Parnell Project Space is an exhibition, performance and event space located on the platform at Parnell Station, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
It hosts Te Tuhi’s Curatorial Internship programme , which offers an individual the opportunity to curate a programme of exhibitions and events across a fixed period. It is a paid training position for an emerging art curator in Aotearoa New Zealand to develop their practice through experimentation, hands-on practice and mentorship.
Parnell Project Space engages with contemporary curators and artists who have an interest in experimental and social practices, providing an environment in which they can develop their practices and expand their networks.
Location
Parnell Station
25 Cheshire Street
Parnell 1052
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Te Tuhi at Parnell Station incorporates the Te Tuhi Studios and Parnell Project Space. Find out more about Te Tuhi at Parnell Station here.
Jordan Davey-Emms is the Curatorial Intern at Parnell Project Space until March 2025.
Jordan Davey-Emms is Te Tuhi’s 2024 Curatorial Intern, who is curating a programme under the name soft shell. Jordan’s programme takes place at Te Tuhi’s Parnell Project Space from June 2024 - March 2025.
The name soft shell references the tender bodies of crayfish and other crustaceans, revealed when their hard shells have been cast off to allow for growth. Jordan sees the internship as a similar short period for growth, located in Parnell where the Waipapa stream used to flow.
Jordan is interested in setting up soft shell as a flexible, friendly structure that supports artistic practice and community building. Soft shell will dig deeper into the themes and approaches Jordan experimented with at Wormhole Gallery and Studio in Edgecumbe: thinking about living inside ecologies; centering partnership and reciprocity; and playing with the sensory potential of exhibition making.
Soft shell is an opportunity to test this approach in a different context. How might a small-town-informed curatorial practice operate in the big city?
Soft shell’s first project, Taura, is an experiment in enabling artist-to-artist exchange that looks to establish soft shell as a site for activity, experimentation, and community building. See below for information about related events and other programming.
About Jordan Davey-Emms
Jordan Davey-Emms is an artist and curator who ran Wormhole in Edgecumbe, Whakatāne. She was a founding member of the Kauae Raro Research Collective (2020 - 2022) and the winner of the 2017 Glaister Ennor Award at Sanderson Contemporary Art. Jordan is interested in play, process, place, ecologies, and belonging. Her writing can be found in Plates Journal, Vernacular, and on Wormhole's website.
To find out more about Jordan Davey-Emms and the curatorial internship click here.
Read more about previous internships here.
2022 – 2023 Felixe Laing: Chez Derriere
2020–2021 James Tapsell-Kururangi: Papatūnga