On the final day of exhibition Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection, join us at Level 4 of Te Papa Tongarewa for the trials, tribulations, and successes of Art School. Chaired by Dr Heather Galbraith, our panel consisting of artists and educators; Huhana Smith, Steve Carr, and Richard Maloy discussing the value of art school and explore how financial and economic factors shaped the art school experience for Generation X students.
Heather Galbraith
Heather Galbraith is a curator, writer and educator. Born in Auckland, she has lived in London, UK and Auckland and Wellington in Aotearoa. She is Professor of Fine Arts and Director Postgraduate within Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington.
Heather has held roles including Senior Curator Art at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Senior Curator City Gallery Wellington, and inaugural Director/Curator of St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland. She spent 12 years in London, Great Britain, where she undertook postgraduate studies in curatorial practice at Goldsmiths College, and worked as Exhibitions Organiser at Camden Arts Centre, London.
Steve Carr
Steve was born 1976, Gore (NZ) and lives and works in Christchurch (NZ).
Steve Carr’s work frequently talks about precise moments of transformation. He uses lens-based practices and sculpture to explore and interfere with a range of materials and entities, from apples and watermelons to balloons filled with paint, shuttlecocks, fireworks, and smoke. The artist is often the subject of the change, where he has become half-animal, a strange man-child, and a pre-teen girl. He has turned fire extinguishers into glass, bear rugs into wood, tyres into bouquets, and even himself into popcorn.
Carr received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from the Dunedin School of Fine Arts, Dunedin, in 1998, and 2003, he gained a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland. Carr co-founded Dunedin’s Blue Oyster Art Project Space in 1999. Solo exhibitions in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Australia include Chasing the Light, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, City Gallery, Wellington (2019) and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2018); A Manual for Small Archives, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016); Stretching Time, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2014). Carr’s ongoing Bronze tyre installation In Bloom has been touring New Zealand and Australia since 2020.
Steve has been a Senior Lecturer at the Ilam School of Art since 2016 and is represented by STATION Gallery, Melbourne.
Richard Maloy
Richard Maloy belongs to a generation of artists who upon graduation in the late 1990s, were compelled to find a new artistic language through their inheritance of the competing legacies of the 1960s and 1970s: minimalism, process art, performance and conceptualism. Like these art movements, Maloy’s practice is attuned to the politics of space and time. His multi-disciplinary practice has included sculpture, photography, installation and moving image. His works often drawing on performativity and process in both creation and presentation. Maloy has exhibited major works at the Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2012). Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong (2016) and Freedom Farmers Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2013). Maloy received a Master’s in Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2001 and completed a Fulbright Scholarship based in California in 2010. Maloy is currently a Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts and Programme Leader Undergraduate Studies at School of Fine Arts Whitecliffe Auckland.
Huhana Smith
Huhana (Ngāti Tukorehe, Raukawa ki te Tonga) is an interdisciplinary researcher who engages in major environmental projects about freshwater to marine health and for climate change pressures that beset coastal ancestral lands and related biodiversity for Kuku, Horowhenua; within Aotearoa New Zealand and into the world.
Huhana is also a co-curator who engages in planning and implementing large-scale kaupapa Māori and action-orientated art/design projects with the global/local art/design group called Te Waituhi ā Nuku: Drawing Ecologies. Every activist intervention highlights potential solutions/scenarios to address the many environmental decline problems Māori and all communities face.
Huhana is currently leading projects in Horowhenua-Kāpiti, using mātauranga Māori methods with mapping technologies and sciences, to address climate change concerns for the coastal Tahamata farm of Ngāti Tukorehe. This latest mapping and photogrammetry drone-based project is helping make complex emissions reductions planning visual and accessible to local Māori coastal landholders, with coincidental benefit for wider communities.
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