Emily sits barefoot on a barnacle-covered rock on the beach. Looking into the camera Emily looks peaceful and serious. There is an illustration of a character outlined in white sitting on the beach behind them.
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Emily Parr

Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā) is an artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand). Her moving-image practice weaves through time and space, exploring systems of relation emerging from Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

Writing & podcasts featuring Emily Parr

A delicate patchwork fabric of slight translucency is dancing in the wind in front of a rocky landscape.

A Conversation with Arielle Walker and Emily Parr

InterviewUiuinga
By Thomasin Sleigh · February 2, 2022

Parr and Walker explore the history of settler and Indigenous relations in Aoteroa and expand the metaphor of whatu (weaving)—through relationships, time, whenua, objects, and images.

A Conversation with Arielle Walker and Emily Parr

CIRCUIT is the
leading voice
for artist moving image
practice
in Aotearoa New Zealand,
distributing works,
critical review and
dialogues
which reflect our unique, contemporary
South Pacific context.

Ko CIRCUIT te māngai
mō ngā mahi toi kiriata
o Aotearoa, e tuku
atu ana i ngā mahi toi,
i ngā arotakenga
me ngā whakawhitinga
kōrero e kitea ai
ngā āhuatanga
motuhake o tō tātou noho i te ao hou ki
Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.