The Burning Hours opening, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2016 ___ I moved back to New Zealand in 2010, the year Kushana Bush showed Pimp Squeaks at Ivan Anthony in Auckland. Who is this artist? I asked. Who made this? I knew I’d seen something rare and I had to know […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
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Art News, Summer 2016 ___ Kushana Bush lives above the town belt and passes Kereru and Tui on her walk into her Dunedin studio. “Its got windows in three directions, a corner building, bathed in light.” In her recent painting Here We Are a boy is held upside down from […]
Art News, Summer 2016 ___ In September 2014, Wendelien Bakker began to dig a hole in her back garden in Grey Lynn. It was warm and all her neighbours had swimming pools. She wanted a swim, so she decided to build a pool. “It’s just something I wanted to do, […]
Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs (Melbourne and Wellington: Monash University Museum of Art and City Gallery Wellington, 2016) ___ In 2003, I was at a party in the East End sitting on a couch next to Francis Upritchard. I was wearing a crop top and Francis was stroking my stomach. “Isn’t […]