Making Space Lecture Series | Ana Iti

Te Waka Tūhura Elam School of Fine Arts is making space for artists and art professionals to share their practice and research.

In this lecture series, leading artists are invited to share their research, illuminating their practices and the contexts in which they operate professionally.

Venue: Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland | 20 Whitaker Place, Auckland

Lecture hall: Lecture Theatre 432-136

Time: Lecture 6 - 7pm

About the lecture:

I am a salt lake I am a wharf

In this lecture, Iti discusses some of the methodology found in her work over recent years through discussing the works A resilient heart like the mānawa (2024) and I am salt lake (2023). The talk brings together two threads of her practice, sculpture and moving image, and reflects on how relating with and thinking through non-human structures and processes has been a generative force in her work.

About the speaker:

Ana Iti (Te Rarawa, Pākehā) is an artist currently based in Te Matau-a-Maui Hawkes Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has a BFA (Sculpture) from the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Ōtautahi Christchurch (2012) and a MFA from Toi Rauwharangi Massey University in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018). Iti has shown extensively throughout Aotearoa in leading institutions and project spaces. Significant solo exhibitions include; I am a salt lake, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2023; I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2022. Her work has also been included in; Image Economies, Monash University Museum of Art, 2025; Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, 2025; and Swallowing Geography, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 2022. In 2024 Iti was the recipient of New Zealand’s Premiere contemporary Art award, the Walters Prize.

still from I am a salt lake, The Physics Room, 2023

Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.

Photo: Shafeek Nalakath Kareem