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Janine Randerson, Rachel Shearer, Stefan Marks & Ron Bull
15th September
2023
Osmologies | Scent Writing
Jo Burzynska & Robyn Maree Pickens
2nd September
2023
Osmologies | Interactive Olfactory Artist Talk
Jo Burzynska
22nd July
2023
Ka kore, Kua kore | Pī
Aidan Taira Geraghty
11th July
2023
Ka kore, Kua kore | Paper-making with Moewai Marsh
Moewai Marsh
11th July
2023
Ka kore, Kua kore | Artist Talk
Aidan Taira Geraghty & Moewai Marsh
28th June
2023
Pieces Spaces Species | Some Meetings & Ends
Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye, Lucy Hill & Taarn Scott
27th May
2023
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Current Exhibition: Whorl by Stacy Cooper & Ava Trevella
Current Exhibition: Whorl by Stacy Cooper & Ava Trevella

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Taarn Scott
23rd May
2023
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Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye, Lucy Hill & Taarn Scott
18th May - 19th May
2023
The Blue Oyster Artist Run Gym | Closing Party
E-Kare, Samantha Mitchell, Harrison Freeth & Anna-Marie Mirfin
15th April
2023
Dance Class with E-Kare
E-Kare
25th February
2023
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Madison Kelly
18th February
2023
toko by and by | Artist Talk
Madison Kelly
11th February
2023
toko by and by | Field Drawings workshop
Madison Kelly
4th February
2023
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The Company | Artist Talk
Sam Clague
4th December
2022
Kia ora Whaea | Exhibition talk & Squidgy Moths Workshop
Kate Stevens West, Emma Kitson, Alix Ashworth & Caitlin Rose Donnelly
17th September
2022
Workshop & talanoa with ′Uhila Tu′ipulotu Nai
′Uhila Tu′ipulotu Nai
23rd August
2022
Matairaki guided walk
Moewai Marsh, Antony Deaker, Megan Brady & Ana Iti
10th July
2022
Tomorrow is Today Now: Artist Talk with Deborah Rundle
Deborah Rundle
29th June
2022
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Kahurangiariki Smith
19th June
2022
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Vicki Lenihan
7th May
2022
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Past Event

Performance Lecture

Wenerei 1 Tīhema -
Tāite 7 Āperira

Wednesday 1 December -
Thursday 7 April

2021 - 2022

Online

Performance Lecture title written in red pen over a yellowed first edition book page

Image courtesy of the artist.

Tāmaki Makaurau based practitioner Peter Simpson reflects on ideas within his exhibition, Literature’s arrival to the Pacific, on show until Saturday 4th December.

Using a first edition copy of A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, During the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5, Georg Forster, 1777, Peter Simpson has produced an exhibition that follows the arrival and development of European forms of poetics, science and history in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.

Q&A: Please send us an email (admin@blueoyster.org.nz) with your questions about Literature's Arrival to the Pacific.

Peter Simpson

Peter Simpson was born in Pōneke of Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāti Tamaterā, Indian and Pākehā descent. 

He completed an MFA at the Slade School of Art, University College London in 2019, was a participant within the Maumaus ISP programme 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, and completed a BFA at the Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London in 2013. He lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau. 

Recent exhibitions include; Te mātauranga ō te Pākehā (The knowledge of the Pākehā), Mayfair Art Fair, NZ, 2020, Slade Degree shows, Slade School of Art, UCL, UK, 2019, Olaf is an Indigenous name, Lacuna, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019, A retreat in time, Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, UK, 2017, EBC003, with Francis Loyld-Jones, East Bristol Contemporary, UK, 2016.