PAST EVENTS
2025
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Film screening
IN Joy (1980)
with CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image
Saturday 10 May, 2-025
Celebrate the final day of Having it all, all, all with a film screening of Stephanie Beth’s IN JOY (1980), presented in association with CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image. Following the screening, join Beth in conversation with CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams and Gus Fisher Gallery Public Programmes & Engagement Officer Tara Parsons.
IN JOY follows facilitator Maggie Eyre as she leads a group of ten women in a five-day theatre workshop. As the film progresses, we see the workshop participants embrace the opportunity to explore the parameters of their own selves through “movement, fantasy, play and performance.” In the films’ opening Eyre states her aspiration for female empowerment – “I want women to become more autonomous… to take more control of their lives… to know that collective creativity is possible.” Throughout the film Eyre is a vibrant presence, encouraging the women to centre their own sense of self as they undertake a series of movement and voice exercises. In turn, this sometimes leads to emotional experiences for the workshop participants who are supported by their fellow group members.
Stephanie Beth is a film-maker based in Christchurch. In the mid-1970s she was amongst the first generation of fine arts students at Ilam School of Art to study film. Her first two films I want to be Joan (1977) and IN JOY (1980) are described as companion pieces, each seeking to portray the reality and potential of womens lives through a documentary lens.
Performance
Bread
Saturday 10 May, 2025
Drop into Gus Fisher Gallery on the final day of our exhibition Having it all, all, all to see a durational performance by Prairie Hatchard-McGill. In Bread, Hatchard-McGill foregrounds her process-driven creative practice through the union of sculpture and performance. Informed by the feminist artists on display, this performance will explore ephemerality through the creation of sculptures made from food.
Prairie Hatchard-McGill is an artist from Tāmaki Makaurau. She works across sculpture, installation, and performance, with interests in countercultural histories, cooking, and the power of the handmade. Recent exhibitions include Feminine Rubble (2024), play_station, Pōneke, Sunlighting (2023), Artspace Aotearoa, and Signature Print (2022), Neo Gracie. She is currently working towards a Master of Fine Arts at Te Waka Tūhura Elam School of Fine Arts.
Talk
CUT Piece: 60 years on
Saturday 26 April, 2025
2025 marks 60 years since Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece was performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall. To celebrate, join us for a discussion as we explore this seminal work and its enduring legacy.
This panel discussion will be chaired by Caroline Vercoe, Associate Professor of Art History at Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland, who will be joined in conversation with artists Jo Bragg, Alice Canton and Nathan Joe.
Workshop
Shoebox tvs for kids
Saturday 12 April, 2025
Join us for this whānau-friendly craft workshop where we’ll be making shoebox televisions, inspired by the video displays in Having it all, all, all. Let your imagination run wild and create a short story to play on your own DIY television screen.
The Changing Room
Around the dinner table, conversation is lively
with Oscar and Sophie Bannan
Saturday 29 March, 2025
“Our queer joy is domestic joy. Our queerness is a state of radical intimacy with domesticity, communities, space.”
You are kindly invited to a dinner party hosted by sibling-artist duo Oscar and Sophie Bannan. Taking inspiration from their exhibition Chicken Poems, the artists encourage you to join them in celebrating the domestic space through a home-cooked meal. Envisioned as an extension of their collaborative project, this event offers a unique opportunity to gain intimate insight into the lives of the artists, contextualising their relationship as siblings and collaborators.
Tour
International Women’s Day Art Tour
with Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
Saturday 8 March, 2025
Gus Fisher Gallery and Te Uru are excited to present an afternoon of exhibition walkthroughs to highlight the women artists across both galleries in celebration of International Women’s Day. Begin at Gus Fisher Gallery with a guided tour of Having it all, all, all led by Curator of Contemporary Art Lisa Beauchamp. At Te Uru, join exhibiting artist Jelena Telecki for a walkthrough of her solo exhibition Oil and Water, followed by a walkthrough of international group exhibition Photosynthesisers: Women and the lens, which will be led by Curator James Gatt. Finish with refreshments at the opening event for Jelena Telecki Oil and Water.
Workshop
Feminist collage with naomi azoulay
Saturday 1 March, 2025
In this dynamic workshop, participants will engage in an intuitive collage process inspired by Having it all, all, all. Through the mindful selection of images, colours, and textures, we will explore themes of body autonomy, resilience, identity, and reclamation. Embracing spontaneity and experimentation, participants will transform found materials into powerful visual statements.
This workshop is an invitation to challenge dominant narratives, reclaim the female gaze, and craft new forms of visual storytelling. Through layering, deconstruction, and reassembly, participants will create collages that celebrate defiance, self-determination, and feminist resistance—honouring the artists who reshaped the cultural landscape. No prior experience is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to explore, disrupt, and create.
Artist talk
Sophie and Oscar Bannan
Saturday 22 February, 2025
Join siblings Oscar and Sophie Bannan for an artist talk as they discuss Chicken Poems, their new exhibition presented in The Changing Room.
Chicken Poems marks the launch of Gus Fisher Gallery’s new proposal driven space called The Changing Room. Intended as a project space for newly commissioned artwork, The Changing Room enables a dedicated solo space for Aotearoa-based practitioners.
Exhibition opening
Having it all, all, all & Chicken Poems
Friday 21 February, 2025
Join Gus Fisher Gallery as we celebrate the opening of our first new exhibitions of 2025: Having it all, all, all and Chicken Poems.
Having it all, all, all is an exhibition of select video and performance art, bringing together international artists including Ana Mendieta (Cuba/USA), Yoko Ono (Japan/USA), Howardena Pindell (USA), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Nil Yalter (Turkey/France) and more.
Chicken Poems is a new body of collaborative and parallel work by Oscar and Sophie Bannan, exhibiting as part of The Changing Room new commissions programme.
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