Writing

BOOKS
Whetūrangitia, co-edited with Karl Chitham, The Dowse Art Museum, 2022

Janet Lilo: Status Update, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2016
Tau Tupua: The Spirits (editor), featuring writing by Vela Manusaute and images by Robert George and Toa Taihia, 2014

JOURNALS
Co-editor, with Lana Lopesi, of Marinade: Aotearoa Journal of Moana art, 2021-ongoing

CATALOGUES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Polynesian corpuscles: tracing migration through craft’, in Karl Chitham, Damian Skinner and Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai (Eds.), Crafting Aotearoa, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2020.
‘Measured by our hands’, Nimamea’a: The fine arts of Tongan embroidery and crochet, Objectspace anthology (forthcoming), 2017
The artist is not present, Reading, Walking, Writing, The Physics Room and ST Paul St Gallery, 2015
Voids and Veils, co-written with Karl Chitham, Lonnie Hutchinson: BlackBird, artist publication, 2015

ESSAYS
Re-routing Whakapapa: Jasmine Togo-Brisby and Making New Material Histories, The Vessel, 2020
Bring the Gods in: A response to TA’AI by Nina Oberg Humphries, The Physics Room, 2021
Beyond the Thing‘, Cushla Donaldson: The Fairy Falls, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
‘More membrane than wall; challenging boundaries in the work of Christopher Ulutupu‘, More than all the ocean between us, catalogue, Artspace, Australia, 2019
Visible Frontiers, invisible communities, WANTOK catalogue (forthcoming), 2018
Sister project: Asia Pacific Century, co-written with Emma Ng, lei-pā catalogue, 2017, pp. 15-17.
Chloe Rose Taylor: SuperValue, The National, 2017
Social Matter, guest curated by Louisa Afoa for Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, 2017
Handle with care, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2016
‘Cut + Paste with keyboard shortcuts’, Janet Lilo: Status Update, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2016
Exchange: a conversation with UNIFORM, produced as an independent publication by UNIFORM and published online by Blue Oyster Public Art Gallery, 2016
To and fro: a conversation with James Cousins, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2015
Empty slate / Blank vessel, Masterworks, 2015
John Vea’s talanoa, MTG Hawkes Bay, 2015
Object Shift, Objectspace, 2014
John Vea: Homage to the Hoi Polloi, Papakura Art Gallery, 2014
‘Small gardens’ in Talia Smith: Lead us outside, lead us out quietly, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2014
Sole Desire, Objectspace, 2013
A Space Between, Archipelago Series, Auckland Council, 2012
Occassions of Blikfang, Blikfang, Objectspace, 2012
Ubiquitous: Aspects of Contemporary Pattern, Objectspace, 2012
Not yet known, Kōtahitanga! Chalk that talk, walk that chalk!, Artspace, 2012

REVIEWS
Overlap and Unfurl (Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū), Circuit, 2022
Future Histories: A Review of Ā Mua, Pantograph Punch, 2020
Four Pacific Female Painters: A review of This is a library, Pantograph Punch, 2020
Layover review for Art New Zealand, winter issue, 2019
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Pacific Sisters at Te Papa, Pantograph Punch, 2018
‘A feeling for form: James Greig at The Dowse‘, Pantograph Punch, 2017

ARTICLES
‘Yuki Kihara: New Guises’ in Artlink, 40:2, 2020
Trojan Horses: Internships and Entering the Arts Pipeline, Pantograph Punch, 2020
Burning out the art scene, Pantograph Punch, 2019
If these walls could talk, they’d tell you my name, Wellington City Council Lighboxes, 2019
‘Culture beyond the archive’, a profile piece on artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Art News NZ, spring issue
‘I blame Judy Blume’, in OVER TIME, Public Share broadsheet, 2018
‘Plan to exit’, Femisphere journal, 2018
What we practise in private, Garland, 2017
Building the community (archive), Pantograph Punch, 2017
‘Celebrating the Pacific: the inaugural Honolulu Biennial’, Arts News New Zealand, Winter 2017
Make Space: The Rise of the FAFSWAG Art Movement, Art New Zealand, issue 158, 2016
‘Feeling welcome?’, co-written with Louisa Afoa, A Year of Conscious Practice, The Physics Room and Blue Oyster Public Art Gallery, 2016
‘Terms of convenience‘, un Magazine, issue 9.2, 2015
Close encounter: a meeting with the Queen (a series of interventions by Auckland-based artist Jeremy Leatinu’u), Art New Zealand, issue 154, 2015
Shifting the gaze (a profile piece on Angela Tiatia), Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust newsletter, 2013

BLOG POSTS
Colluding as curating, 2017
‘Crossing Paths in the Past‘, The Asia-Pacific Century, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2016

PUBLICATION PROJECTS
LOCALISE, co-produced with Lana Lopesi, Whau Arts Festival and Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2015
Unofficial, co-produced with Lana Lopesi with funding from Creative New Zealand, 2019