Andrew Paul Wood
Art Historian and Writer

New Zealand-Aotearoa has the population of a mid-sized international city, and a disproportionately huge population of creative practitioners. Unfortunately, this also means we only have a miniscule elite of cognoscenti and patrons to support the delicate structure. Are we doing enough to reach out to the ordinary Kiwi who doesn't give a toss about contemporary art? Are we as the 'arts community' doing enough to make it accessible, in order to keep New Zealand contemporary arts viable and fertile? I believe we must do more to give contemporary art more meaning in everyday life.

Theory isn't everything. Deleuze and Guattari is as much about fashion as Dolce and Gabbana.

As the great and prolific philosopher Anon once wrote, 'Writing about art is like dancing about architecture.'