Due to phenomenal demand, with every arena date on her ‘The Art of Loving’ AU/NZ tour now sold out, Olivia Dean has announced a major upgrade to her Auckland show: the Tāmaki Makaurau date moves from Spark Arena to Western Springs Bowl, freshly reopened after a $2.5 million transformation into one of the city’s premier outdoor destinations for concerts, festivals and community sport. The October 17 show will mark the grand opening of the new venue, positioning Dean as the artist to christen its next chapter and turning the night into a celebration of not just one of her biggest headline shows to date, but of Auckland’s live music scene as a whole.

Existing ticketholders can rest easy: their tickets will be reissued for the new venue to their Ticketek NZ account by 30 September; if they do not have a Ticketek NZ account, they have until August 31 to sign up. New tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday 20 August, with fans able to register for presale access now HERE.

Dean says: “I’m so excited to return to Australia & New Zealand! Thank you so much for all your support over the last few years, I can’t wait to celebrate with you soon!”

Joining Dean across every AU and NZ date is the Papua New Guinean-born artist Kaiit (pronounced Ky-Yeet), one of Australia’s most compelling musical forces. Blending neo-soul and hip-hop with the intimacy of a jazz club, Kaiit brings honeyed vocals, raw storytelling and a fearless stage presence that has drawn early co-signs from Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. She holds the 2019 ARIA Award for Best R&B/Soul Work for ‘Miss Shiney’ and the 2025 APRA Award for Most Performed R&B/Soul Work for her independently released single ‘Space’, and has shared stages with SZA, Snoh Aalegra and Chaka Khan. As the saying goes, Kaiit doesn’t fit in a box — she builds the room.

Celebrating her second album, The Art of Loving, out now via Universal, Dean’s tour spans Naarm/Melbourne, Wangal/Sydney, Meanjin/Brisbane and Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, with every show a sellout and the Auckland date now shaping up as the tour’s crowning night.

New Zealand has proven especially fertile ground for Dean, and the numbers bear that out. She has spent twenty-one weeks simultaneously atop both the NZ Official Singles and Album Charts, the longest such run in the country’s chart history by some margin. ‘Man I Need’ spent thirty-one non-consecutive weeks at number one, a New Zealand record, and is now certified six-times platinum, while The Art of Loving itself notched twenty-three non-consecutive weeks at number one and sits at four-times platinum. New Zealand was also the first market in the world to certify Dean Gold for ‘The Hardest Part’, a single that has since climbed to Three-Times Platinum. Across her catalogue, Dean now holds Two Platinum-certified albums and more than a dozen certified singles in New Zealand alone, from multi-platinum hits like ‘Nice To Each Other’ and ‘So Easy (To Fall In Love)’ through to Gold breakthroughs like ‘Echo’ and ‘It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be’, a run that places her among the most decorated international artists in the country’s chart history.

Following her 2023 debut, Messy, Dean’s ascent has been one of rare clarity. Shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, Best New Artist at the 2026 Grammys, four BRIT Awards wins, and a new record for her Sam Fender collaboration ‘Rein Me In’, she has managed to walk the line between viral popularity and critical reverence without losing her footing.

Dean’s music resists easy classification, marrying soul, pop and classic singer-songwriter structures with diaristic detail and featherlight production. Tracks like ‘The Hardest Part’ and ‘Dive’ have given listeners a front-row seat to her inner world, while live performances — from Jools Holland’s Hootenanny to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage — have affirmed her quiet magnetism.

That emotional generosity carries through The Art of Loving, an album Dean has described as a deepening of her lifelong study of love — not its spectacle, but its smaller, more ordinary textures.