Join Emily Hartley-Skudder for a floor talk about the Made in Palestine project, along with an informal discussion with esteemed art historian Liz Eastmond on the art world’s engagement with Palestine and the frequent censorship challenges surrounding it.

Liz Eastmond is an art historian and curator who lives on Waiheke Island. She taught at Auckland University’s art history department and later ran Tivoli, a gallery/bookstore. She co-developed the first paper on women artists in 1981 and curated and published on women artists including Frances Hodgkins and Alexis Hunter. A member of FAN (Feminist Art Networkers) in the 1980s, she co-edited the journal ANTIC and is a freelance writer and curator. Recent projects include the exhibition Bad Ambassador by the collective et al. (2022) and State of Palestine (2023).

Emily Hartley-Skudder is a Pōneke-based visual artist known for her paintings, assemblages and site-specific installations which delve into the artificial ordinary and faux domestic. She works with mass-produced everyday objects, often focusing on bathrooms, cosmetics and hygiene products and the strange ways in which we try to control our bodies. Emily has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Hons) from the University of Canterbury and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Aotearoa and internationally. She is represented by Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Ōtautahi.

Prints, fragrance and raffle tickets are for sale online for the duration of the exhibition, with all proceeds to Convoys of Good for families in Gaza.