Latest Ocula Conversation Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .
Latest Ocula Report Armory Week Lowdown: Art Shows to See By Casey Carsel, New York After structural issues forced The Armory Show into last-minute relocation pirouettes last year, the fair returns between 5 and 8 March 2020 with a flourishing programme, complemented by stand-out shows across New York City.
Ocula Insight Ella Kruglyanskaya Steals from Art History, Takes Back Gaze By Tessa Moldan, London For her second solo exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Ella Kruglyanskaya's compositions signal the many possibilities of paint.
Ocula Conversation Fiona Pardington By Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, Auckland Working closely with City Gallery Wellington curator Aaron Lister, the New Zealand photographer Fiona Pardington has developed a retrospective that speaks to the extraordinary breadth of her practice. Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation includes very early family portraits from the 1980s alongside her well-known photographs of objects...
Ocula Conversation Yvonne Todd By Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, Auckland In 2002 young Auckland-based artist Yvonne Todd was surprise winner of the inaugural Walters Prize, New Zealand’s premier contemporary art award. Tempting the ire of conservative critics, prize judge Harald Szeemann made the insightfully deleterious statement that Todd's was ‘the work that irritated me the most.’...
Ocula Conversation Robert Leonard By Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, Wellington Robert Leonard is one of New Zealand’s most well-respected curators of contemporary art. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s he produced a series of significant exhibitions at the country’s leading museums, including the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Auckland Art Gallery. In 2005 Leonard took...
Ocula Conversation Seung Yul Oh By Laura Thomson, Auckland Born in Korea in 1981, Seung Yul Oh moved to New Zealand in 1997 and graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2005. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Korea. In 2013 he was recipient of the SEMA Nanji Residency in Seoul and in 2011 was recipient of the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency, supported by...
