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watch: studio chats
Studio interviews about current and recent exhibitions, and artist talks
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2025, Jack Trolove and Stevei HoukAmau
Webbs interviews the two artists on mixing oil and water (and uku) in their upcoming show
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2022, The Dom Post
André Chumko speaks with Jack Trolove about how he’s created a space where paintings can be felt before being seen, in his new show up at Pātaka.
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2022, Art zone magazine
In the Bardo: feature article by Arthur Hawkes
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2022, Radio Active Interview
Harri Robinson chats with artist Jack Trolove to get the scoop on his new exhibition, opening at Pātaka next week.
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2022, RNZ Bookmarks
Jesse Mulligan speaks with Jack about some of his fave books, music, and things to watch. Radio New Zealand.
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2022, RNZ Interview
An artist spends hundreds of hours making a painting exhibition - only to have the gallery lights turned off. Jessie Mulligan speaks with with Jack about his upcoming show
Listen here
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2021, Pantograph Punch 'Unmissables’
Review by Tulia Thompson
“Jack Trolove’s stunning exhibition Keening is medicine for the months we've spent languishing in the second lockdown. “
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2021, NZ Herald/Guardian Manawatu
Manawatū Guardian’s editor, Judith Lacy, shares her thoughts on the opening of Keening at Te Manawa.
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2020, The Big Idea : moving matter
Feature by Dina Jezdic
“Since ancient times, people have worked with and worn other skins, literally and metaphorically. I think about paintings as being in these traditions, they’re these second-skins for us to feel through.”
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2021, out here, hardback book
Out Here: An anthology of takatāpui and LBGTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa
“Like the cover art – a heavenly splash of detail from the 2019 oil painting The Thick Skin of a Pronoun, by Jack Trolove – each bite-sized chunk is packed with flavour and texture.”
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2020, The Spinoff
Review by Tulia Thompson
“Mangrove tells stories of ebb and flow, resisting the settling place, finding the places in between. It is embodied, and abstract; passionate and sorrowful”
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2019, Art New Zealand magazine
Feature Review by Michael Dunn
“Tenderise proves to be, on reflection, a show of considerable depth and relevance. In it Trolove has evolved as a painter of substance as well as a virtuoso manipulator of paint.” Spring Issue 171
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2017, The NZ Herald
Interview with Jennifer Dan
12 Questions with Artist Jack Trolove
“He prepares for the studio like preparing for a marathon because the huge impasto oil paintings must be completed within three days before the paint sets”
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2017, Radio NZ Interview
Arts on Sunday’s Jim Mora speaks with Jack Trolove about the moment that changed his life. 18 mins.
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2017, The Big Idea Interview, September
Christine Mackintosh speaks with Jack about his upcoming show and the some of the challenges of making a living as an artist in Aotearoa
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2017, Architecture Now
Camille Khouri spoke with Trolove about his art, his studio in an old army barracks, and his Auckland exhibition.
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2017, Houses Magazine Feature
Culture Feature, September.
Link to come
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2017, Mindfood Magazine
Culture Feature, August.
Link to come
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2017, Habitus Living
Artist Feature, July.
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2017, NZ Herald Review, T. J. McNamara
“The impact of the exhibition when first stepping into the gallery is striking, and there is a sense of an intense urge to engage with the traditional possibilities of paint.”
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2016, Huffington Post, John Seed
Critic and arts writer, John Seed interviews Jack Trolove about his upcoming show Medicinal Skins, and life in general.
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2016, Fruit of The Forest, Federica Tattoli
Federica Tattoli, editor in chief of Fruit of The Forest, an Italian interdisciplinary arts magazine, interviews Jack about his art practice and upcoming show.
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2016, NZHG : Five kiwi artists who are going places
Warwick Brown’s ‘Art Collectors Alert’ article
“…the subjects struggle to emerge from great slathers of oil paint. His works seem abstract at first glance, then not quite so, and then the face of a man or woman suddenly appears as if by magic.”
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2016, Denizen Magazine, 'Young Artists to Watch'
Culture Profile and Feature, June
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2016, NZ H&G Magazine, Warwick Brown
Featured Artist profile by Warwick Brown, June
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2015, Review by Amy Stewart
“ Trolove’s technique allows him to paint between things, specifically between the exterior and the interior of people. The dynamism of his paint application gives a sense of movement and flux without rendering the subject unstable, in fact quite the opposite – they appear more balanced and complete in his renderings.”
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2015, Review, Tulia Thompson
The Opposite of Selfies
“What struck me about the paintings was their intimacy, and what they reveal about the self. Close-up, sometimes sleeping, sometimes uncomfortable or pensive, these are expressions and moments we don’t often see except for on the faces of lovers or spouses. These strangers have an intensified proximity to us, without the scaffolding we are used to in public spaces.”
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2010, Review, mark amery
Review of Ghost Paper in Eye Contact Magazine
“I like its openness and the way it sidesteps being polemical, whilst still provoking a response.”
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WATCH : studio chats
Interviews in the painting studio with Jack Trolove
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