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Séraphine Pick is one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated painters, with a career spanning 30 years in which Pick investigates human experience through the material language of paint. 

Her paintings circulate this tension between figuration and its collapse, often bringing the figure forth into her ethereal compositions and then dissolving them back into themselves.

This new body of work presented within Paintings continues Pick's exploration of material dissolution and figural density, displaying a rich navigation of material applications. Each work leans into its own materiality, some soft and delicate, while others thick and textural. An act of deep listening and responding to the paintings themselves, with pic circling back to former ways of making through a new lens.

Maya had a kōrero with Séraphine about the show and overall practice. 

Happy Rāmere e hoa mā! Today on show, Milly and Rosetta chat all things Ska for Travelling Tunes, Ninajirachi is up in studio for a kōrero about her new album + shows in Aotearoa, and Cam from Southbound chats about some of the new releases out on the shelves today for From The Crate! Whakarongo mai nei!

Today on Travelling Tunes, Dr Kirsten Zemke is chatting with us about all things Ska! 

Selections:

Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero (1985)

The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (1979)

The Skatalites - Guns of Navarone (1985)

Milly and Rosetta are fizzing to have Australian DJ and producer Ninajirachi up in the studio - chatting about her new album I Love My Computer, and shows with Nympho in Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Whanganui a Tara this weekend! Whakarongo mai nei!

Maya had a kōrero with artist Séraphine Pick about her current show Paintings, currently on at Michael Lett Gallery.

Sof had a kōrero with artist Kathy Barry about her exhibition We Went to the Edges of Time, currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery.

Whakarongo mai <3

We Went to the Edges of Time is a new solo exhibition by artist Kathy Barry currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery. 

Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Barry represented Aotearoa on the international stage at the 32nd São Paolo Biennal in 2016, and was selected in 2023 as the recipient of the prestigious C Art Trust Award. Her first substantial survey exhibition in a public installation, Energy Work, with artist Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, was curated by Christina Barton for Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery in 2022. 

In We Went to the Edges of Time, Barry has further explored the mode of making that has underpinned her practice since 2012, where she lets go of artistic agency, letting energy fields guide her watercolour drawings. 

Through a series of geometric mappings, the viewer is pulled into the energetic frequencies of Barry’s work and invited down a pathway of sorts to healing beyond familiar dimensions. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Kathy Barry about the exhibition, her process, and these ideas of relinquishing artistic agency.

Cam from Southbound is up for a chat about some of the stellar new albums out on the shelves today!

Selections:

3i0 - Born Slippy (Nuxx) (Jazz version)

Khaled Al Reigh - Zannik

Yaya Bey - Spin Cycle

Thanks to Southbound Records!

The legendary Lucky Lance is up in the bFM studio for a kōrero with Milly and Rosetta about Team Dynamite's forthcoming gig at Double Whammy this Friday! They've also just reissued their debut album Shepherd's Delight on vinyl - available at all good record stores from Friday August 22. Whakarongo mai nei!

Dreamy tracks from Fazerdaze, Bjork, Hanbee and Ethel Cain. Today Emma's joined by Zoe Walker Ahwa, editor and co-founder of Ensemble (which is celebrating its fifth birthday) and the two chat about the magic of indie media in Aotearoa.