How Long Will This Take is Poached Galleries inaugural exhibition, showcasing the respective practices of Phoebe Mills, Jade Findlay, Jess Wilcken and Jasper Miller. The show brings together each of their practices like actors on the stage. Their artworks personify into characters performing beneath the lights. Various dialogues emerging between works, an unfixed narrative unfolding as one moves around the space. 

Maya caught up with two of the artists from the exhibition Phoebe Mills and Jade Findlay ahead of the exhibition.

Phoebe Mills is a Tāmaki-based multidisciplinary artist, whose work explores the notion of observing characters and symbols that arise out of her practice. Attempting to archive these players and their motifs  through various forms of engraving, drawing, casting and painting—an attempt that often seeps into the very disolution of their origins.

Jade Findlay is a Tāmaki-based artist whose practice is driven by the exploration of materiality, scale and installation. Seeking to insight a sense of play amongst the works, almost daring the viewer to touch—to physically insert oneself onto the work. Silicone, glass, steel, brass, wood, ceramic and plaster, a coming together of textural senses that are then placed into these depictions of  bodily processes teasing the viewer into the act of play.

Nova Paul (Te Uriroroi, Te Parawhau, and Te Māhurehure ki Whatitiri, Ngāpuhi) is a Tāmaki-based filmmaker, whose filmmaking practice weaves matauranga Māori and her Ngāpuhi whakapapa with early cinematic and experimental film processes. A materially led practice, Paul’s recent black-and-white 16mm films engage a process of hand-developing with plants, using the leaves of the rakau that are her film’s subjects to create a film developer. 

Her latest 16mm film currently showing at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Puawānanga, centres around the puawānanga plant both thematically and in the process of making the film itself. Adopting this almost collaborative process with puawānanga, Paul not only visually captures its blossoming within the film – its flowers dancing across the screen and with the wind – but lets the plant give us the image itself, as an act of surrender to the ngahere. What it produces are these beautiful physical imprints of the plant onto the film – the puawānanga etching its aesthetic footprint, creating this super textural element to the work and letting colour bleed through, creating these really beautiful soft blues that reveal themselves throughout, emerging out of the image and back into it – where filmmaking and spirit are intertwined vessels, as a window into revealing the mauri of the plant. 

Sof had a kōrero with Nova Paul about her film Puawānanga and her overall practice

Maya caught up with Phoebe Mills and Jade Findlay, two of the artists from Poached Gallery's upcoming group exhibition, How Long Will This Take.

And Sof caught up with Nova Paul about her latest 16mm film, Puawānanga, currently showing at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead. 

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