Caitlin Rose D. Artist and Mother

03/11/2025

We’re looking for a Kaihautū Director to lead our small team in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

This position suits someone who wants to foster innovative artistic practice locally, nationally, and internationally. The Kaihautū Director will work closely with the Kairauhī Curator and the Enjoy Board of Trustees to deliver a brave and lively programme. The Kaihautū Director will also have people management, administrative, and financial responsibilities. You need to be resourceful, organised and committed to contemporary art in Aotearoa.

This is a fixed-term contract that will enable the right candidate to bring their vision to the gallery, and to help shape Enjoy’s path for the next three years.

Applications close Monday 24 November.

For more information and the job description, visit our website.

03/11/2025

Introducing our last Recipient of the Paemanu Summer art Residencies 2025/26
Turumeke Harrington
Hapū: Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Kāti Hāteatea
Marae: Uenuku Moeraki

Turumeke Harrington is a Kāi Tahu artist currently based in Pōneke Wellington with her young daughter. She has a background in industrial design and fine arts. An interest in whakapapa, space, colour and material sees her creating large sculptural installations at the intersection of art and design.
‘I propose a project based in Moeraki, collecting sounds and audio responses using taoka pūoro made from the materials of the area.
I am interested in how sound and landscape connect us to tipuna through time and the emotive potential of audio and want to further develop the sound works I have been producing as part of my installation and sculpture.
I would like to develop a library of sounds, ambient recordings and performed sounds and melodies to use in my future mahi as a way of remaining connected to this whenua when I am back home in Pōneke.’

This residency programme is supported by The Ngāi Tahu Fund
It is the aim of these Paemanu residencies for artists to deepen whakapapa connections, in particular with hapū and marae, to meet with kaumātua and cultural experts of those communities. These residencies are self-directed projects that enable the artists opportunities for research and development which will enrich their practices.

02/11/2025

02/11/2025

Pānui: We have our AGM coming up.
Wednesday 5th November 2025, online from 7PM.
Please note this AGM will only be online this year via Zoom

Please register your intention to attend or your appologies by emailing [email protected]

30/10/2025

Opeing tonight in Te Whanganui-a-Tara @ Play_station artist run space

"Daffodils for Taua" by AJ Manaaki Hope

30/10/2025 - 22/11/2025

Opening Wednesday 29 October 5:30 pm

"In Kai Tahu mīta, Taua is the kin term for grandmother – relational rather than biological, extending to any older wāhine who has held you through whānaukataka. In wider usage, taua also refers to a war party: a collective in motion, bound together in conflict. Daffodils for Taua grows from the tensions of these distinct meanings, holding nurture against mobilisation, memory against resistance.

A.J Manaaki Hope presents a new body of work that draws from Aotearoa’s pastoral canon only to turn it inside out. Landscapes drift, unmoored, towards an ancestral horizon. Metal manu punctuate the space while a soundscape of taonga pūoro, performed by musician Wear Pounamu, engulfs the viewer.

Here, spring is not rebirth but return. The gesture of gathering daffodils for Taua hovers just beyond reach – an offering felt, not seen.

The works hold close to whenua and whānau while addressing the ongoing weight of colonial histories in the ecological and cultural landscape. Through reduction and repair, the practice considers how memory persists in materials and how images can be re-grounded in place.

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A.J Manaaki Hope (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu; Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Te Ata; Pākehā, b. Ōtepoti, 1999) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ōtaki whose work moves between painting, assemblage, and sound. Using salvaged materials, they build paint-objects that return images to what holds: a figure, a vessel, a tool, a taonga form. Sourced from family snapshots and museum archives, these anchors sit against supports with their own past lives. "

Poster Design by Harris Wilson

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28/10/2025

Paemanu Kaikōrero – Episode 02: Helen Brown – Ngāi Tahu ArchivesRecorded on Monday, October 13, 2025In this episode, we are joined by Helen Brown, Principal ...

09/09/2025

It's the final week of He Hokinga Mahara by Melanie Tangaere Baldwin & Georgina May Young + Āio & Rocko Neon Young Norling!

We are hosting an artist talk on Saturday to close the exhibition. Hope to see you there!

He Hokinga Mahara | Artist talk
Saturday 6 September 2025
2pm-3pm

Join us in-person or online for a conversation between He Hokinga Mahara artists Melanie Tangaere Baldwin and Georgina May Young. The artists will discuss the themes, materials, and whanaunga present in their works with input from Blue Oyster staff members Piupiu Maya Turei and Jordan Davey-Emms.

🤸The in-person version of the talk will take place at Blue Oyster, 16 Dowling Street, Ōtepoti Dunedin.
💻The online version of the talk will be hosted via zoom.
🖇Please go to the event page for further details, including zoom links and accessibility information.

Image credit: Georgina May Young + Rocko Neon Young Norling, Whakatiputipu (reverse), 2025. Photo by Jordan Davey-Emms.

08/09/2025

Pātaka Kai: Growing Kai Sovereignty celebrates and encourages a return to Indigenous values and practices to help protect the planet and fight climate change.

08/09/2025

The exhibition, Journeys Through the Red Thread: Āta Haere, Āta Titiro, Āta Whakarongo, is a collective exploration of matrilineal and maternal narratives. Over months and years of slow curation, a journal and a clay figure travelled across Aotearoa, weaving stories and responses between artists. That process carried with it aroha, creativity, and deep connection.

My piece in this exhibition is titled Ka mau ki oku ringa tīpuna wāhine, 2025
Cloth nappy, kōkōwai, uku, and muka
60 × 74 cm
Ka mau ki oku ringa tīpuna wāhine draws on personal whakapapa to explore themes of abundance, care, and maternal lineage. The work features a print of a knitted blanket made by my birth mother, layered with materials sourced from both ancestral and current whenua—kōkōwai from my marae and uku from where my children are growing up. The diamond motif, originally part of a family blanket pattern, is here reinterpreted as a reference to pātiki, symbolising abundance and the flow of intergenerational aroha. Ripples, waves, and lines echo throughout the work, speaking to nature’s rhythm, the flow of care through generations, and the enduring ties of maternal lineage. This is a tribute to the women who sustain us, the unseen labour of love, and the abundance they embody.

20/08/2025

20/08/2025

'Indigenous__Trace' is here!

Our cover celebrates the print work of Noongar artist and leader Laurel Nannup, with (for the first time) red text to mark 15 years of Artlink's Indigenous issue. ❤️

A massive thank you to our 'Trace' guest editors Jessyca Hutchens and Zena Cumpston and to this issue's talented writers, artists, contributors and as always design team.

Purchase a copy from our website or at one of our stockists, or better yet subscribe to support independent art writing and publishing.

Cover image: Laurel Nannup, Grandad’s Visitors, 2021. Etching, 57 x 57 cm, Berndt Museum Collection. Courtesy and © the artist