Our beautiful current exhibition Tāmata by Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence and Geo Aroha Thompson-Skipworth is open till Sunday 24th of May.
Experience the artists’ making journey as you move throughout the gallery. Tāmata reflects on colonial displacement, cultural restoration, and Māori identity.
Thanks to Samson Dell for the photography @samsondell___
Aroha Mai for the ultra delayed posting ~~~ life gets busy
With the closing of our show 09 07 25 , here are some moments I’ll cherish 5eva ❤️
@physicsroom@aidantngeraghty
ngā mihi nui koutou for coming to @aidantngeraghty and I’s opening for 09-07-2025
The love is SO felt
Feeling very grateful to have Aidan and I’s works held with such love and care by @physicsroom
❤️
📸 @geothoski
Kia ora whānau
Kua tae mai a māua whakaaturanga
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I te whare toi o @physicsroom
Te 27 o Here-turi-kōkā, 2025
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09 07 25 is an exhibition with artists Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence and Aidan Taira Geraghty. An auspicious date on which the artists expressed a desire to get to know one another, prior to presenting their work. Their series of photographs stands in as documentation, of ground covered in their recent years, on truth, self-belief, and knowledge systems that are inseparable from their biography. The photographs identify particular strategies to unpack their genealogical connection to their family stories.
The āhua of the exhibition is a warm invitation to sit with their irreconcilable ideas about distance, accountability, inheritance, beauty and boredom.
Visual Spotlight: Bri Lawerence ✨
Bri (Ngati Kahungunu) is a photographer based here in Ōtautahi. Bri’s personal practice deals predominantly with her lived Māori experience of the everyday, through a documentary style of photography. These ideas transfer through to her professional practice as she connects with artists within her community. You may recognise her face and photography from gig nights, such as Queer Horizons. Bri’s love for the people and environments that surround her, influence her personal and professional practice.
1) Queer Horizons @queerrrhorizons
2) Queer Horizons @queerrrhorizons
3) Tī Kōuka
4) @tom.plum at @queerrrhorizons
5) @honeykbrown at Sapphicsound
6) @siligrl at @queerrrhorizons
7) Conjunction still
8) @siligrl at Sapphicsound
9) @d1sconnecteden3rgy at @queerrrhorizons
10) Kōwhai