Shiraz Sadikeen
awarded residency at Gasworks London
Māpura tutor and artist Shiraz Sadikeen will head to London later this year as the newest Gasworks artist in residence.
Gasworks hosts sixteen residencies each year, one of which has, since 2016, been extended to a New Zealand-based, early to mid-career artist.
Shiraz makes paintings and sculptures that mediate their own conditions of production and reception. Often made using ready-made or found materials, as well as various processes of abstraction and formal displacement, Shiraz’s work explores the associations between these objects and the situations from which they originally derive.
During his residency at Gasworks, Shiraz will research the current political, economic and ideological circumstances of the United Kingdom, reflecting on its changing relationship to Aotearoa New Zealand.
The three-month, fully funded residency will take place from October to December and is made possible through the generous support of the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust, private individuals who contribute to NZ Friends of Gasworks, Emma Lewisham and the British Council Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.