MFA
Studio Work August/September 2025
- 3 August 2025
Naming the Hauraki repo
- 17 July 2025
Notes on the correct naming of what is now called The Hauraki Plains.
Timeline of the Great Piako Swamp
- 17 July 2025
Notes taken from Paul Monin's History of Hauraki on Te Ara Encylcopaedia of New Zealand
Seminar 3 Winter/July 2025
- 14 July 2025
Tools, Technology, Apparatus. He toka tū moana, he ākinga nā ngā tai. A rock standing in the ocean, withstanding the tides.
Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction.
- 10 June 2025
A 3-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity
LIT Review #4 - Ruins of Memory
- 26 May 2025
Rebecca Solnit, “The Ruins of Memory” in Storming the Gates of Paradise
LIT Review # 3 - Making Kin
- 26 May 2025
Donna Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Humanities.
Seminar 2 Autumn/April 2025
- 18 April 2025
Intention/Reception. E kitea ai ngā taonga o te moana, me māku koe. If you seek the treasures of the ocean, you'd better get wet.
The Māori worldview - te ao Māori
- 10 April 2025
The Māori worldview considers everything living and non-living to be interconnected.
Artist: Anselm Kiefer
- 3 April 2025
Central to the artist’s interpretation of the past is its enduring correspondence with the present and future, endowing the artist’s work with restorative qualities of transformation and hope.
Endangered Species Aotearoa
- 2 April 2025
Visits the Whangamarino Swamp and wetlands, plus Pūkorokoro (Season 2, Episode 5 TVNZ)
Can't keep building stop-banks forever - scientists
- 28 March 2025
New Zealand must change the way it manages river flooding risks...
Auckland was once a food garden managed by Māori. That knowledge could shape the future.
- 28 March 2025
Tāmaki Makaurau was built off the back of Māori growing and selling food. How can we look to the past for what lies ahead?
LIT Review # 2 - Forest-Death
- 24 March 2025
Simon Schama. “Der Holzwog: The Track Though the Woods” In Landscape and Memory.
LIT Review # 1 - “Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained”
- 24 March 2025
Geoff Park, “Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained” In Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua.
Irritable in Aotearoa; Darwin & the Barbarians
- 25 February 2025
The New Zealand that Charles Darwin dismissed as “the land of cannibalism and all atrocity” after his short visit in 1835, later featured prominently in his writings on evolution.
Landscape and Memory
- 24 February 2025
by Simon Schama. In particular, Schama's comments on Anselm Kiefer.
Maps of the Hauraki Plains
- 15 February 2025
Historical photos of Hauraki Plains
- 15 February 2025
Sourced online from Auckland Library, Papers Past...
Using history & colour to point...
- 1 November 2024
Artists using bright colour and/or historical imagery
Seminar 4 Spring/September 2024
- 20 September 2024
Meaning & Value. He tina ki runga, he tāmore ki raro. In order to flourish above, one must be firmly rooted below.
White-Saviour-Industrial-Complex
- 5 August 2024
Deep dive: Artist lecture with Andy Butler @ Artspace Aotearoa
Seminar Three Winter/July 2024
- 15 July 2024
Making Public. He tina ki runga, he tāmore ki raro. In order to flourish above, one must be firmly rooted below.
Endeavour by Anton Maurer
- 14 July 2024
visualising the impacts of capitalism and colonisation on Aotearoa
Artist: Brett Graham - Wasteland
- 16 May 2024
Wastelands continues themes from Brett’s recent exhibition Tai Moana Tai Tangata ....
Geoff Park 'Theatre Country - Essays on landscape and whenua'
- 22 February 2024
Chapter 12 - 'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained.'
Seminar 1 Summer February 2024
- 11 February 2024
Art as Inquiry. E kitea ai ngā taonga o te moana, me māku koe. If you seek the treasures of the ocean, you'd better get wet.