Exhibition tour with Kaitohu Director Ruth Buchanan
Join Kaitohu Director Ruth Buchanan to gain insight into the artworks on display from senior artists Gordon Bennett and Emily Karaka. As potent voices of their generation this tour will explore these painters' visually distinct and bold approaches to telling history from their respective contexts of Australia and Aotearoa.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This event is free.
This event is held in the gallery at Artspace Aotearoa.
This location is accessible.
This event will be roving in the gallery but seats can be provided.
Biography
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Ruth Buchanan is an artist of Taranaki and currently Kaitohu Director at Artspace Aotearoa. She works across exhibition making, writing, design, and teaching. She has realised significant exhibitions and commissioned works with Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngamotu New Plymouth; Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart; The New Commissioners, Mochengladback; Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington; Badischer Kunsterverin, Karlsruhe; Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery; MASP, Sao Paolo; Gwangju Biennale (8); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunsthaus Bregenz; If I can’t Dance..., Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; and The Showroom, London. In 2018 she was awarded the Walters Prize by international judge Adriano Pedrosa.