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Holiday Programme: Writing with Karen Healey
Karen Healey, photographed by Emma Brittenden.
Workshop
Past event
Education Centre
$15
How can art inspire the written word? Join author and educator Karen Healey for a one-day writing workshop inspired by Spring Time is Heart-break.
Christchurch-based Karen Healey writes speculative fiction and magical romance for young adults and adults, including the award-winning When We Wake duology and Guardian of the Dead. Her most recent book is Bespoke and Bespelled, the first novella in the Wellywood Magic series.
Bookings essential. Ages 13-18
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Exhibition
Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa
Until 24 March | All ground floor galleries; Until 19 May | Selected ground floor galleries
A major exhibition featuring works that tell stories about personal and collective histories, communication, distance and relationships to our environment.
Artist Profile
Spring Time is Heart-break
In anticipation of our major summer exhibition, curatorial assistant Jane Wallace talked to five of the artists involved in the show. Working across a range of media, the twenty-five contemporary artists in Spring Time is Heart-break have a shared interest in storytelling. They consider ideas around communication, distance, memory, the body and materiality, generating works that gently reveal contemporary forms of image-making and circulation. How can we communicate through time, or in a different tongue? What do materials reveal to us as they are transformed from one state to another? From rimurapa harvesting to cavorting queer tableaux and fish ‘n’ chips, Heidi Brickell (Te Hika o Papauma, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tara, Rangitāne, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Apakura), Priscilla Rose Howe, Lucy Meyle, and Steven Junil Park and John Harris share their energetic practices – a small glimpse of what will be on display this November.