Art Ache

Emma Bass is exhibiting at Alberton as part of the Auckland Photography Festival 2020. Aimee Ralfini chats with Emma about her creative journey and how her work changes within the space. This podcast is brought to you by Artis Gallery and the Albert-Eden Local Board. Made possible by Liquid Studios.

The Māoriland Film Festival based in Ōtaki on the Kapiti Coast, began with 11 films in 2014, now in 2020, it shows 138 films from 94 Indigenous nations around the world. In this podcast AM Ralfini chats with Madeline de Young, the Kaiwhakahau Hōtaka (Programme Manager) for the Māoriland Charitable Trust which operates the festival. Listener notes: 1. This podcast is longer than usual – but it's so interesting we had to keep all of it in. 2. This podcast was recorded pre Taika Waititi Golden Globe win.

In this podcast Aimee Ralfini talks with Emma Jameson – Assistant Curator of international and New Zealand historic art for the Auckland Art Gallery. The discussion revolves around Danish Design, to which Jameson is co-ordinating curator. Recorded with the help of Liquid Studios, Auckland 2019.

Artist Run Spaces – the indie bands of the Art world. Supernovas of ambition, freedom and idealism. Often created by a collective of Art School grads, they provide a safe space for the next wave of critical thinkers to collide, collaborate and critique. The organisational team of Samoa House Library emerged from the Save UoA Fine Arts Library campaign in September 2018. In this podcast Aimee Ralfini talks with Kathryn Aucamp – One of the key volunteers involved in Samoa House Library.

A cross over too often ignored is between textile, design and fashion design. Textile is a discipline in itself, and when presented via functioning items of clothing, it becomes an incredibly powerful mechanism for storytelling. Juliette Hogan is a name synonymous with stream-lined contemporary women’s wear. The brand has been established for over 12 years now. With her first store opening in Ponsonby, Auckland in 2007. But did you know, Juliette initially trained in textile design, a love of which plays a key role in the creative development of her lines every season? This podcast will be talking with Juliette about the core creative behind her work, the artists she works with to develop her textile designs, what inspires her and heritage, which has made her the woman she is today.

Doris De Pont – Well known in Aotearoa as an influential fashion designer, originally trained as a social anthropologist, which taught her about patterns and models of behavior through different societies and how they express themselves. Fast track a few decades and her unique insights on how she views her surrounds have culminated in an exquisite visual collection of us as Moana people, expressed through fashion and adornment. Too often we envisage dystopia. We’re conditioned to see the negative. De Pont has visualized a version of utopia in 'Moana Currents: Dressing Aotearoa now' and it is beautiful to see. The show was co-curated with fashion journalist Dan Ahwa and is on display at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery, Waitakere until December 1st. We talk in-depth about this exhibition in relation to who we are, now, as people of the Moana. Special Thanks to Doris De Pont and Liquid Studios.

New Zealand artist Dane Mitchell‘s artwork – Post Hoc, is currently on as part of the Venice Biennale in Italy. Known as the Olympics of art, the Venice Biennale is pretty much the ‘top’ for artists. New Zealand’s 2019 representative is Dane Mitchell, whose project delivers cryptic lists of the vanished, the lost, or the destroyed. Mitchell’s work broadcasts a vast inventory of bygone things to locations throughout the city via fake tree cell towers, providing smartphone access via hotspot which you can hear the lists. At the Palazzina Canonica – the epi-center of the work, scrolling lengths of paper lists emerge from a printer placed high upon a structural frame, they cascade down settling in ripples on the floor, forming an elegantly minimal installation of all that which has been lost.

Marie Shannon's photographed love notes between herself and her now-deceased partner, are currently blown up on giant LUMO digitals throughout Auckland this season. Aimée Ralfini chats with the artist about love, loss and how it feels to have something so explicitly private so publically objectified.

Order of Contents: Introduction – What’s this daring maverick of visual humour really like? 1 – A day in the life of Shrigley 2 – Shrigley’s Process 3 – Shrigley’s Inspiration 4 – Reading and writing 5 – Shrigley comes clean about Thom Yorke 6 – Fine Art Meme Dude-Ranch Zen 7 – Shrigley Park 8 – Mind Blowing Art 9 – Influencers 10 – Shrigley’s message for the Millenials 11 – Brexit (can f-off) 12 – Cleanliness. The end.

Natasha Conland – curator in contemporary art at the Auckland Art Gallery talks about current exhibition Groundswell: Avant-Guard Auckland 71-79. When a broad and deep undulation of the ocean, caused by a distant gale or seismic disturbance occurs it’s called a groundswell. When a rapid spontaneous growth in support of a political opinion occurs, it’s called a groundswell. So what happened when a group of Auckland artists started making highly experimental art in the 70’s? Groundswell: Avant-Guard Auckland 71-79.

Charles Ninow – insights on running Auction House / Dealer Gallery Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland New Zealand. Order of contents: Introduction + Art start-up road bumps + Charles’ Artistic heritage + Advice for budding auctioneers + Essays and commissioning writers + The Phone In Bidder and handlers + An excellent app idea + Biggest coo in the upcoming Auction.