Join authors Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins in conversation with Hirini Kaa as they explore the action-packed life of Tuai, who not only travelled across the world, but across cultures.
Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele discusses his photographic project Out of Context which focusses on his generation of Polynesians born to migrant Pacific Island parents as well as urban Māori.
During the Festival of Architecture, and to coincide with the showing of Future Islands at Objectspace, The New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) is running an afternoon event focusing on the issue of exhibiting architecture.
Join visiting special guest presenter, Nici Cumpston, artistic Director of TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia for a talk on the stunning range of contemporary indigenous Australian paintings that feature in the exhibition Other People Think.
Singapore-based artist Oh Soon Hwa discusses her photographic series Quiet Dream which was set around a small island in the Mekong Delta nicknamed 'Taiwanese Island' where many young women have married foreigners such as Taiwanese or Korean men and left their homeland to get a better life.
We are collaborating with the Museums of Auckland, namely MOTAT, Auckland Museum and New Zealand Maritime Museum, to celebrate Pacific culture, rhythms and flavours with Pasifika Vibes, an event running alongside the annual Pasifika Festival in Western Springs.
A descendant of the Muiscas tribe in Colombia, Vicente Ovalle has a profound respect for the tribe’s connection with the Earth and the land, which has also greatly inspired his philosophy. The connection between the land and culture is a theme that permeates his artwork. Each piece Ovalle creates tells a story that links back to his indigenous roots and combines influences from Māori and Pacific Island culture.
Actor Sam Neill confronts the Anzac Centenary through the lens of his family’s military tradition. He uncovers forgotten truths that reveal the power of the enduring myth of Anzac that still haunt our two countries’ histories.
Vincent J.F. Huang talks about the eco-art he has been practicing since 1999, and discusses his experience of using art to assist Tuvalu's climate crisis at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 55th Venice Biennale.
The opening sequence of a very young boy delivering a sermon with vitriolic hatred in his eyes sets the scene for this chilling recording of the spread of radical Islam in Pakistan, and the resulting clash of ideologies between moderate and fundamentalist forces.
Taking the format of the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs curator and writer Susan Bright’s talk will take eight images that have influenced her thinking and approach to photography.
As part of the Biennale of Sydney’s investigation into their Archive, 21st Biennale Artistic Director Mami Kataoka and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Director Rhana Devenport co-moderate a conversation with three New Zealand artists whose contributions to Biennale of Sydney editions in 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2012 remain in our memories.
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![Auckland from the buoy. [verso: North Head and Islands from the Flag Staff].](https://collections.aucklandartgallery.com/images/gallery/1931-1940/1939_17_33.jpg)
![Cases de naturels. (Baie des Iles) [Maori Houses, Bay of Islands]](https://collections.aucklandartgallery.com/images/gallery/1981-1990/1987_20.jpg)
![Vue de Kahouwéra, Village fortifié à la baie des îles. (Nouvelle Zélande), [View of Kahouwera, Fortified village in the Bay of Islands, (New Zealand)]](https://collections.aucklandartgallery.com/images/gallery/2001-2010/2009_3_9.jpg)
