silo 6, Silo Park,
Corne Beaumont & Jellicoe Streets, Wynyard Quarter
Artist(s) exhibiting: Neihana Gordon-Stables, Daniel John Corbett Sanders, Aliyah Winter, Connor Fitzgerald, Sorawit Songsataya and Laura Duffy.
Curated by Christopher Ulutupu, Wild Once More is a moving-image exhibition featuring a group of queer artists working in Aotearoa right now.
Foenander Galleries
The Work Of Andrea Bolima
9 March – 29 March
455 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden
Artist: Andrea Bolima
Bolima’s paintings sit in an ambiguous zone between abstraction and sensation.
Inspired from memory and the natural world, Bolima paints ambiguous organic forms, using colour and texture to evoke unspecific places and moments, both private and universal.
Two Rooms Gallery
Robin White – The Perfect Silence Of The Hour
11 March – 14 April
16 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn
tworooms.co.nz
Masterworks Gallery
Layla Walter – Forms Within
26 March – 14 April
71 Upper Queen Street, Newton
masterworksgallery.co.nz
Ivan Anthony Gallery
Liz Maw & Rea Burton – New Work
Until 22 March
564 Great North Road, Grey Lynn
ivananthony.com
