Artist Talk with Robyn Bardas | Bone is Bone

Artist Talk with Robyn Bardas | Bone is Bone
May 30, 2026

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May 30, 2026
11:00 am
VENUE: 
Manaaki Nui
Free

Join us for an artist talk with Robyn Bardas (MFA), discussing her exhibition Bone is Bone. The talk offers an opportunity to hear directly from the artist and spend time with the thinking that underpins her work. This talk will be held in the gallery space where Robyn's work is currently being exhibited, and lasts 30minutes

Join us for an artist talk with Robyn Bardas(MFA), discussing her exhibition Bone is Bone.

Working across sculpture, video, and text, Robyn will share insights into the ideas and experiences that sit behind the exhibition. Drawing from her time living alongside her horses in Hāwea Flat, she will reflect on the role of observation, presence, and connection in her practice, and how these inform the works on display.

The talk offers an opportunity to hear directly from the artist and spend time with the thinking that underpins Bone is Bone.

Later in the day, Robyn will be leading a Classical Drawing Workshops from 1pm-4pm which anyone interested can read about and book here.

Robyn Bardas (MFA) is a Hāwea Flat-based artist whose practice is rooted in connectedness and the sublime in nature. Her long contemporary landscapes of the last ten years now give way to classical focused representational studies. Her recent work brings together sculpture, video, and text, shaped by ongoing classical study and close observation of the natural world.

No booking required. Free entry, all welcome.

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