Art Seminars Public Programme

Thursday 1 May  |  Jess Covell
Boosted Crowdfunding in Ōtepoti/Dunedin

Curious to learn why crowdfunding is increasingly becoming an important part of the funding puzzle for artists—how artists/creatives, at all levels of their career, are finding success with crowdfunding on Boosted? What is involved and what is it like to do a Boosted campaign? Since 2016, Boosted has partnered with the Dunedin City Council to provide support and mentorship to Ōtepoti creatives, helping raise over $350k for over 70 arts projects. Come and learn how Ōtepoti creatives can grow capability and reach through crowdfunding, which will ultimately enable artists to make more art for years to come!

Jess Covell is a mama of two, a graduate of the University of Otago (BA(Mus)), project director/curator and installation artist. She is the driving force behind Spectacle Dunedin, with a passion for facilitating and organising temporary happenings that celebrate and support arts and culture within Ōtepoti. Jess also runs a small venue, sits on the advisory panel for Dunedin Dream Brokerage and is the Ōtepoti Boosted mentor.
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Thursday 8 May  |  Ryan O’Malley
Printmaking on the Move

This lecture will feature Ryan’s experiences with US and global print cultures.
Ryan O’Malley is Professor of Art and Graduate Coordinator at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi. Born in Laramie, Wyoming, he received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of South Dakota and his MFA from Louisiana State University. As an artist, educator and member of the Outlaw Printmakers, his work has featured in numerous exhibitions, publications and collections in Canada, Estonia, Russia, Japan, France, China, Mexico, Italy, Latvia and Iran. His expertise is included in Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process, Second Edition, by Fick and Grabowski.

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Thursday 15 May  |  Ed Hanfling
Small Stuff

Towards the end of the first decade of this century, inconspicuousness became a conspicuous tendency in New Zealand art. Some of the bigger names doing small stuff were Patrick Lundberg, Raewyn Martyn and Kate Newby. This seminar reviews their work. It is also a draft chapter of a forthcoming book, provisionally titled Contemporary art in Aotearoa New Zealand 2000–2025—A Critic’s History.
Ed Hanfling is an art historian and art critic who teaches at the Dunedin School of Art. He has published books on New Zealand art and artists, including (as co-author with Gil Docking and Michael Dunn) 250 Years of New Zealand Painting (David Bateman, 2020), and articles in journals such as the Burlington Magazine and Third Text, and is the co-editor (with Hilary Radner and Mark Stocker) of a special issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies (No. NS38, 2024: Art and Aotearoa New Zealand: Cultures, Controversies and Histories). Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has written short critical reviews for the quarterly journal Art New Zealand. Ed is the editor and co-editor respectively of Scope: Art & Design and Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue.

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Thursday 22 May  |  Pam McKinlay
Flows Like Water: Under a Coal Charged Sky

Hā ki roto. Hā ki waho.
Breathe in, breath out. We are breath and we are water.
Mountain wilts, sheds her frozen tears in jagged turquoise beauty.
Flows like water, under a coal-charged sky,
shifting winds.
We weep by the Lake with no name.
You are the Land, we are nothing without you.

Pam McKinlay (Tangata Tiriti) is an artist-curator with a background in applied science and art history. As an artist she works in collaboration with other artists locally and nationally in community outreach and education projects about climate change, sustainability and biodiversity. She is the convenor and curator of the Art+Science series based in Ōtepoti Dunedin and a member of the Ōtepoti Dunedin Creative Impact Lab 2024. McKinlay has exhibited regularly in the Art+Science Project and touring exhibitions, and been shortlisted three times as a finalist in the New Zealand Contemporary Textile Arts Awards. Her writing has appeared in Scope: Art & Design, Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue and iand she has a chapter in press in Craft—the Hand of the Creator, Celebration and Revival (Springer). Last year a book on her work, Flows Like Water, was launched at an event to mark the UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin 10th anniversary.

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Thursday 29 May  |  Anne Noble / Lucy Hammonds
Unutai E! Unutai E!—Kāi Tahu and Anne Noble

In 2020 Kāi Tahu lodged a statement of claim before the High Court in Ōtautahi Christchurch seeking recognition of Kāi Tahu rakatirataka over wai māori, fresh water, within their takiwā. Gathering evidence to support the claim, Te Kura Taka Pini, the entity overseeing the claim, engaged photographer Anne Noble to create a photographic archive illustrating this environmental disaster, as well as the whānau, hapū and iwi fighting for wai māori, the recognition of rakatirataka and the survival of mahika kai practices that sit at the heart of Kāi Tahu identity. In this talk Anne Noble will discuss the kaupapa of the project, reflect on the challenges and delights of collaborative documentary practice and issues of ethics, authorship and ownership of images that arise. Lucy Hammonds will also talk about the importance of collaboration in exhibition making and community engagement.

Anne Noble is full-time artist and Professor Emeritus / Fine Art (Photography) at Massey University College of Creative Arts, Toi Rauwharangi. She is an Arts Foundation Laureate and received a New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to photography.
Lucy Hammonds is a curator at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Her curatorial practice extends across contemporary and historic art, craft and design with a focus on collaborative curatorial processes. Her recent projects include Unutai e! Unutai e! (2025), Mataaho Collective: Hautāmiro (2025) and Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills (2023-24).

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Thursday 5 June  |  Rob Cloughley
Residency report from the big country, USA

In this seminar Rob reflects on his visit to the USA last year, working in a group residency along with five other clay artists at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana USA. The Center supports professionally-minded ceramic artists to create new work. Rob will also discuss his visit to Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana, a relatively new sculpture park and the world’s largest by land area. Its large-scale outdoor sculptures are installed throughout the landscape by some of the world’s foremost artists and architects.

Rob Cloughley teaches ceramics at the DSA and is NZDAD Ceramics Diploma Programme Coordinator. His ceramic sculpture explores interpenetration of the organic and the industrial. Rob also makes pots and is a musician, gardener, sailor and grandparent.

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*Seminars can also be accessed online via this link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTU3Y2QyZTctNTIyZC00ZmZhLThkZDMtOTgwMzc4YTZjNGQw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22450e6824-88ab-4ad2-914d-b0f385da600c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2248906f9c-eee2-474e-acb8-7720ac92f8fc%22%7d.

For more information, contact Ed Hanfling ed.hanfling@op.ac.nz