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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.

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Emily Parr on CIRCUIT · 8 works

An orange cloudy sky at dusk, at the bottom of the frame read the words "Today you and the moon share a name. And we are getting closer to its fullness, e hoa, a light I think we all need. I wonder what phase of the rāhui we will be in then."

Emily Parr / Arielle Walker

Mahuru (2021)

A visual diary of experiences and whakaaro, captured during the 2021 Covid-19 rāhui in Tāmaki Makaurau.

City & urban·
Environment·
Duration·
Feminism·
Landscape

Mahuru

A dry grassy field with large green trees in the distance. An outline drawing in white of a group of people and a tent is super-imposed.

Emily Parr

Through the time spiral: Te Muri (2021)

A video revisiting camping trips made by the artist's family to a small bay on the Mahurangi Peninsula during the early 1900s.

Rural·
Memory & Dream·
Family

Through the time spiral: Te Muri

An orange sky at dusk with silhouetted trees. At the bottom of the frame read the words "I read about how the stream was once a place for washing flax garments and preparing fibres to make nets, ropes and kākahu with."

Emily Parr / Arielle Walker

tōu tauira me tōu kaiako hoki (2021)

A visual diary of experiences and whakaaro, captured during Matariki.

Duration·
Environment·
Family·
Nature

tōu tauira me tōu kaiako hoki

A crescent moon is framed between bare tree branches under a clear sky at dusk. At the top of the frame read the words words "I love that in its shadow, the spaces between those relation threads come to life. I see this latticework everywhere now, like whakapapa; like the vā."

Arielle Walker / Emily Parr

Whiringa-ā-Nuku (2021)

A visual diary of experiences and whakaaro, captured during the 2021 Covid-19 rāhui in Tāmaki Makaurau.

City & urban·
Environment·
Feminism·
Landscape·
Memory & Dream

Whiringa-ā-Nuku

Writing & podcasts featuring Emily Parr

A white outline of a colonial homestead is superimposed over an image of verdant bush

Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla

Tuhinga roaEssay

By Hana Pera Aoake · September 29, 2024

Hana Pera Aoake explores the poetic and generative role of whakapapa—a means of creating layers—in Emily Parr's Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla (2021).

Emily Parr's Time Spiral

This side or that side, or almost. Standing by

Tuhinga roaEssay

By Alys Longley · July 10, 2022

This side or that side, or almost. Standing by is an online exhibition of three video works by Richard Orjis, Emily Parr, and Janaína Moraes, accompanied by an essay by Alys Longley.

This side or that side, or almost. Standing by

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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.

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me ngā whakawhitinga
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ngā āhuatanga
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