Instagram story viewer> @javabentley> Tagged

javabentley

@javabentley

undefined

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Last chance to see Java Bentley's 'Cubeside Annex' at Grace, Rationalist House.

Friday & Saturday
11:00 - 4:00

-

Pictured:

'Onerua‍' & 'Onetoru' (detail)

'Cubside Annex', 2023 - 2026
Umbrellas gifted by Karangawai Marsh, repurposed materials

@javabentley
@felixelaing

36

0

Java Bentley
Cubeside Annex
Grace
1.10.26–24.10.26

-

"Cubeside Annex seems to be testing—with love but not without tension—the limits of a structure’s life outside of itself. What can a building bring of its essence and history, its use, its mauri, when translated across space, size, material, and even configuration?"

link in bio.

-

image: Java Bentley, Cubeside Annex, 2023–2026, installation view, Grace, 2026. Photograph Courtesy of Grace.

20

0

Congratulations to my sister @faameleetuale for last night always proud of you. Thank you to @javabentley for curating these works. Congratulations @angerlia.o & @lemashamamba

@homesteadgalleries
@corbanestate
17 October - 5 December
Monday to Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm

3

5

Meet the Artist: Java Bentley

Saturday, 17 October
1:00 – 2:00

Join us in the gallery for a relaxed afternoon tea and kōrero with Java Bentley and curator Felixe Laing. Cubeside Annex marks an important point in Java’s practice, with the work developing through her Masters research and ongoing questions around sustainability and whakapapa.

Come along to meet Java, hear more about the work’s development, and spend time with the artist as we explore what it means to bring Cubeside Annex back to Tāmaki Makaurau.

-

Oneiwa & Onewaru‍ ‍
475 x 1000 & 1819 x 1730

as part of Cubside Annex, 2023 - 2026
Umbrellas gifted by Karangawai Marsh, repurposed materials

@javabentley

49

1

Now on show at Grace, Rationalist House.

Java Bentley
Cubside Annex, 2023 - 2026
Umbrellas gifted by Karangawai Marsh, repurposed materials

@javabentley

64

0

Cubeside Annex
Java Bentley
01 October - 24 October

Full documentation is now online at graceaotearoa.net

-

Cubeside Annex, 2023 - 2026
Umbrellas gifted by Karangawai Marsh, repurposed materials
Java

📷 @samuel_hartnett

76

0

Now on view at Grace Aotearoa, Java Bentley’s Cubeside Annex curated by Felixe Laing.

-

Onetahi
1840 x 1710

Cubeside Annex, 2023 - 2026
Umbrellas gifted by Karangawai Marsh, repurposed materials

📷 @samuel_hartnett

281

9

Java Bentley⁠
Cubeside Annex⁠
Curated by Felixe Laing⁠
1 Oct – 24 Oct @grace_aotearoa
Opening: Thu 1 Oct, 6pm⁠
⁠
Originally assembled as a whare, Cubeside Annex was first created as a replica of the studio space where Java Bentley was working in Te Papaioea Palmerston North. For its presentation at Grace Aotearoa, the work has been reconfigured within the Rationalist House in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.⁠
⁠
Working with gifted umbrellas and repurposed materials, Bentley traces questions of whakapapa, provenance, memory and, mauri through the changing life of a house. In this reconfiguration she considers what happens when a whole is separated into its parts, and what remains connected through whenua, belonging and exchange.⁠
⁠
@javabentley
@felixelaing
⁠
📷 Java Bentley, Cubeside Annex (detail), 2025–26.⁠
⁠
#graceaotearoa #javabentley

21

0

Java Bentley b.1994 (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi, Faatoia Samoa) is a sculptural installation artist and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her recent research into making has enabled concepts of new mauri, memory and belonging to be traced through both writing and material practice.

She is currently Curator and Exhibitions Manager at Homestead Galleries, Corban Estate Arts Centre (2026). In 2025, she was an Emerging Curator with Mataaho Collective at Tate Modern, London, and in 2024, an Intern Curator with Heerz Tooya in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She was also a funded Emerging Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Bentley holds a Master of Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti (2024), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a conjoint in Art History from Elam School of Fine Arts, Waimata Taumata Rau (2018).

@javabentley

174

17

Grace presents Cubeside Annex, an exhibition by Java Bentley curated by Felixe Laing.

01 October - 24 October

Preview: Thursday 01 October, 6:00 - 8:00

Nau mai, haere mai!

-

𝘏𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘰𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘢, 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘢, 𝘦 𝘬𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘰𝘩𝘪𝘢.

𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯.

Originally assembled as a whare, Cubeside Annex was first created as a replica of the studio space where Java Bentley was working in Te Papaioea Palmerston North. For its presentation at Grace Aotearoa, the work has been reconfigured within the Rationalist House in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Working with gifted umbrellas and repurposed materials, Bentley traces questions of whakapapa, provenance, memory and, mauri through the changing life of a house. In this reconfiguration she considers what happens when a whole is separated into its parts, and what remains connected through whenua, belonging and exchange.

-

Grace and the artist would like to acknowledge Karangawai Marsh, Felixe Laing, Robyn Walton, Scott Facer, and the artist’s family.

@javabentley
@felixelaing

103

1

Cubeside Annex
Java Bentley
01 October - 24 October

-

Preview: Thursday 01 October, 6:00 - 8:00

Nau mai, haere mai!

-

The preview of Cubeside Annex is sponsored by Matter of Time.

@matteroftimewines

68

0

Ka rawe Brook and George @kidkonia I loved your show so much! ✨💦 🔥 🍃

Tūturu Kāenga, George Konia and Brook Konia, curated by the incredible @javabentley alongside the epic show Witipū by wahine toa at Toioho ki Āpiti Massey University ❤️❤️❤️ on now @homesteadgalleries

And wow Java and Tony - that install!💥👌

25

2