Writing - MARY MACGREGOR-REID

Barry William Hale is an artist whose works I have admired for many years.

This past March my husband and I spent a month in Italy which was something we had been trying to do for the past 7 years.

Transcript of my talk for the NZ Skeptics and NZARH Conference, November 2024 This was a challenging presentation as it was given to a large room of people who, aside from the organisers, had little to no knowledge of the subject matter and also little in…

I first came across Spare in the early 90s through a couple of bands who were influenced by him - Coil and my favourite band Fields of the Nephilim who even have an album named after Spares first publication “Earth:Inferno”.

“…access to spiritual life always entails death to the profane condition, followed by a new birth”.

“What must be painted is not the visible, but that which was regarded as invisible, namely what the clairvoyant painter sees” - Umberto Boccioni, Italy, 1882-1916, Futurist In a dim world before it’s day Above the silent waters Self propelling, radiating…

I've been trying out some ideas on a new project where I am shooting both outdoors and at night - two with which I'm completely unfamiliar.⁠

A brief history Hilma af Klint was born in Sweden in 1862 into a fairly middle class family.

The exhibition is called All That Was Solid Melts and is a very well curated by Juliana Engberg.

I finished reading Amy Hale's excellent biography of Ithell Colquhoun a couple of weeks ago (Hale, A (2020) Genius of the Fern Loved Gully: The Super Sensual Life of Ithell Colquhoun Strange Attractor Press, London: England).

I use plenty of symbolism in my work but generally I don't like to be too explanatory or didactic with it.

Jess Johnson and Simon Ward "Terminus" Tauranga Art Gallery 2019 A VERY overdue post as I went to see this show at Tauranga Art Gallery this time last year!

The Sublime is not strictly speaking something which is proven or demonstrated, but a marvel, which seizes one, strikes one, and makes one feel.

The demiurgic dreams of metallurgists and alchemists.

Just when I was getting into finding out about the contemporary Western relationship to esotericism and the occult, a friend sends me a selection of facebook screenshots he thought I might enjoy.

"To haunt does not mean to be present...".

A sense of loss for a future that never wasLately I've been revisiting some musical projects I enjoy and discovered that they fit into the genre of 'hauntological music'.

Although my work hasn't focussed on modern socio-political currents in any obvious way, these topics are something I read and think about a great deal on a day to day basis.

“In the ash that lies at the bottom of the grave, there lies the king’s diadem…”

Last Saturday I attended a perfume workshop at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki taught by Samantha Copland of Perfume PlaygroundI've been using scent on and off in a my work to create an immersive environment, speaking to the kinds of all-encompassing en…