Artist talk with Lucy Meyle and Emily O'Hara

Join exhibiting artist Lucy Meyle for a kōrero with Emily O’Hara in a discussion of her newly commissioned exhibition Phone Tree for The Changing Room, proudly supported by The Chartwell Trust. Phone Tree centres around moth traps that lure ‘pest’ species with pseudo-pheromones and catch them in nets or on sticky paper. Through this project, Meyle adapts these surveillance and control devices for humorously different ends, reframing them as narrative holders which are interfered with by the moths themselves.

All are welcome. You can find out more about the exhibition here.

The Changing Room 2026 is proudly supported by The Chartwell Trust.⁠

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Lucy Meyle is an artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland whose practice explores ways of considering and relating to animals. Working in sculpture and publication, Meyle often draws together the archival, the observed and the absurd into material relation. Recent exhibitions include Pause, act, void, event (Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth), the castle and the goat (Goya Curtain, Tokyo), Spring Time is Heart-break (Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchurch), Memories of a Naturalist (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin), wiggling together, falling apart (Michael Lett (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland), and Mews room (play_station gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington).

Emily O’Hara is tangata Tiriti, born in Nelson and now living in Puketāpapa, Tāmaki Makaurau. She is a Senior Lecturer in Spatial and Interior Design, and Programme Leader of the Master of Design at Auckland University of Technology, where she also supervises postgraduate students across visual arts and design. Her interdisciplinary practice explores temporality, spatiality, and connection through long-duration works grounded in everyday rhythms and cycles of life and death. She is interested in the feminine, the maternal, and the domestic, and in how celestial and elemental forces (such as the sun, moon, water, rocks, salt, fog, and fire) shape intergenerational and interspatial relationships.

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