Meg Doughty is a Visitor Host and exhibition technician at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. She holds an MA with distinction from the University of Canterbury. She is one of 10 Venice Attendants selected to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at […]

Giulia Naspi works for Christchurch Art Gallery, holding the dual roles of Visitor host and Tour Guide, and Visitor and Event Host. She one of 10 Venice Attendants selected to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the Venice Biennale. Attendants are […]

Fiona Pardington is one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed contemporary photographers. As well as exhibiting her work at institutions and biennials around the world, in 2010 she broke the auction record for a photograph by a New Zealand artist, selling […]

Fiona Pardington is showing her towering portraits of the country’s endangered and extinct bird life After the absence of its national pavilion in 2024, New Zealand makes its return to Venice with Fiona Pardington’s Taharaki Skyside, a major solo presentation by […]

For more than two decades, Pardington has been photographing taonga (Māori cultural treasures) and natural history specimens in museums around the world. In the South Canterbury museum, she was struck by a collection of stuffed native birds which had been […]