Circuit
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (2025). Installation view, Radicant, Hocken Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2025. Image courtesy of Hocken Collections Te Uare Taoka o Hākena.
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Yearning for Radiance
Yearning for Radiance
Robyn Maree Pickens unpicks the archival impulse in Radicant, an exhibition by artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux at the Hocken Gallery.
Recently added works
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.
Elbow Room (2018)
A portrait in Super 8 of the Modernist architecture of central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland City.
Whakahokia (2025)
A beachside restoration and performance event in which participants removed invasive maram grass from the dunes of Kuku beach.
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.
Writing & podcast
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.
An Image for the Signares
An Image for the Signares
Balamohan Shingade follows Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye between two archipelagos with the same name, tracing her attempts to find the signare, a figure entangled within the complex inheritances of French colonialism in Senegal.
Comic Release: Sean Grattan
Comic Release: Sean Grattan
"If I didn't laugh, I'd cry." — a conversation between Joe Jowitt and Sean Grattan, the first episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Comic Release.
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Pati Tyrell in Mana Moana Pōneke
This Matariki, Pati Tyrell's commission Tulouna le Lagi (2022) is included in Mana Moana Pōneke, a series of Indigenous short films projected on a water screen over Whairepo Lagoon in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington