by Jo Bragg
In early 2026, Āporo Press will release the debut poetry and photography collection, Frisk [working title], from poet, researcher and still/moving image-based visual artist Jo Bragg (Ngāti Porou).
This collection spans 10 years of poetic work from 2015–2025 and chronicles the life of Bragg through this period. From art school to the club, to the gender clinic; to the ‘corporate-artworld’ this collection is irreverently queer.
Bragg describes the work as “Starting out just like any gay person who aspires to greatness: a misaligned over-identification with Lana Del Rey.”
Self-described hopeless romantic Jo Bragg (he/him) (Ngāti Porou) is a Tāmaki Makaurau born and based art writer, poet, researcher and still/moving image-based visual artist. Bragg holds an MFA by Research (First Class Honours) awarded in 2021 from Monash University (Naarm, Melbourne) majoring in contemporary art, gender and trans-feminist theory.
