Speaker of the Month: Julia Holderness

Speaker of the Month: Julia Holderness

Friends

Wednesday 25 June 2025 / 6pm

Education Centre

Friends $5, Non-Members $10, Students with ID free

The invention of Florence Weir, her artworks and her history, is a “device to facilitate connections that go beyond recorded histories and fill gaps.” In this talk, local artist Julia Holderness will discuss her figuring of Weir and specifically her involvement in the exhibition Modern Women: Flight of Time which was presented at Auckland Art Gallery. This exhibition highlighted the leading role women artists have played in shaping the development of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Julia Holderness is an artist based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand. She holds a PhD in practice-led visual arts from Auckland University of Technology (2022), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury (2002) and an Honours (First-class) in Visual Arts from AUT University (2015). Her work traces alternative histories of modernism in New Zealand and her installations combine mixed media fabrications, often textile and ceramic making with historical materials from art and design archives. For SCAPE Public Art Season 2024 she designed a lightbox for the Hotel Montreal. 

This event will be held in the Education Space on the ground floor of the Gallery.

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