The Chalkboard Hand: Performative Drawing Practice From Māpura Studios

The Chalkboard Hand: Performative Drawing Practice From Māpura Studios

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The Chalkboard Hand presents drawing as both a trace of an innovative, fluid creative process and an act of world-building....

By Mapura Studios

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Sunday, April 27 · 8am - 4pm NZST

Location

The Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead

72 Hillsborough Road Auckland, Auckland 1042 New Zealand

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  • Free venue parking

Min Ji Baik | Trevor Bull | Harish Harish | Madeleine Wilson | Avtar Singh | Rene Astle | Michael Pere

The Chalkboard Hand presents drawing as both a trace of an innovative, fluid creative process and an act of world-building—a means of aligning the external world with the lived experiences of artists whose perspectives often challenge neurotypical norms. It captures the essence of drawing as a performative act, one that re-orders the world through movement, memory, and mark-making to align with the artist’s lived experience.

Featuring six Māpura Studios artists with divergent and performative drawing practices, this exhibition expands the boundaries of social memory, world-building, and the interplay between cultural consumption, reading, and writing.

With this exhibition, audiences are invited to consider otherness not as a limitation but as a powerful, generative space for creativity and transformation.

Please join us for the Opening Event: Tuesday 29th April 5.30 – 7.30pm

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The venue is fully accessible, parking and toilets.

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Mapura Studios

Māpura Studios (formerly Spark Centre of Creative Development) is a creative space and art therapy centre located in central Auckland. We offer art classes and art therapy programmes for people of all ages living with disability and diversity, as well as the wider community.

We provide a professional service in person-centred visual arts learning, creative therapies, and arts practice – and maintain an extensive exhibition calendar for our artists.

Māpura Studios is an independent organisation, administered by Panacea Arts Charitable Trust and funded by grants and programme fees.