Underfoot

David Cox, D Harding, Ana Iti, Nicholas Mangan, Kate Newby, Birdget Reweti, Koji Ryui, Yasmin Smith, John Spiteri, Raukura Turei

underfoot is a group exhibition including works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from Aotearoa and Australia for which organic earth matter, whenua, is utilised in a range of poetic ways to quite literally give body and voice to the land. Connecting recent material enquiries by contemporary artists from the region, the exhibition emphasises a sentient, inextricable relation to earth through a spectrum of geological potentialities. Within increasingly desperate ecological contexts, underfoot draws on precolonial and speculative modes to engage a more reciprocal dialogue between us and the subterranean make-up of our home planet.

Presented in association with Auckland Arts Festival 2024.

9 March – 12 May, 2024

Tactile exhibition tour with curator James Gatt
Saturday 6 April, 10.30 – 11.30am

Panel discussion
Saturday 11 May, 11am-12pm