One morning earlier this week, a memory came back to me like a slap in the face: for several years I forgot how to speak and how to write. Dramatic, I know. But it felt like that. I could do the basics, but beyond that it was difficult. There was
When considering a new project, I weigh up what it will give versus what it will take away from something else. My biggest consideration is whether it will make me less present for my family, and then, whether it will increase my stress for a prolonged period. Sometimes, after looking
I've created more than 10 posts since Waymarkers began. My goal was to write one a month, to justify the fee that I pay for the site to exist, and to test out the idea of a blog over a traditional website. Averaging three posts every month is
And it probably is. I am more up than down. But I am down right now, and I am looking for things to blame it on. Not getting a break, usually. Taking on too much, often. I want to tell people, so that they can get used to the idea
Six artists fretted about whether or not they could make an exhibition of new work in eight weeks. We did it, and it was good. The project - The Inbetween at Stoddart Cottage, Diamond Harbour, 1-26 January 2025 - wishes to be spoken about. Sitting here tonight to do so
With gratitude and excitement, I can tell you I’ve been shortlisted for ZAWAA25, with my work, ‘It’s really all about the light’ [Rakahuri], 2024. I'm really pleased to have another chance to show this work in the ZAWAA25 exhibition - out of the archive and into
The InBetween // Stoddart Cottage // Until Sunday 26 January 'The space between things is not empty', noted the author, Don Miguel Ruiz. In this group exhibition, Katie Hallam, Casey Macaulay, Tessa Warburton, Kris Waldin, Celia Wilson and Jo Ernsten explore the question of what resides in the between spaces
In early 2023, my friend Casey Macaulay and I set out to explore collaborative working and playful, uninhibited making. This evolved into a loosely-structured game, and a continuous kōrero about what it means to exhibit, to collaborate and to make time for individual creative practice amidst competing priorities. Mail Box
I am a few hours away from finishing new work for a show. Not a few hours from this moment (in this moment I am with my five-year-old daughter as she watches one of the film adaptations of How The Grinch Stole Christmas [Seuss, 1957], because is 4pm, it'
For Back Catalogue, I share significant projects from the last few years. This content had a home on my old website and I want to keep it alive. Land Marks [Hallam Moors] Drawings, 2023. This is a land I have moved across many times. This is a land I lived
11 August - 12 September 2024, Rangiora Chamber Gallery For her debut exhibition Little Landmarks, Katie Hallam acts as a reporter from the edges of Waimakariri waterways, and presents works that simultaneously reveal and obscure her observations. Blending drawing, painting and printmaking, Hallam contemplates the way land and objects on
I closed down my Wix site yesterday and it's a weight off my mind. The bill always arrived just before Christmas (for Christ's sake), and it never felt like good value for money. Then I discovered https://boycottwix.org/ and knew I had to ditch them