New Zealand Arts Review
Reviews, News and Commentary by John Daly-Peoples
The Europa Film Festival
John Daly-Peoples Europa Film Festival Bridgeway Cinemas, AucklandThu 19 Feb – Wed 4 March John Daly-Peoples The Europa Film Festival opens with Testament of Ann Lee, an ambitious musical drama that premiered in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, earning one of the festival’s longest standing ovations. Featuring a Golden Globe-nominated performance from Amanda Seyfried,…
Roberta Queiroga’s “In Between – It’s Still Me”
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Roberta Queiroga In Between – It’s Still Me Xhuba Gallery, 5 High St Auckland Until – 22 February Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Brazilian born Roberta Queiroga’s training as an architect appears to inform her art practice, bringing a nuanced understanding of space, rhythm, and materiality. Her architectural sensibility links gesture, energy,…
Slow Burn: Women and Photography
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau Lissa Mitchell Te Papa Press RRP $35.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau presents a range of photography by women and non-binary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand focussed on the1960’s to the present along with a few from the early part of the twentieth century. The…
Young writers, artists and curators get to this years Venice Biennale
Learning from Venice: A Workshop for Early-Career Artists, Curators and Writers, 25-29 May 2026, Venice Italy John Daly-Peoples The Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa (OCAA) has announced a new initiative “Learning from Venice”, a new professional development opportunity for seven early-career Aotearoa New Zealand artists, curators and writers to take part in an intensive five-day…
Royal NZ Ballet’s contemporary Macbeth
John Daly-Peoples The Royal New Zealand Ballet Macbeth Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch March 2026 John Daly-Peoples The Royal New Zealand Ballet open its 2026 season with a contemporary reimagining of Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most brutal tragedy. Created by internationally acclaimed choreographer Alice Topp (Aurum, Logos, High Tide), the ballet unfolds in a ruthless modern world shaped by political ambition, media manipulation and…
Auckland Arts Festival Previews – Julia Bullock, Bluebeards Castle and Sincere Apologies
John Daly-Peoples Julia Bullock, Bluebeards Castle, Sincere Apologies The New York Classic review last year featured a review of Julia Bullock by Rick Perdian “It would have once been almost impossible to imagine a vocal recital by a major artist with songs by Alban Berg, Bob Dylan, and Rodgers & Hammerstein on the program. These…
Auckland Arts Festival Previews – Visitors, Sultans Kitchen and Duck Pond
John Daly-Peoples Visitors A Theatre Times review by Bronwyn Carlson. “It is 1788, and six senior lawmen (with one young man sent as a representative) witness the arrival of the First Fleet. The play features a talented cast: John Blair, Damion Hunter, Colin Kinchela, Nathan Leslie, Leroy Parsons, Glenn Shea, Kerri Simpson. As we approach…
Niue’s Hikulagi Sculpture Park
John Daly-Peoples Niue’s Hikulagi Sculpture Park: A Global Microcosm Sited in the middle of the natural rainforest of the Pacific Island of Niue is a physically small but conceptually monumental installation / treatise on global environment concerns, the Hikulagi Sculpture Park. The Hikulagi Park was established in 1996 by members of the then Tahiono Arts…
Eddie Clemens’ new sculpture for Wellington
John Daly-Peoples Eddie Clemens Fibre-Optic Colonnade Car Wash Shed 21 Wellington John Daly-Peoples Another outstanding public work of art for Wellington City has been opened this week. “Fibre-Optic Colonnade Car Wash” created by Eddie Clemes is an ambitious new work of art for Wellington that will transform a pedestrian thoroughfare linking the railway station with…
Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Massey University Press RRP $37.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds have just launched “Wellington Architecture, A Walking Guide” their third book in the series of architectural walking tours following on from their books on Auckland and…
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