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ON E WOM A N SHOW Harris Street in central Wellington used to be home to The Women’s Gallery (1979-2003). City Gallery now sits near the original site and hosts an exhibition dedicated to a founding member of the Women’s Gallery, Joanna Margaret Paul. Imagined in the Context of a Room displays Paul’s painting, drawings, poetry, photography, and experimental film work. Her work, spanning 30 years from the 1970s to the 2000s, was both deeply personal and quietly political, legitimising her experience as a woman and a mother, and as a feminist interested in the interior and domestic.
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Documenting the personal possessions of his uncle was a mammoth task for artist Lucien Rizos. His uncle, Gerald O’Brien, was Labour MP for Island Bay from 1968 to 1979. On his death in 2017, his private world of hand-written fictional histories, maps, painted figures, and imagined battles was discovered. Even his wife of 60 years hadn’t known about the world O’Brien had been creating since childhood. Rizos has photographed and documented it in Everything, showing at Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery.
Disability activist and writer Robyn Hunt is Toi Pōneke’s inaugural deaf and/or disabled artist in residence. During her six-week stay in November and December Hunt will work on a collection of personal essays with a disability focus. Primarily a non-fiction writer, Hunt also helped co-found creative writing group Crip the Lit to help deaf and disabled writers have a voice in mainstream writing.
When Malia Johnston studied dance at UNITEC in Auckland, the dance studios were in the old Carrington Psychiatric Hospital, where author Janet Frame spent time. This sparked a lasting interest in one of New Zealand’s most famous writers, and has culminated in a collaboration with Red Leap Theatre to produce Owls Do Cry. The adaption of the book for stage takes a multidisciplinary approach, with Frame’s rich imagery reimagined as physical and visual theatre. At Circa Theatre from 3 November.
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