Arts commentator Nina Tonga reflects on the role artists have in shaping how we perceive things and associate ourselves with a shifting sense of our place.
She'll talk about a few of shows, including the knockout exhibition Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda at Auckland Art Gallery, which opened last month, a new installation by Sione Monū and Manu Vaeatangitau Kindred: A Leiti Chronicle.
Sione recently opened an exhibition in Poneke at Robert Heald Gallery entitled ‘Volver’. S
he'll also profile a major retrospective of Dame Robin White opening at Te Papa in partnership with Auckland Art Gallery in first week of June called ‘Something is Happening Here’.
Photo: Robin White, Te Papa