Nicholas Lindstrom chats to Che Fu about his induction into the 2026 New Zealand Music Hall of Fame (Te Whare Taonga Puoro o Aotearoa) as well as the story behind the track Misty Frequencies!
Hamish Cloleman is a Pōneke-based painter whose practice explores the notions of memory and nostalgia through these luminous oil paintings.
Coleman uses a unique approach to image making by gathering source material from fleeting moments that he records on his personal camera. From these videos, Coleman then selects specific stills that capture a kind of in-between moment. Through the act of painting these recorded moments, Coleman interrogates the ways in which memory transforms into nostalgia and how memory itself morphs and shifts through time.
In his current exhibition at Season, Whippersnapper, Coleman presents a new body of paintings that continues in this ongoing exploration of these captured moments of time. Within the exhibition, Coleman draws on a variety of imagery, scenic landscapes, horses, dogs, the exterior of a house, and a hand holding a yo-yo.
The presented final image, although holding this cinematographic quality, offers something alternative to that of a photograph—an image that has shifted through the act of painting itself. Coleman highlights this act of shifting through his use of interference pigments. Resulting in these ephemeral paintings that transform as one walks around the work. Asking the viewer to look twice, and sit in that moment of the fleeting in-between.
Maya caught up with Hamish Coleman about the show and his overall practice.
Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. His 2018 book on Palestinian resistance movements, Hamas Contained, was shortlisted for a Palestine book award.
His coming-of-age memoir, Fire in Every Direction, was published late last year. Described by Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost, as “moving and generous”, it spans Beirut, Amman, and London while remaining distinctly Palestinian.
Caeden caught up with Tareq ahead of the Auckland Writers Festival this week, where he will be speaking.
For Fancy New Band today Huia had Moonwoven come into the studio!
Moonwoven Is a genre/gender bending local band, they switch instruments and their sound depending on each song. Today on Fancy New Band we were able to have a taste of three tracks off of their upcoming ep that was anounced on the show !
Audrey Goggin is a London-born Tāmaki-based artist whose primarily oil painting practice uses primary source research as an anchor for her exploration of identity and belonging in relation to her mixed heritage and immigrant background.
Her current exhibition at Window Gallery, 馬上封侯, presents a beautiful large painting piece by Goggin on unstretched canvas. Using a photograph of her great aunt as a young child sitting on her family’s white horse as a starting point, the work sees the artist approaching the year of the horse through an exploration of her mixed Chinese-Pākehā heritage through the Chinese zodiac and its significance in Chinese culture.
With her great aunt being born in a Horse year, and herself a monkey year, the artist was reminded of the Chinese idiom, 馬上封侯, which literally translates to monkey sitting upon a horse, but can also take the inferred meaning of a quick advancement or rise in status. Connecting herself to the original image through this idiom, Goggin’s younger self takes the place of her great aunt’s position, now a monkey sitting upon a horse – in hopes of a prosperous year ahead of passion, ambition, and rapid change with her whakapapa supporting her as she seeks to better understand her equivocal identity.
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