Crit sessions: Liam Philp

Experience a series of public crit sessions presented as part of the exhibition CRIT: Art Learning Since 1987. This session features artist Liam Philp, who will present works-in-progress for live critique and discussion.

Audiences are invited to observe and participate as artists, curators, students, and visitors come together to discuss ideas, process, and artistic development.
The sessions offer an opportunity to gain insight into how artworks evolve through conversation, reflection, and feedback, while experiencing critique as an open and collaborative exchange.

This crit will be hosted by Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator Matthew Hanson and Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Taiwhenua Curatorial Intern Emily Lyall.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This event is free.
This event is held in the gallery at Artspace Aotearoa.
This location is accessible.
Light refreshments will be provided.

BIOGRAPHY

Liam Philp was raised in Whakatū Nelson and now lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, where he is completing an MFA at the University of Auckland. His ongoing thesis project explores the legacy of the ‘frontier’ as an agent of history and a subject of historical representation in Aotearoa, examining the settler museum as a cultural artifact. Philp’s photographs document the fantasy that emerges from the gap between the symbolic content of these sites and the historical reality of colonial settlement. Approached as found objects through the logic of ‘objective chance’ and re-encountered in the darkroom, the images exist as manifest symptoms of an unconscious desire vis-à-vis their subject.