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Sofia had a kōrero with Ayesha Green about her current exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Ruin on the Cascade, and her practice generally

She also chatted with Judy Millar and Kate Newby about their respective practices in light of their current joint exhibition at Michael Lett Gallery. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton joined Sofia in the studio to chat with Annie Guo and Summer Xia about Comedy Fest.

Whakarongo mai e te whānau x

Ruin on the Cascade is Ayesha Green’s (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) first solo exhibition with Season Aotearoa. 

The title refers to a faux ruin in Stowe Gardens, a Georgian landscape garden in Buckinghamshire established in the early 18th century by British army officer and Whig politician Richard Temple, the 1st Viscount Cobham. Using the Stowe Gardens as a framework, Green explores a range of subjects, including class, land use, knowledge systems, ethics, national identity, and British imperialism through her painting and sculptural practice. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Ayesha about Ruin on the Cascade, her research and thinking behind the works, and her practice as a whole

Selected works by Judy Millar and Kate Newby are currently showing at Michael Lett Gallery. 

Judy Millar is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her work is intensely physical, working with processes of erasure, wiping or scraping paint off the surface of the work and contrasting choices of colour to create a tension between the background and foreground. Taking up space, works by Millar are often large-scale, engaging with the body and her work in a space.

Kate Newby is a visual artist from Tāmaki Makaurau who lives and works in Floresville, Texas. Her work engages with a wide range of situations using every-day actions and materials in order to displace and challenge how contemporary art is exhibited, viewed, and archived. She manipulates, fires, and arranges elements from the natural world and built environment, creating site-responsive installations, often with projects drawing directly from the locations in which they are exhibited and the sites she works in. 

Sofia caught up with both Judy and Kate about their practices in light of the show. 

Dick Johnson phones into the studio to chat to Jonny about his new dancefloor-ready-banger In My Arms featuring The Peacekeepers.

Cam from Southbound Records brings in a collection of new musical releases, this week featuring Suprise Chef, Billy Nomates, and Chaos in the CBD!

Thanks to Southbound Records.

Featuring a chat with Dick Johnson about new music out today, Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke discussing the best basslines, Viewmaster with Litia, and a live-to-air with Joan As Policewoman, and From The Crate with Cam - thanks to Southbound Records!

Joan as Policewoman stops by the bFM lounge ahead of her show at Ray Freedman Arts Centre as part of her Aotearoa New Zealand Tour 2025!