NEWS

I'm very happy to have been selected as the 2024 Artist in Residence. I'll take up the residency in Waitawa Regional Park from October until the end of November. The Auckland council press release can be found here

Pictured above with Auckland Council parks ranger Bryan Dowdle.

Air Index in London

Air Index is a project organised Rachelle Bussiēres (New York) opening in London this August. The Sky Prints part of this work was made in collaboration with artists from around the globe including; Svetlana Bailey (New York), Robert Canali (San Francisco), Vanessa Cowling (Cape Town), Kate van der Drift (New Zealand), Hannah Fletcher (London), Shaina Gates (Kittery), Martha Gray (London), Ramona Guntert (London), Natasha Harrison (Orlando), Daniel Hojnacki (Chicago), Nikolai Ishchuk (London), Constanza Isaza Martinez (London), Thomas Jenkins (London), Tamara Kalo (Beirut), Melanie King (Manchester), Alyssa Minahan (Boston), Sara Minsky (New York), Ng Hui Hsien (Singapore), Yvette Hamilton (Sydney), Armelle Tulunda (Paris), Yann Pocreau (Montréal), Izabela Pluta (Sydney), John Steck Jr. (Baltimore), and Katrina Stamatopoulos (London).

I contributed a couple of Lumen prints developed under Whāingaroa skies. Looking forward to seeing how they are installed together next month.

OPENING

Courtesy of Artsdiary

Some more images can be found here.

Interview with SAUCE magazine

The full interview can be found here

Landfall Journal

These images were taken in March 2023 when the road reopened after Gabrielle, during an extremely difficult period for those who live there. Taking photographs of land in Aotearoa can be problematic and standing with a camera is a questionable activity at a time like this, one that I don't take lightly, and I weigh up its necessity every time that I do it. I wasn't sure I wanted these photographs to be published when I took them, but as time went on, I think they are important enough to show and celebrate the resilience of Papatūānuku, while recognising the immensity and challenge of this event experience for the land and its people.

"...we observe Papatūānuku in a state of grief and the slow recalibration that occurs in the wake of this grief. We are witness to the tension between the redistribution of silt/whenua as severe erosion, combined with detrimental human-induced (toxic) elements. For many, this silt is a waste material that impedes the day-to-day functioning and productivity of the land—for others, the soil and silt are whenua, a treasured resource and taonga... Van der Drift urges us to look upon this earthly matter in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle and to witness the complexity and delicacy of the earth's tender healing." - Lynley Edmeades

Thanks Lynley and Landfall for the encouragement. Including essay by brilliant friend Joan Fleming and art by Ayesha Green.

OPENING OF SOUNDINGS

Images courtesy of Artsdiary: https://artsdiary.co.nz/167/3854.html

February 2023

CIRCUIT ARTIST MOVING IMAGE REVIEW OF LISTENING TO A WET LAND

To See Obliquely: Kate van der Drift’s Listening to a Wet Land by Alena Kavka

CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image Aotearoa New Zealand

2023

PHOTOFORUM REVIEW OF LISTENING TO A WETLAND

Andrew Clark reviews Listening to a wet land here.

Photoforum, 2022

OPENING OF LISTENING TO A WET LAND AT PAH HOMESTEAD

Exhibition photographs courtesy of Sait at Arts Diary

https://www.artsdiary.co.nz/166/3820.html

PUBLICATION LAUNCH
From things flow

2022

RM is excited to invite you to celebrate the launch of From things flow, a publication created as a companion to the exhibition of the same name. The publication includes an essay by Charlotte Huddleston in which she reflects and responds to the exhibition and related events, and texts by the artists Kate van der Drift, Teresa Peters, Shelley Simpson and Kathryn Tulloch.

From things flow is an openly relational project that thinks through things. It is an intentionally haptic engagement of thinking via the process of making, and it is made of acts of conceptual and ontological curiosity. Physically and speculatively engaging with material is a way to experiment, explore, and express something. It is also a way to be in communication with lively non-human bodies. Via the artists’ interest in materiality, processes, and temporality From things flow engages all of our senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, vision. It also has space for what lies beyond our human senses; for sitting with the potential in ontological indeterminacy to make space for conceptual creation. [Charlotte Huddleston, From things flow]

Held at RM in July 2021, From things flow was a collection of works, unravellings, experiences and events that queried the concept of agency both within and without our bodies.

The publication is supported through the RM publication and writing grants.

From things flow will be available to purchase at the launch for $30, cash or online transfer.

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From things flow
Texts by Charlotte Huddleston, Kate van der Drift, Teresa Peters, Shelley Simpson and Kathryn Tulloch
Designed by Kalee Jackson
Soft cover
Published by From things flow with support from RM and CNZ, 2022
96 pages
ISBN 978-0-473-61831-5
Edition of 100
Printed at SOAR
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

REVIEW BY NINA DYER IN THE ART PAPER

2022

INTERVIEW WITH MY ART

April 2021

https://myart.co.nz/story/artist-kate-van-der-drift/

OPENING OF EXHIBITION SWEET AND SOUR

Exhibition photographs courtesy of Sait at Arts Diary http://artsdiary.co.nz/154/3520.html

INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER WITH WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY NZ & AU

March 16th 2021 - March 19th 2021. Conversation with Virginia Woods-Jack https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMjMUkwjq0n/

SUMMER SOLSTICE GROUP SHOW 2020

On Thursday 15 Oct

WALLACE ART AWARDS 2020

Travelling finalist in the Wallace Art Awards. The exhibition of finalists is on show at the Pah Homestead September 2020 then will travel to Pātaka Museum, Porirua in December and then to the Wallace Gallery in Morrinsville in March 2021.

