Events
Performance
Bread
Saturday 10 May, 1-2pm
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.
All are welcome.
Film screening
IN JOY (1980)
with CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image
Saturday 10 May, 2-3pm
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.
Film duration: 28 minutes
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.
Gus Fisher Gallery
74 Shortland Street
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Central 1010
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10am – 5pm
Saturdays:
10am – 4pm