Artist talk with Erika Holm, Ngaroma Riley, and Tarika Sabherwal

Join exhibiting artists Erika Holm, Ngaroma Riley, and Tarika Sabherwal in conversation with Kairauhī Curator Robbie Handcock. Working across painting and sculpture, these artists explore the possibilities and limitations of storytelling and myth-making. The artists will share their creative processes and experiences participating in this year’s Chartwell Trust New Commissions programme, a unique Artspace Aotearoa initiative that offers year-long professional and curatorial support.

Booking is encouraged but not essential.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This event is free.
This event is held in the gallery at Artspace Aotearoa.
This location is accessible.
This will be a moving conversation, seating can be requested.
Light refreshments will be available.

BIOGRAPHIES

Erika Holm is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her work explores desire, the feminised excess of ornamentation, and objects as vessels of memory. With a background in furniture-making, she incorporates wood and metal, as well as bodily matter, into her sculptures. Holm has worked at Apartmento Contemporary Furniture and is currently a workshop technician at Auckland University of Technology. Her work has been shown at Grace Aotearoa and Michael Lett, with a forthcoming exhibition at Ivan Anthony later this year.

Ngaroma Riley is an artist, curator and organiser of Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri and Pākēha descent. A founder of Te Ana o Hine, a carving shed led by women based at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau, Riley began her carving journey making buddhist statues while working in Japan. Since returning to Aotearoa in 2020 she has completed a Certificate in Whakairo at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and has exhibited with Season Aotearoa in Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Ara i Whiti as part of Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival.

Tarika Sabherwal is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau who explores ways to narrativise personal relationships and landscapes within a South Asian mythological framework. Exploring how ancient stories can be reflected in our current lives, Sabherwal’s work primarily uses an airbrush technique and has been experimenting with deconstructing the canvas, drawing inspiration from South Asian textile traditions. Sabherwal has had exhibitions with Khōj in New Delhi, Season Aotearoa and RM Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau, and Jhana Millers Gallery in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.