New Moon to New Moon, February 37°20'33.4"S 175°30'30.5"E , Chromogenic Photographs. Diptych

UXBRIDGE ESTUARY ART AND ECOLGY PRIZE - MALCOM SMITH GALLERY

Lucky winner of the 2020 Estuary Art and Ecology Prize with First Quarter Moon to Full Moon, May, 36°55'52.9"S 174°51'54.1"E, (Tāmaki Estuary) Diptych. 2020.

C-Type photographs from 4x5” colour negatives. More information about the prize and this work can be found here:

https://uxbridge.org.nz/events/eaa14-estuary-art-and-ecology-prize-2020/

https://www.times.co.nz/news/estuary-art-and-ecology-award-van-der-drift-wins/

REVIEW BY EMIL MCAVOY IN ART NEW ZEALAND MAGAZINE

Emil McAvoy has written an essay on Anne Nobel and I, in the latest Art New Zealand Magazine. Thanks Emil and Art New Zealand.

“While titles reference location co-ordinates and the passage of time, they also evoke the celestial realm, a quality echoed in the images’ nebulous glow. One might think of the photographs of interstellar space recently released by NASA. Here the liminal may also carry an associative dimension, speaking of thresholds between the visible and invisible, material and immaterial. The artist’s swirly, murky palette of blues, indigos, violets, reds, pinks, earth tones, black and gold suggest there is a deeper presence to be encountered, and communicated, here.”

EXHIBITION OPENING DIRECTIONAL LISTENING: FLUVIAL FIELD NOTES

Courtesy of Sait at Arts Diary http://www.artsdiary.co.nz/135/3221.html

ONLINE EXHIBITION BY WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY NZ & AUS 2019

Thanks for including my work in this Christine McFetridge, Caroline McQuarrie and Virginia Woods-Jack.

https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/2019/10/13/everywhere-we-look

ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE 2019

D-PHOTO MAGAZINE 2018

Oct-Nov Issue. Thanks D-Photo magazine and Nina Seja for writing this review. “They’re not the spectacular, vaunted South Island landscapes that New Zealand is known for in the tourism media. Instead, van der Drift’s photographs are placid and impressionistic….Colors are muted and dusky in some photographs. In others, the palette is greens and rusty browns. There is something in the photographer’s work that is an antidote to modern life and its relentless speed and noise. Some art sparks; other decompresses…. Water Slows as it Rounds the Bend has accomplished a challenging task: it is at once restorative as it is a warning and judgment. The latter is not, however, didactic nor catastrophic. It depends on picturing the languid unfolding of nature doing what it does best, without us.”

2018 MELBOURNE ART FAIR

Featuring work from Meighan Ellis, Scott Eady, and Kate van der Drift.

02 August to 05 August 2018

AWARDED THE 2018 STONELEIGH NZ ARTIST GRANT

To make new work to be shown at the 2018 Melbourne Art Fair

REVIEW OF WATER SLOWS AS IT ROUNDS THE BEND 2018

By Nina Seji. Read it here. Thanks Nina

OPENING / WATER SLOWS AS IT ROUNDS THE BEND

Exhibition opening photographs courtesy of Arts Diary - thanks Artsdiary!

Here

UPCOMING SHOW - WATER SLOWS AS IT ROUNDS THE BEND

5.30pm JUNE 12- JULY 1ST 2018

AS PART OF AUCKLAND FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT SANDERSON CONTEMPORARY ART

FINALIST - THE WALLACE ART AWARDS 2017

The exhibition of the Wallace Art Awards finalists is on now at the Pah Homestead til November, will then travel to the Wallace gallery in Morrinsville and then down to Wellington.

ART NEW ZEALAND MAGAZINE

Auckland 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards by Edward Hanfling. Number 164 Summer 2017-18

ESSAY BY MARIA WALLS IN 20 ARTISTS AND 20 WRITERS 2017

Read it here. Thanks Maria

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

2017

EXHIBITION OPENING / SEA OF ECHOES

Thanks Lydia Harvey and Artsdiary for these photos. More - http://artsdiary.co.nz/102/2632.html

NEW WORK / SEA OF ECHOES

Opening 5.30pm 08 August to 27 August 2017

Sanderson Contemporary

SINGLE CHANNEL / 2017 AUCKLAND FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Group show called Single Channel on at the moment as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. Including Down by the River. A silver gelatine photograph made in the upper Amazon jungle (just after coming into contact with that pesky mozzy last year!) On the left is Talia Smiths work The Ruin III and on the right is Jude Broughan work Basic Dean I. PJ Paterson, Wendelien Bakker, and Olivia Blyth are showing works too and Meighan Ellis has a solo show on in the second room. On until 11th of June 2017

WORK IN ELEPHANT MAGAZINE

Essay by Charlotte Jansen, More Real Than The Real Thing Elephant Magazine Issue 28 Autumn 2016, London.

Read it here: https://elephant.art/real-real-thing/

GROUP SHOW / LANDSCAPE

Photo by @artsdiary.co.nz. Thanks artsdiary it's nice to see how these two look together from afar 💨
Everything Returns to the Sea 2014 (left) and Otepoti Peninsular August 2015. At Sanderson contemporary