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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

Whangamārino (detail) (2025)
Re-working news footage of a 2024 fire in the Whangamārino wetlands, Graham adds animation, personal history, and an ominous soundtrack.

Elbow Room (2018)
A portrait in Super 8 of the Modernist architecture of central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland City.

Western Line (2023)
A flickering view of the journey of the Western Line railway as it intersects with the urban fabric of west Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, accompanied by a soundscape composed of field recordings and improvised drone guitar.

Ponc Pontio (2025)
A performance in homage to the slate mine workers of Gwynedd, Wales, who helped to found Bangor University, in which the artist carried local slate slabs up the hill to the university.
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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 do 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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Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Commissions 2025/26
CIRCUIT invites proposals for the next annual series of artist commissions for Masons Screen