Artist Spotlight: Blaise Clotworthy from NZAF

Artist Spotlight: Blaise Clotworthy from NZAF

Blaise Clotworthy is the Volunteer and Events Officer at the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. We worked with Blaise to bring panels from the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt to the public as part of the Queer Algorithms exhibition.  What is your role at New Zealand AIDS...
Artist Spotlight: Aroha Novak

Artist Spotlight: Aroha Novak

Aroha Novak is an artist based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Her large installation The right to be unequal was commissioned for our exhibition We’re Not Too Big to Care, 2019.  Can you tell us a little bit about your work that has been in Gus Fisher Gallery’s exhibition...
Artist Spotlight: Elke Finkenauer

Artist Spotlight: Elke Finkenauer

Elke Finkenauer is a visual artist based between Auckland and Glasgow. She was the first artist to create a work for our proposal space, The Booth.      Can you tell us a little bit about your work that has been in Gus Fisher Gallery’s exhibition programme? I...
Artist Spotlight: essa may ranapiri

Artist Spotlight: essa may ranapiri

Image: essay may ranapiri, takatāpui poem from ransack and redinblack paintings, 2019. Installation view in Queer Algorithms, exhibition at Gus Fisher Gallery. Photography by Sam Hartnett. essa may ranapiri (Ngāti Wehi Wehi, Ngāti Takatāpui) is a poet based in...
Artist Spotlight: Emily Hartley-Skudder

Artist Spotlight: Emily Hartley-Skudder

Emily Hartley-Skudder, Gentle on Hands and Everything They Wash (detail), 2019. Mixed media, including: PVC foam tiles, acrylic paint on window vinyl, readymade ceramic basins, oil on linen, enamel on pine frames, acrylic tinted soap, digital sublimation print on...