Tia Ranginui, Taniwha, from Tua o Tāwauwau/Away with the Fairies, 2020, archival print on Hahnemühle Photo-Rag paper. Courtesy of the artist
On 30 April 2019, Belgian couple Arthur Buerms and Eugénie Coche set foot in Aotearoa with the purpose of launching “The Nomadic Art Gallery”, an art gallery on wheels, which also gradually became a moving public artwork. After two successful crowdfunding campaigns through Boosted, supported by Kent Gardner and the Arts Foundation, the pair, with its background in art research/curation, law and project-management, hit the road in January 2020. One year later and thirty-six thousand kilometers further, this hybrid space, connecting more than 200 artists, is now a temporary sculpture to be visited at the Connells Bay Sculpture Park on Waiheke Island, where John and Jo Gow unravel this project, echoing far beyond the borders of New Zealand...