Layla Rudneva-Mackay is one of the artists featured in Artspace's annual new artists show. This year's version has been selected by three artist-led initiatives - Newcall, a gallery and studio programme run by a collective of recent Elam graduates; Fresh Gallery, a Manukau City Council initiative for contemporary Pacific art; and Dunedin's long running but difficult to pigeon-hole performance space, None. Recently appointed Artspace director Emma Bugden says the new approach aims "to disrupt the curatorial auteurship of previous years and render more visible the grass-roots organisations that build the contemporary art communities of tomorrow". You can read more about the exhibition and related Artspace programmes here.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, A wire to fire into his heart (2009), installation view, Artspace, Auckland NZ. Photograph by Sam Hartnell, courtesy of Artspace
