Lens-based artist Caryline Boreham investigates the management of long-term illness. Francesca Emms asked about her process. Boreham’s on-going project, titl...

Joon-Hee Park says her paintings are like baking cakes. ‘Layers of childhood memories and dreams, filled with fluffy cream of imagination with drops of love,...

Prakash Patel’s warehouse studio is situated by the Whanganui River. Francesca Emms visited the painter and came away a little starstruck. Prakash Patel is a...

An astronaut and a mini security guard face each other. Maeve Hughes reviews Encounter 1 , the first in a series of exhibitions juxtaposing artists exploring...

Josephine Cachemaille says motherhood is a deeply unfashionable thing to make commentary upon, ‘mainly because society is critical and suspicious of women wh...

Frances Bennington lives surrounded by the art, furniture and objects she has collected for more than four decades. Sarah Lang had a look. The open-plan livi...

In Shelley Norton's hands, a controversial material is transformed into intricate works of art. Sarah Catherall talks to the jewellery maker about her plasti...

Metiria Turei is finding her voice, again. She spoke with Hanahiva Rose. ‘Ko Metiria Turei ahau. No Āti Haunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa me R...

Photographer Jonathan Kay creates icy art. Madeleine Boles de Boer asked him about his process. Between 1977 and 2016 New Zealand glaciers lost enough ice to...

The McCahon House Artists' Residency was set up in honour of Colin McCahon. The inaugural Artist in Residence, painter Judy Millar, spoke to Francesca Emms a...

On 6 September, it will be exactly 100 years since Whanganui’s Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua opened its doors. To celebrate this milestone, we asked past...

Former nations…ghost towns…cured diseases…withdrawn drugs…dead words…extinct species…destroyed artworks…lost archives…closed libraries…disbanded political pa...

Though the term may sound impenetrable, the palimpsest is a helpful concept for considering Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive, writes Matariki Williams. S...

April marked 150 years since the birth of Frances Hodgkins. To celebrate Francesca Emms spoke with Dr Joanne Drayton - biographer, curator, and fan of France...

Whanganui artist Lynn Hurst is refreshingly candid. Francesca Emms visited her in the River City. ‘One of the reasons I started going digital is that I lost ...

Jake Walker wrestles large buildings. He grapples with their edges, squeezing them into his paintings and anchoring them there with ceramic frames. Michelle ...

Piera McArthur has had a long, successful, prolific career as a painter, in New Zealand and overseas. Janet Hughes talked with her about her experience as a w...

Monique Lacey takes a simple cardboard box, then squashes it, paints it, and turns it into art. Sarah Catherall explains. Crushing the packaging material is ...

Kerry Ann Lee’s art began as a way to 'question the world.' She is interested in public art and institutional art and the differences between them. Her work ...

Floral fashion, in clothing and furnishings, has had a recent resurgence. But while fashion comes and goes, the use of floral elements in art never seems to ...