Locust Jones’s new works represent an important development, still committed to grappling with the immediate political and cultural depicted with ntensity and confusion.
Shane Cotton is best known for combining traditional Maori iconography with European symbols, suggestive both of his own bicultural identity and as a way of thinking through questions of colonialism that are at the heart of New Zealand’s identity and culture
The artists in Debil Debil take their cues from the way Tracey Moffatt’s film beDevil conjures imaginative places beyond the bounds of our knowable world.
The variety of sometimes bizarre, beautiful and strange artworks and museum objects in the exhibition were selected for their capacity to engage curiosity, by breaking with habituated patterns of thinking or knowing about something.