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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
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...
To queer or not to queer?
Samuel Te Kani's recent investigation into the lack of LGBTQI+ visibility in New Zealand's public art galleries featured an analysis of our current exhibition, Queer Algorithms. Read the article here on The Spinoff.
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
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
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...
The Art Newspaper: John Walter’s lockdown Tarot readings
UK based artist John Walter is now offering his highly popular tarot readings via Skype during the lockdown! John is currently exhibiting in our exhibition Queer Algorithms, and recently visited Aotearoa to perform his readings for our visitors. The artist uses a...
Indigenous Woman featured in The New Yorker
Martine Gutierrez's work Indigenous Women takes the form of a glossy magazine, filled with incredible editorials, photo shoots and satirical advertisements all produced by the artist, and is currently on display in our exhibition Queer Algorithms. Read Andrea K....
Queer Algorithms Leaflet
The striking orange leaflet for our current exhibition, Queer Algorithms, is now available online! Click here to download a copy, or view below. Thanks to Gabi Lardies for her excellent design!
Artist Spotlight: Shannon Novak
Auckland-based artist Shannon Novak has a series of works in Queer Algorithms, including a large mural Gender Study I (pictured). Can you tell us a little bit about your work that has been in Gus Fisher Gallery’s exhibition programme? I developed a series of works...
Conversation: Ursula Mayer and Maud Jacquin, October 2015
Austrian born, London based artist Ursula Mayer is currently exhibiting her film Atom Spirit in our exhibition Queer Algorithms. Click here to read an interview between her and Maud Jacquin on LUX in 2016, looking at how her films explore gender, the material world...
Artist Spotlight: Miranda Bellamy
Miranda Bellamy is our current artist in The Booth, a site-specific proposal space which we invite artists to submit work to annually. Miranda recently completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2019, and is now based in Dunedin. Can you tell us a...
Aliyah Winter’s recommendation: “An Affinity of Hammers” by Sara Ahmed
One of our exhibiting artists, Aliyah Winter has recommended Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers" for our Queer Algorithms Reading List. Read the article for free on transreads.org!
Explore Shu Lea Cheang’s Brandon
Gus Fisher Gallery may be closed, but you can still access our web-based artwork Brandon through the web! Click here to visit the site, and click here for our visitor guide to Brandon.
Reading List: Queer Algorithms
Aliyah Winter feeld, Jos Charles Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, Johanna Burton and Reina Gossett An affinity of hammers, Sara Ahmed Bronte Perry Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Jasbir Puar essa may...
95bFM Artbank with John Walter
The Artbank team on 95bFM spoke to artist John Walter about his work in our current exhibition Queer Algorithms. Listen here!
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 83: an Interview With John Walter
CIRCUIT spoke to artist John Walter about his work and participation in our current exhibition Queer Algorithms. Click here to listen!
Artist Spotlight: Aliyah Winter
Wellington-based artist Aliyah Winter is currently exhibiting Speaking Without Words (2019) and artist-made stickers in our exhibition Queer Algorithms. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about your work that has been in Gus Fisher Gallery’s exhibition programme? I...
Bronte Perry’s recommendation: Terrorist Assemblages
Auckland based artist Bronte Perry is currently exhibiting their newly commissioned work filthy angry faggots in our exhibition Queer Algorithms. For our exhibition reading list they recommended Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by influential...
John Walter’s recommendation: Sianne Ngai on the Aesthetic
UK-based artist John Walter is featured in our current exhibition, Queer Algorithms. For our exhibition reading list he recommended Sianne Ngai's book Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, which aligns with the artist's bright maximalist aesthetic. Read...
Interview with micha cardénas with Clot Magazine
Last year Clot Magazine spoke to artist, theorist and poet micha cárdenas about her work Pregnancy, currently featured in Gus Fisher Gallery's exhibition Queer Algorithms. Read the full interview here.