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29 Aug 2022

Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au: Legal Personhood and our Rivers

Join Kaye Maree Dunn, Terese McLeod, Professor Catherine Iorns Magallanes, Gerrard Albert and Dr Mike Joy to discuss ‘legal personhood’ as a philosophical approach and practical strategy to ...

29 Apr 2022

Yarns With Ans - Time Capsule: Ans Westra in the Hutt

On a rainy morning at the beginning of autumn, in a slightly unpredictable council car, I joined photographer Ans Westra and curator Sian van Dyk for a four-wheeled ...

12 Feb 2022

Mark Schroder – Workplace Orientation

'So... Tell us about the cheese and the bananas.' Artist Mark Schroder and Gus Fisher Gallery Curator, Lisa Beauchamp take us on a workplace orientation in 'Mark Schroder: ...

Claudia Kogachi, There's No I in Team, 2021. Mark Tantrum Photography, 2021

23 Sep 2021

Claudia Kogachi in conversation with Chelsea Nichols

Did your mother ever tell you, ‘There’s no I in team’? Claudia Kogachi’s mom did, so she made it the title of her exhibition.Senior Curator Dr. Chelsea Nichols ...

[WATCH] The Most Dedicated: Street Art Festival takes over Lower Hutt, 2021

In March 2021, The Most Dedicated: Street Art Festival turned Lower Hutt CBD into an outdoor art gallery with internationally acclaimed street art collective TMD Crew.

11 Apr 2021

Not today... Can you decolonise an art gallery?

Join Nigel Borell, former curator Māori at Auckland Art Gallery, Puawai Cairns, Director Audience and Insight at Te Papa and Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi), The Dowse ...

Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Terminus (install view) at The Dowse. Photo by Hagen Hopkins.

21 Mar 2021

Terminus: Artist Talk

Visual artist Jess Johnson & video-maker and animator Simon Ward in conversation with curator and Dowse director Karl Chitham about their unique collaborative relationship and the process of ...

8 Mar 2021

Decolonising your Puku: indigenous food sovereignty

How do our food systems impact our lands, waters and whānau wellbeing? Jared Hiakita, Kelly Marie Francis and Dr Jessica Hutchings with facilitator Kaye Maree Dunn, discusses approaches ...

Angela Singer, Second Sight 2020 at The Dowse (install view). Photo by Mark Tantrum.

19 Jan 2021

Angela Singer: Second Sight artist talk

Dr Chelsea Nicholls chats to artist Angela Singer about her most recent exhibition, Second Sight. Singer discusses her practice and shares stories behind the ghost birds, floating snouts, ...

BC Collective, Following the herd, 2020, at The Dowse (install view). Photo by Ted Whitaker.

1 Dec 2020

BC Collective in Conversation

BC Collective, Cora-Allan Wickliffe (Ngāpuhi, Taniui, Niue) and Daniel Twiss (Lakota Sioux, Rosebud Reservation) was in conversation with curator Grace Ryder about Following the herd, their new installation ...

Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror, Making like a Forest 2020 (install view) at The Dowse. Photo by Ted Whitaker.

30 Nov 2020

Making Like a Forest: Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror

In Making Like a Forest, artist Xin Cheng and designer Adam Ben-Dror explore how kindness and care is embodied within two local communities: Common Unity Project Aotearoa and ...

Reuben Paterson, Black Matter 2020 (install view) at The Dowse. Photo by Hagen Hopkins.

23 Nov 2020

Reuben Paterson: in conversation

Listen to artist Reuben Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) in conversation with curator and The Dowse director Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi) on the opening weekend ...