Artist Talk with Gail Hocking

5pm Friday 19 September

September 19, 2025

Gail Hocking

Gail Hocking

Through A Looking Glass Darkly  2024,

video still, (3 min 2 sec).

5pm Friday 19 September

Join us for an interesting and insightful talk with award winning video, sculpture and installation artist Gail Hocking. Gail will tell the story of her experiences during a recent lived climatic catastrophe in which the audible sound of the Earths P wave caused intense fear, panic and vulnerability. 

This experience led to the creation of this new body of work A Tremble, A Tug, A Telling – an immersive installation of moving image and sound that explores the complex entwinement between our bodies and nonhuman phenomena.

This is a free event with refreshments no bookings required, all are welcome.

Bio

Born and raised in Aotearoa’s Mountain terrain, Gail Hocking has a strong connection to the land and natural environments. Hocking’s research and artistic output centres on the relationship between human and nature or non-human beings, emphasising environmental concerns through a lens of empathy, intimacy, and vulnerability.

Hocking has exhibited widely, including; 2024 Drava Biennale Croatia, Koprivnica Art Museum, Osijek Museum of Fine Art, Art Gallery of Slavonski. Exhibition at Gallery CEKAO Zagreb, Croatia. Depot Artspace, Auckland; Gallery-Smith, Melbourne; Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery of Lisbon, Portugal; Museu Municipal de Penafiel, Portugal; Flinders Art Museum Adelaide.