Installation
Home Movies
Curated by Mark Williams and Laura Duffy


For one-day only, a New Zealand art trail in Newtown. 28 video works in 22 shops, businesses and cultural spaces. 

Home Movies was a one-day video art trail that took place in Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand on Saturday 28 September 2019. Inserting 28 artists into 22 shops, businesses and cultural spaces, Home Movies invited visitors to pick up a map from the local library and explore Newtown as a supportive space for minority communities, ethically-driven commerce and artistic production.

Taking place against a backdrop of Newtown’s rising housing costs and gentrification, the event sought to raise questions around how we imagine our communities in the future. Home Movies was curated by Mark Williams with Associate Curator Laura Duffy and presented as part of AURA Festival of Artist Moving Images with the support of Creative New Zealand.

Home Movies was made possible with the generous support of The Tip Shop, Habitat for Humanity, MEANWHILE, Kia Ora Newtown, Newtown Community Centre, Jared Corston, Martin Hanley, all participating venues, Opportunity for Animals, Newtown Library.

Sat 28 Sept. 10am—4.30pm Various venuesFree Admission

Featuring works by:
Gabrielle Amodeo 
Arapeta Ashton 
Lucy Aukafolau 
Denise Batchelor 
Louisa Beatty 
Anna Briner 
MD Brown 
Wai Ching Chan 
Madeline Cheng 
Laura Duffy 
Max Fleury 
Bryce Galloway 
Nathaniel Gordon-Stables 
Sam Hamilton 
Chevron Hassett 
Mike Heynes 
Caroline Johnston 
Lara Lindsay-Parker 
Raewyn Martyn 
Pippy McClenaghan 
Louie Neale 
Elisabeth Pointon 
Christina Read 
Emiko Sheehan 
Erika Sklenars 
Terry Urbahn 
Peter Wareing 
Aliyah Winter


Newtown in Wellington is the guinea pig for a planned annual festival of videos celebrating the country's most creative suburbs. The famously multi-cultural inner-city suburb is home to the arts agency, CIRCUIT, that's come up with the idea of a week-long AURA Festival of Artists Moving Image, where participants are invited to create and display work about their suburbs. Lynn Freeman talks with the Festival's Director Mark Williams and with co-curator, artist Laura Duffy. She also hears from contributing artists, Anna Brimmer and Max Fleury. The AURA Festival of Artists Moving Image starts on Saturday September 28 in Newtown.

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