The Harvest
Featuring Tobias Allen, Elvis Booth-Claveria, Jack Ellery, Kat Lang, and Aroha Matchitt-Millar.
Aotearoa Art Fair, 1–4 May 2025.
Image credits:
Photographers: James Dobson, Sebastian Lendenmann, Connor Ward
Stylists: Jess Scott, Ys Blue
Art direction: Samuel Mark Clyma
Clothing: Bizarre Bazaar (Banshee, George Park, Astro Princess, Spitsubishi, Pig Suit), Gloria, GmbH, Jimmy D, JPG
Tobias Allen is an artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. They completed their BFA(Hons) from Massey University in 2021, and are currently pursuing an MFA at The Glasgow School of Art. Working in performance, photography, video and sound, Allen’s work examines broad and difficult relationships between death, queerness and the body, with a focus on the deep-set emotional states to be encountered therein.
Elvis Booth-Claveria‘s practice expands through choreographic and performance-based video as well as sculptural and installation considerations. Looking to reconcile queer identity, body-environment relationships, and organic materiality. Jack Ellery is a multimedia artist currently exploring embodied performance, moving image, audio, sculpture and installation. Oscillating between immersion and detachment, Ellery aims to unpack human/nonhuman entanglements by embracing the body as an active agent of meaning.
Kat Lang is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their practice indulges a socially relational realm, using the memetic recontextualisation of physical and cultural material to talk through social space. Lang has focused their engagement in gallery context on amputating space, privileging immersive and auto-destructive art, rather than stand-alone objects. Lang constructs with an intent to pull at the threads of failure, meaning/meaninglessness, the sensory and its emotional appendages and the harvesting of sentimental data.
Aroha Matchitt-Millar (Ngāti Rangitihi, Te Whakatōhea, Tūhoe) is a multidisciplinary artist with strong foundations in contemporary jewelry and ranranga. Her work is influenced by the practices of her tīpuna, intrinsically passed down through whakapapa.
