Join Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, Curator, Writer and Creator and Sophie O’Brien (Head of Curatorial and Learning, Bundanon) as they share insights into the works in The Polyphonic Sea.
Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow
Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow is a curator, writer and creator. Born on the Yarra, she currently lives on the Brisbane/Maiwar River. Whakapapa connects her across the waters to Ireland, England and the Hokianga, Aeotearoa, Ngāpuhi are her iwi, her hapu Te Hikuti and Ngāti Rangi.
Her curatorial projects include the major exhibitions ‘Air’, ‘Water’; ‘Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything’ and ‘Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images’ (as co-curator) at QAGOMA; and before this ‘Concrete’, ‘Liquid Archive’ and ‘The Ecologies Project’ at MUMA.
The Polyphonic Sea
The Polyphonic Sea presents the recent work of twelve artists from Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores the wealth of languages around us, from speech and writing, gesture and music, to the ongoing flow of communications from the natural environment.