Booth 12
Seven of our cutting-edge MARS Gallery (Booth 12) stars are landing on Aotearoa! With our show The New Now, these innovative voices each speak to our global present.
Telly Tuita
New Zealand-based Tongan artist Telly Tuita presents bold new performative photography and painting that reimagines the figure of Mai, the first Polynesian to visit Europe. Navigating diaspora and cultural memory with his signature ‘Tongpop’ style, Telly’s performative photographs and paintings mark the next chapter in a practice redefining neo-Pacific art.
Kenny Pittock
Uncovering unexpectedly poetic everyday moments, Kenny Pittock uses ceramic to memorialise discarded shopping lists found in Auckland and Wellington. Kenny finds both the humour and the human in the seemingly mundane—collecting and recasting these discarded moments, these hand sculpted ceramic shopping list sculptures are an intimate time capsule, creating a permanent tribute to a fleeting moment. Despite their anonymity they’re extremely intimate, providing a unique insight into the people we pass in the aisles.
Join Kenny for an artist talk on Friday 1 May from 11:30am to discover how his fascination with discarded shopping lists evolved into a series of intimate ceramic sculptures.
Miranda Hine
Following a sell-out presentation at Sydney Contemporary 2025, Brisbane-born, London-based Miranda Hine debuts at Aotearoa Art Fair with Things in the canal from my walks, a reflective painting series drawn from her photographic archive. Moving between bucolic and gritty, Miranda uncovers patterns linking disparate moments, continuing her investigation into forms of cataloguing and curating experiences of the world as a way of making sense of it.
Tony Lloyd
Tony Lloyd’s body of oil painting landscapes, Deep Time, emerges from New Zealand’s South Island, from Arthur’s Pass to Fiordland. Immersed in monumental landscapes, Tony translates encounters with scale and immense geological time far beyond the human scale.
The Huxleys
Across photography, costume and performance, globally celebrated artist duo The Huxleys use their arts practice to champion joy as a radical act, two queer flowers blooming in a dark world.
The Huxleys will feature with performances throughout the fair, including Opening Night at 7pm Thursday 30 April and a roaming performance on Friday 1 May, 2pm–4pm.
On Friday 1 May 12:30pm, step into the world of the Huxleys as Will & Garrett share insight into their vibrant photographic practice with an artist talk on the MARS stand.
Installation Section—Atong Atem
Atong Atem will be featured in the Aotearoa Art Fair installation section with her monumental piece A Facet for Every Turn, a hanging photographic self-portrait reflecting on documentation and archiving as a cultural practice. On the booth, Atong shares captivating new work from her major new series drawing on the Rider Waite tarot deck, using photography to develop the artist’s ongoing exploration of family, lineage and mythology.
MARS Stockroom—Featuring Kohl Tyler
Alongside our main presentation will be a secret stockroom world of new ethereal ceramics by 2026 NGV Rigg Design Prize finalist Kohl Tyler. Amidst Kohl’s striking ecological forms are stunning works by MARS artists Jenna Lee, Scotty So, and Dani McKenzie.
Together, these MARS artists form a dialogue with our contemporary moment—globally fluent and urgently attuned to The New Now.
