Artist Features
4 posts
20:00, 22 Apr
Artist Feature 001: Max Nasmith. Kirikiriroa-based sculptor Max Nasmith constructs his interactive pieces entirely from second-hand materials, everyday furniture, and lighting circuits. We discussed material interception, apprenticeships, and the need for stronger local arts infrastructure.
20:23, 29 Apr
Artist Feature 002: Isabella Fuller. Pōneke-based photographer, writer, and one half of dream-pop duo Laluna, Isabella builds dense, layered visuals through analog collage and multiple exposures. Her practice moves freely between image, sound, and poetry — each medium speaking in the same register. We discussed creative freedom, the cost of making work alongside full-time study, and the spaces Wellington is missing for young artists outside art school.
20:00, 13 May
Artist Feature 003: 心怡 / Xinyi Zhang. Tāmaki Makaurau-based ceramicist and photographer, Xinyi builds subtle, luminous objects from handbuilt clay, each one a vessel of memory, childhood, and the natural world. Her practice moves between ceramic sculpture and high-quality documentary photography, the two so closely entwined it is difficult to say where one ends and the other begins. We discussed clay as a way of touching land, the poetics of permanence and impermanence, and what emerging artists in Aotearoa need more of right now.
22:00, 28 May
Artist Feature 004: Xavier Xu. Tāmaki Makaurau-based installation and moving image artist, Xavier films the structures that shape bodies into compliance, the school gate, the factory entrance, the rhythms we stop noticing. His dual-channel installation places education and labour face to face, forcing the viewer to absorb one while the other waits behind them. We discussed the camera as a tool for revealing invisible control, the point where personal memory becomes political work, and what long-term support actually looks like for artists in Aotearoa.
