✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Curator and writer Emma O’Neill looks at the work of 12 Aotearoa artists in the exhibition ‘The Polyphonic Sea’, at @bundanon in the Dharawal Country of south eastern Australia. Read it here in full: contemporaryhum.com/writing/…

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✧ TORONTO ✧ Running from 07—17 September, this year's @TIFF_NET includes the world premiere of two films from Aotearoa talent: 'The Convert' by #LeeTamahori & 'Uproar', directed by Paul Middleditch & Hamish Bennett & co-written by Sonia Whiteman. contemporaryhum.com/calendar…

✧ NEW on HUM ✧ poet & musician daniel ward writes a letter to artist Ella Sutherland about her @CreativeNZ Berlin Visual Arts Residency at #KünstlerhausBethanien, continuing the commitment to queer storytelling deep within Sutherland’s practice. tinyurl.com/hum-dear-ella

✧ LILLESTRØM, NORWAY ✧ From 19 Aug—24 Sept 2023, #NitjaCentreforContemporaryArt presents ‘Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space’, a series of bold quilts by artist Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa (Ngāti Porou). 'Te Whare Pora' will open at #SámiDáiddaguovddáš from Oct 2023—Jan 2024.

✧ OPPORTUNITY IN MUNICH ✧ Applications are open for the 2024 #Schmuck and #Talente jewellery exhibitions, as part of the International Trade Fair in Germany! Submissions close on 1 October 2023. More info: hwk-expo.de/#/expoOverview

CONGRATULATIONS to Denise Batchelor (Hokianga-based) and Nick Paulsen (Whakatū Nelson-based), who received honourable mentions for their images at the @iphoto_awards

✧ NEWS ✧ Aotearoa will not have a dedicated pavilion at the 2024 #VeniceBiennale, although @CreativeNZ has stated that a national pavilion is planned for 2026, 2028 & 2030. Caitlin Devoy & Areez Katki will be participating in the 2024 collateral event Personal Structures.

✧ GIFU ✧ Japan's Gallery Crossing presents ‘I’m at the river, I’ll meet you by the sea', the first solo exhibition by Ōtepoti Dunedin-born artist Grace Mirams. On from 06 - 20 August , with an artist's talk on Sunday 06 August. More info on HUM: tinyurl.com/Gracemirams

Spend time this #Matariki weekend getting to know Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole's artwork 'Wharenui Harikoa'. View the digital version of their crochet Marae through the app: isparx.group/work/wharenui-h… Mānawatia a Matariki!