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Works by Bridget Reweti, Grant Stevens, Connie Samaras, Rachel Hirabayashi, Martin Hill and Philippa Jones.

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Main image: Grant Stevens, Crushing, 2009, digital video with sound, 4 min 11 sec, courtesy the artist and Starkwhite.

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Artists' bios:

Bridget Reweti is a Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi artist and curator. Her lens-based practice champions Māori histories embedded in landscapes through names, narratives and lived experiences. Bridget was the 2020/21 Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, is a member of Mata Aho Collective and co-editor of ATE: Journal of Māori Art. Bridget is co-curator with Melanie Oliver of 2019-22 national series of exhibitions Māori Moving Image and co-editor of the book by the same name.

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Grant Stevens is an Australian artist based in Sydney. Working predominantly with computer graphics, moving image, and photography, his practice explores the various ways that digital technologies and conventions of representation mediate our inner worlds and social realities. Stevens has exhibited widely and his works are held in numerous public and private collections. He is currently Deputy Head of School (Art) at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, where he leads programs in Fine Arts, Media Arts, Art Theory, and Curating and Cultural Leadership. He is represented by Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney and Starkwhite, Auckland/Queenstown.

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Martin Hill and Philippa Jones have collaborated for more than 25 years here in the South Island and around the world to create ephemeral sculptures in nature that return to nature, emulating nature’s design. Hill's photographs express nature’s circular design and interconnectedness and are all that remain of the sculptures. They are exhibited, published and collected worldwide. They are co-authors of the book Fine Line.

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In conversation with… Martin Hill and Philippa Jones

Thursday 6 October, 10:30am | FREE | No booking required

Rachel Hirabayashi is a self-taught artist with a background as a children's illustrator and graphic designer. She has a degree in Art History and Theory from the University of Otago. She lives in Cromwell and her interest in Central Otago's landscape and history have been starting points for a number of series of works in acrylic, both large and small. Her works are images and ideas filtered through 'emotional memory', which she channels to produce a distinctive visual language.

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Connie Samaras lives and works in Los Angeles. Working primarily in photography and video, she employs a variety of interdisciplinary frames and aesthetic strategies in developing projects. Her ongoing interests include: the variable membrane between fiction and real world; political geographies and psychological dislocation in the everyday; speculative landscapes and architectural narratives; science fiction genres and future imaginaries; the legacy of U.S. social change movements in a shifting global economy; paradox and the political unconscious; art as historical artifact and differing systems of cataloguing history. Over the past 25 years she has shown her work extensively, including a solo exhibition After the American Century at the California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Past awards include a California Community Foundation Fellowship, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Adeline Kent Award, and a National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Artists and Writers Grant.

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Supported by Harvey Norman Queenstown.

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