Masons Screen

Supported by Wellington City Council and programmed by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, Masons Screen presents a new artist’s work each month.

The screen is located on Masons Lane – a pedestrian walkway between The Terrace and Lambton Quay.

Current video

Antonia Van Sitter, Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata (2024)

Digital video, sound, 4 minutes and 19 seconds

24 July – 2 August 2024

E huri ō pūkanohi ki ō tūpareparehua, ki ō wai-kaukau, ki ō whenua tāngaengae hei oranga motuhenga mōu, mō ngā whakareanga ā-haere ake nei.

A series of drawings by the artist are laid over an excerpt from the 2014 short film Ahī Ka. The film is based on Manupirua Bay on the edge of Lake Rotoiti, where the artist grew up. Her whānau are the kaitiaki of the natural geothermal springs that exist as a living entity belonging and connecting to both the land and the people. The combining of the older film with Van Sitter's contemporary drawings suggests the concept of continuous occupation through the burning of fires. 

Antonia Van Sitter (Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue) is an artist based in Wellington. Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata was curated by Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka (Ngā Puhi, Ngati Pakau and Waitaha) for Matariki 2024. Commissioned by Wellington City Council and CIRCUIT.

Past projects

• Yvonne Todd, Denim Seagull (2013)
• Robyn Jordaan, The Lady at the Pier (2024)
• Noel Meek and Jake Kīanō Skinner, Rua Kōhatu / Two Stones (2024)
• the observatory project, non-standard measures (2023)
• Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Bledisloe Bebop (2020)
• Hiona Henare, THEY AIN'T WOKE YET (2023)
• Keri-Mei Zagrobelna (Te Āti Awa, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) – Te Pito (2023)
• Hana Pera Aoake – I saw the mountain erupt (2023)
• Leala Faleseuga – Vessel: Dissolution | It's in the milk (2023)
• Matthew Cowan and Jana Müller – Background Scenes (2022)
• Xi Li – Prosperity or Emptiness (2022)
• Cat Auburn – Crying Cliffs (2010)
• Richard Frater – Sweet Apparition (2008)
• Yona Lee – Propositions (2021)
• Arapeta – Te Orokoomaa (2022)
• Suzanne Tamaki – Manu does Matariki (2022)
• Bruce Barber – Spectres of Marx (2015)
• Sione Faletau – Kupesi o Mason Screen (Patterns of Mason Screen) (2022)
• Jamie Berry – Wai whakaika (2022)
• Gabriel White – Scenic Journey (2022)
• Louie Zalk-Neale, Mana tipua tuku iho – Transcestor (2021)
• James R Ford – Infinite Monkey Syndrome (2012)
• Jae Hoon Lee – A Leaf (2003)
• Louisa Afoa – Pink Flamingo (2016)
• Phil Dadson – Am I Dreaming? (2020)