Career
infrastructure
for artists.

Artist Feature 004: Fletcher McClelland. Ōtautahi-based photographer Fletcher McClelland traces the built environment's impact on landscape and waterways, moving between film, camera-less photography, and long exposures that expose more noise than image. We discussed sequencing, leaving the camera behind, and what it means to photograph a place "from" the environment rather than "of" it.

Passage (With and Without You) is a finalist in the NYAA 2026, 20–25 category.

Artist Feature 005: mr BLœck. Kemureti-based painter, sculptor and photographer. He works under the mr BLœck pseudonym across painting, sculpture, photography and video. His expressionist work rejects minimalism through excess, distortion and colour, whilst his titles name the social frustrations most practitioners only hint at. In 2022 he opened a pop-up contemporary gallery in Cambridge representing emerging and Māori artists, and continues to build informal exhibition infrastructure across the Waikato. We discussed the tension between commercial and artistic practice, the lack of spaces for artists outside the main centres, and what it means to support other artists rather than compete with them.

$18.3 million went into regional arts organisations over three years. How much reached artists? Nobody knows. The reporting framework doesn't ask.

Passage (With & Without You), 2026. Almost ready for submission

Sample artefact for i just need someone to believe in me billboard artwork. ENG digiprint on aluminium substrate.