“We’re spongy, we’re shifting," Kelly O'Shea, creative director of Dirt tells Mark Amery.
What does the future of the art gallery and the work of the art dealer look like? New gallerists are trying out new models in New Zealand, and they're not all based in Auckland. The last ten years has seen a lot of growth in not-for-profit spaces run by artists themselves, but this year in particular we've noticed a rise in the number of galleries opening up run by a new generation of producers, popping up in all sorts of spaces, including online.
Here are two very different examples: in Tauranga commercial gallery Sumer opened last week, headed by Daniel Du bern. And in Dunedin, Wellington and online, O'Shea has been running Dirt, with projects popping up in all sorts of spaces...
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