Aotearoa Art Fair
30 April 2026 — 3 May 2026
Support Play
Megan Brady and Ed Ritchie
Curated by Matthew Galloway
Viaduct Event Centre
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Aotearoa NZ
Windows 5, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
Windows, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Megan Brady.
Windows 3 & 4, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
Windows 1, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
‘Support Play’ brings together the practices of Ed Ritchie and Megan Brady to form a dialogue about the precarious properties of both natural and artificial materials.
Ritchie’s work begins with the unique storage properties of various organic materials like burl wood, peat moss and seed encasings — using them to fabricate small-scale models of everyday infrastructure; commenting on the impulse to contain and preserve.
Meanwhile, Brady removes warp and weft threads from European Flax Linen using a technique inherited from her Nan, creating apertures through subtraction. The works meditate on tightly bound systems — colonial structures, naming conventions, whakapapa — and gently loosen them.
In both bodies of work, careful attention is paid to support systems and modes of presentation, again making these considerations integral to the work itself, and the connections and divergences between the two practices reflect a sustained history of collaboration and shared involvement in the contemporary art scene in Ōtepoti, Dunedin
Windows 3, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
Windows 4, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
Windows 1, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
Windows 5, 2026. (Ongoing series). Linen, muka, aluminium. Photo credit Ryan B McCauley.
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