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Brett Graham, Whangamārino (2025), and Wastelands (2024). Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
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On Wastelands with Brett Graham
On Wastelands with Brett Graham
On peat as palimpsest: Kathryn Graham speaks with artist Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui) about his new exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, comprising the monumental sculpture Wastelands (2024) and Whangamārino (2025), a new multi-channel video work.
Recently added works
PASITHEA (RE-STAGED) (2025)
PASITHEA revisits Marina Abramović and Ulay's durational performance Rest Energy (1980) through a contemporary Queer lens.
Let’s sometimes forget where I come from (2025)
A document of the neighbourhood surrounding Lee’s artist residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Sekali pendatang, tetap pendatang (2023)
Lee retraces a journey to her hometown, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, visiting sites of personal and collective memory.
Whangamārino (detail) (2025)
Re-working news footage of a 2024 fire in the Whangamārino wetlands, Graham adds animation, personal history, and an ominous soundtrack.
Writing & podcast
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Sam Tozer on VFX and 'Impossible Lenses' in Brett Graham's Whangamārino
Sam Tozer on VFX and 'Impossible Lenses' in Brett Graham's Whangamārino
How can artists work with visual effects makers? Kathryn Graham speaks to Sam Tozer about his work on Brett Graham's six channel video work Whangamārino.
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Toloa Tales
Toloa Tales
Gloriana Meyers considers the myriad ways that our home shapes our identity in Toloa Tales, an exhibition of two new works by Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū that explore what it means to return to an ancestral homeland.
Without Us, There is No Memory
Without Us, There is No Memory
CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist, and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka navigates oceanic storylines in the work of Vailahi Vailahi.
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Three new commissions awarded for Masons Screen
Shannon Novak, Sarah Hudson and Joe Jowitt to make new works