Events

Workshop

Omamori charms for kids

Saturday 30 March, 10.30am

Omamori are Japanese charms that are believed to provide good luck and protection to the wearer. Come along to this whānau-friendly workshop to make your own paper omamori charms and bring luck into your life.

Suitable for all ages with parental supervision. All materials provided. This workshop will be located at Aaiotanga Community Space, 22 Emily Place, Auckland.

Workshop

spontaneous sculpture

Saturday 20 April, 11am

Join us for a contemporary sculpture workshop led by Katrina Beekhuis and Ambrose O’Meagher, who will guide in the creation of temporary sculptures and installations developed through conversation, collaboration, and chance. Through close engagement with the surrounding environment, salvaging materials and re-purposing everyday objects, you’ll be encouraged to employ the power of luck and chance in the art-making process. This workshop embraces the potential of daily moments to expand awareness and spur thought.

This workshop is best suited to ages 16 years and older.

Registrations open early April.

Workshop

Experimental Film photography

Saturday 27 April, 11am

Embrace the element of chance in this film photography workshop with contemporary artist Kate van der Drift. Over this 3-hour workshop, you will learn stylistic and technical skills in 35mm film camera technologies, including exposure, shutter and other key camera functions. Kate will explore how artists employ analogue techniques to inform their practices, encouraging participants to consider the creative potential and magic of working with film by trying experimental technical approaches, working towards unknown outcomes.

This workshop is best suited to photographers with a basic understanding of how to operate a film camera.

Please bring your own analogue camera and a roll of film. Refreshments and kai provided.

Registrations open early April.

Publication launch

un/Luck panel & publication

Saturday 4 May, 2pm

What is luck?

This publication collects a series of responses to this question from a group of artists connected with the Doctoral programmes at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland and The Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki, who together consider luck and its connotations from a wide variety of artistic positions across cultures, geographies, and artistic practices, asking how aspects of chance, unpredictability, agency and control intersect with place, privilege, history and language.

Conceived as a parallel venue to the exhibition, un/luck explores the potential for publishing as a means of exchange. Produced on a risograph, the publication experiments with an iterative approach, unfolding over the duration of the project. First presented at the Kuva Research Days in December 2023, this next edition features contributions from: Roma Anderson, Katrina Beekhuis, Matthew Cowan, Paul Cullen, Miklos Gaál, Matthew Galloway, Ngahuia Harrison, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Sean Kerr, Yukari Kaihori, Louise Menzies, Ilya Orlov, Peter Robinson, Mirimari Väyrynen and Denise Ziegler.

To celebrate the launch, we are hosting a panel discussion to continue these creative dialogues. Panelists to be announced soon.

All are welcome, but registrations are encouraged.

Film screening

Past Lives 

Saturday 11 May, 2pm

Two childhood friends are separated after one’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one week as they confront notions of destiny, love and the choices that make a life.

Join us for a film screening of Celine Song’s 2023 film Past Lives to celebrate the final day of the exhibition.

All are welcome, but registrations are encouraged.

Gus Fisher Gallery
74 Shortland Street
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Central 1010

Tuesday – Friday:
10am – 5pm
Saturdays:
10am – 4pm