Exhibitions and Events, Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library

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Every Thursday at 11am (tours are 50 minutes)

Join one of our friendly guides and learn about the Hocken. Check out the amazing materials in our archives, ephemera, maps, music/AV, photographs, pictures and published collections. Bookings not required. Limit of 10 people per tour. Tour starts at Hocken reception.

Current exhibitions

Radicant

Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Radicant, 2024, photo courtesy of the artists.

An exhibition by Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Frances Hodgkins Fellows 2024.

Radicant creates an opportunity to observe our own expectations and preconceptions of plants and consider our reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human world. The exhibition invites us to look and listen carefully, both when experiencing the artwork in the gallery and in the vegetal world outside.

This exhibition celebrates Bellamy and Fauteux’s Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. A highly anticipated aspect of the annual Hocken exhibition programme, Radicant acknowledges the Fellows' year-long engagement with Ōtepoti Dunedin’s close-knit creative community.

Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux are partners and collaborators who share time living within the traditional territory of Mi’kma’ki, known as Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, and in Ōtepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand). Through interdisciplinary outcomes, their work considers human entanglements with other animals, plants, fungi, and minerals, and is informed by site-specific research. They have exhibited their work in Aotearoa, Canada, and the USA. They were the 2024 Frances Hodgkins Fellows at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka the University of Otago in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.

This exhibition will run from Saturday, 15 February to Saturday, 26 April 2025.

Upcoming events

Artist talk with Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux

Saturday, 8 March, 11am-12pm
Hocken Seminar Room, Hocken Collections, 90 Anzac Ave, Dunedin
All welcome. Free to attend. No booking required.

Artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux will introduce Radicant, an exhibition developed during their Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka the University of Otago. This talk, held in the Hocken Seminar room, will introduce their previous collaborative exhibitions and contextualise their practice with a slideshow. This is an opportunity to hear the stories behind the works in Radicant and learn more about the artists and their collaborative practice.

The exhibition will be open before and after the talk (usual Saturday hours, 10am-4pm) for visitors to enjoy. All welcome, bookings not required.

Copies of Miranda and Amanda's Fellowship publication, also titled Radicant, will be available for purchase.

Contact Hope Wilson, Curator Art with enquiries.

Email hope.wilson@otago.ac.nz

Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (installation view), Calystegia silvatica (convolvulus), glass, plastic, cork, soil, water, light, 2025. Image courtesy of the artists.
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (installation view), Calystegia silvatica (convolvulus), glass, plastic, cork, soil, water, light, 2025. Image courtesy of the artists.
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (installation view), Calystegia silvatica (convolvulus), glass, plastic, cork, soil, water, light, 2025. Image courtesy of the artists.
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (installation view), Calystegia silvatica (convolvulus), glass, plastic, cork, soil, water, light, 2025. Image courtesy of the artists.
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (installation view), Calystegia silvatica (convolvulus), glass, plastic, cork, soil, water, light, 2025. Image courtesy of the artists.
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Pavilion (installation view), Calystegia silvatica (convolvulus), glass, plastic, cork, soil, water, light, 2025. Image courtesy of the artists.