Exhibition Opening

Saturday 18 May, 1pm

Michael Lett and Coastal Signs warmly invite you to join them, on the final day of the exhibition Mouvement des Malades, for a public conversation between artist Luke Willis Thompson and curator Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua.

The event will begin at 1pm at Michael Lett, 3 East Street, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Seating and refreshments provided.


Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua (Nofoali'i, Samoa; Guangdong, China; Pālagi) is a writer, curator and educator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Cameron is currently the Curator of Pacific Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

They have previously worked as Curator of Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT, and as a Professional Teaching Fellow at Elam School of Fine Arts Te Waka Tūhura. Their writing appears regularly in art publications both nationally and internationally.


Luke Willis Thompson is a Fijian-New Zealand artist who lives and works between London and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Luke graduated with an MFA Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland in 2010 and completed his Meisterschule at Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main in 2015.

Notable solo exhibitions include: Hysterical Strength, GAMeC, Bergamo (2019); _Human, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2018); Luke Willis Thompson, Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018); and autoportrait, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). Luke was awarded Aotearoa's Walters Prize for inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam (2013) and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2018 and won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2018 for autoportrait (2017).

Price

  • Free

Date

  • Sat 18 May

Time

  • 1:00 pm

Michael Lett

  • 312 Karangahape Road (entrance in East Street)
  • Auckland 1010