Opening Floor Talk: Flaming Star

The Dowse Art Museum is a free public gallery for people to enjoy contemporary art and culture.With constantly changing exhibitions, a welcoming family lounge and delightful store a visit to The Dowse Art Museum is the perfect way to upgrade your day. After you’ve feasted your eyes on the extraordinary art and attended one of our events you can have enjoy kai and kōrero with friends and whānau at Bellbird Eatery.

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Saddle up for an opening weekend floor talk that traverses the fantasies, yearning and contradictions of cowboy culture.

Saddle up, cowboys! It’s time to ride into the queer, campy, and delightfully dark world of <a href="https://dowse.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/2025/flaming-star" title="https://dowse.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/2025/flaming-star" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Flaming Star</a>.Join curator Milly Mitchell-Anyon alongside exhibiting artists for an opening weekend floor talk that traverses the dusty fantasies and contradictions of cowboy culture. From haunted mansions to gyrating mechanical bulls, this tour explores queerness, desire, and wrangles with the dark undercurrents of ‘The West’.Imagine Liberace in dusty chaps, cowboys fuelled by yearning, and the sensual undoing of the colonial frontier.Flaming Star features works by: Arapeta Hākura, Bec Agnew, Christopher Ulutupu, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, Michael Haggie, Ming Ranginui, and Sandy Gibbs. Ready to ride? Image: Still from Bec Agnew, Infinite West, 2022, moving image. Composition by Damien Sutton. Courtesy of the artist.

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