Galleries of Maoriland by Roger Blackley

Since returning a bit more than 4 years ago from Europe, where I lived for more than 15 years, mainly in France (where I spent 7 years in higher education with no student debt), my ideas about art and culture have changed considerably. She was a successful reading specialist, author of internationally published children’s readers and the leader of our matriarchy. My father’s mother was perhaps my most influential family mentor. I come from a family of craftspeople and social critics and have been especially privileged in many ways. My mother was a social worker and my father a furniture maker and philosopher. Writing about art and about specific artists work, is something I gain huge satisfaction from.įor those of you who don’t know me, I grew up in the Wairarapa, in Masterton. I've written several other texts, notably about NZ pakeha artist Roger Mortimer (catalogue currently in printing phase) so please contact me if you want to read more. Each of them provide theoretical context and other details about my approach to and philosophy of art. The most recent one is a project I wrote for an interdisciplinary exhibition about the destiny of the Human, in Berlin, in 2021 called 'Becoming Human'. One is in fact a talk I gave at a the University of Auckland Art History conference in Auckland in 2019 and another, an article I published in a book with a group of other artists and social scientists also in Auckland, in 2018.

Please find below three examples of my writing.

Galleries of Maoriland by Roger Blackley