RM supports writing through our exhibition programme and our Archive Residency.  With this platform our aim is to encourage new dialogue around selected exhibitions, projects and events. We wish to enable conversations and further critical discourse of emerging artistic practices as well as provide the opportunity for experimental responses for writers.

a tornado, a table, a toothy togethering

val smith

An essay to accompany Invisible Neighbours by Beth Dawson, Charlotte Parallel and val smith.

2024

Nothing Essential Happens in the Absence of Noise

Georgina Brett

An essay to accompany A Dance But No Figure by Benjamin Ord, Salome Tanuvasa, and Uniform.

2024

Ragani and her nine wives

Dilohana Lekamge

An essay to accompany Ragani and her nine wives by Tarika Sabherwal.

2024

DUEL

Emile Boyle

An essay to accompany DUEL by Elijah Broughton.

2024

The Distance of Time

Emily O’Hara

An essay to accompany seuteu by Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky-M’Baye.

2023

Peephole Kaleidoscope – Sapphic Edition

Beth Clemens

An essay to accompany Forgotten Altar by Anna Sisson.

2023

Mycelial Chorus

Janine Randerson

An essay to accompany Hyphal Space by Jo Burzynska.

2023

Access, Emojis, Intonation, Oratory and Ugly-laughs On Lomiga Tasi: Folasaga Lona Lua … Ata Tifaga

Ashleigh Taupaki

An essay to accompany Lomiga Tasi: Folasaga Lona Lua … Ata Tifaga by Leitu Bonnici in collaboration with Alitasi Fatu, Denise Roberts and Moira Roberts. View the video.

2023

Kerning Exhibition Essay

Daniel John Pilkington

An essay to accompany Kerning, by Darcey Bella Arnold, Fernando do Campo, Sebastian Moody, Mitchel Cumming, Aaron Perkins, Emmalyn Hawthorne

2023

Prologue

Flora Feltham

An essay to accompany The room where your brother was born by Connah Podmore

2023

A response to Juliana Durán’s solo show Tropical Debris

Jonathan Barnett

A response to Tropical Debris by Juliana Durán

2023

Looking for sloughed skins

Misong Kim

An essay to accompany exuviae by Katrina Beekhuis.

2022

The Future of Dirt: A Response

Don Abbott

In response to The Future of Dirt by Wesley John Fourie, Taarn Scott & Hana Pera Aoake

2022

An Open Field

Grace Ryder

An essay to accompany Open-field by Zoe Tompson-Moore

2022

The Bodies of An

Emil Scheffmann

An essay to accompany Civic Balm by Iann An

2022

Home Sweet Home

Divyaa Kumar

An essay to accompany Home Sweet Home by Arapeta Ashton

2022

The slow knowledge of a gardener: On Lucy Meyle and Ziggy Lever’s Snail Time

Sophie Sutherland

An essay to accompany Snail Time, by Lucy Meyle and Ziggy Lever

2022

The Hardest Geometry Problem in the World

Theo Macdonald

An essay to accompany Surface Level, by Samantha Cheng and Hugo Primbs

2022

Sensible instability

Finn McCahon-Jones

An essay to accompany Sensible instability, by Hannah Valentine

2021

structure’s surface skin

Gabi Lardies

An essay to accompany Seven Islands by Antje Barke

2021

A Labour of Love

Ardit Hoxha

An essay to accompany No More the Fruit by Deborah Rundle.

2021

Pit-Vipers, The seedy underbelly of Crothall’s Heat Pits

Becky Richards

In response to Heat Pits by Grace Crothall

2021

THE KILLING; unspooling our cells so the party can start…

Samuel Te Kani

In response to Nuisance by The Killing

2021

The Gods of All Things

Eloise Callister-Baker

In response to In Searching of Deities by Yukari Kaihori

2021

Moving and listening in relation to trees and ‘A Wardian Case’

Bruce E. Phillips

In response to A Wardian Case by Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux

2021

Sun Room

Erin Lee

In response to Sun Room by Amelia French.

2021

as whenua holds/is held

Arielle Walker

In response to Matā by Ashleigh Taupaki

2020

Roads are big business

Tyson Schmidt

An essay to accompany All Roads by Matt Ritani.

2020

The plastic mafia

Sarah Mohawk

2020

The weight of things

Becky Richards

An essay to accompany The Weight of Things by Rebecca Steedman.

2020

Only My Dress Aches

Amber French

2019

Hatefucking

Simon Gennard

2019

Working Together Can Lead to a Miraculous Outcome

Virginia Were

A Review of I Lean You My Support by BENTLEY / MCNEIL / WALTON

2019

satellites

Huni Mancini

2019

It’s not a move it is a Transition

Just Speak Members

An essay to accompany It’s not a move it is a transition by Nicholete Brocchi.

2019

At the Apocalypse Party of the Rich

Erena Shingade

In response to Sometime, someday, when all is said and done by David Cooper, Claudia Dunes, Rainer Weston & James Wylie.

2019

The Entities

Luke Munn

An essay to accompany The Entities by Sarah Callesen and Shelley Simpson

2018

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Help us identify what is in our Archive! We have digitised many slides in our archive and invite participation to identify them. Please click here to access the collection.
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Our Boxed Archive
Since 2009 RM has been building an archive of material related to our exhibition and event programme. An index to the collection is available here.
https://www.rm.org.nz/thearchiverm/artist-boxes-index/

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