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Feb 18, 2020
2 min

Power objects

Josephine Cachemaille creates artworks of empowerment for her daughter in her new exhibition 'She's a Force'.

Oct 21, 2019
4 min

Art attack

Coveting art that has meaning to her, and pieces she wants to live amongst, Frances Bennington's home is a gallery of treasures.

Oct 9, 2019
4 min

Plastic surgery

In Shelley Norton's hands, a controversial material is transformed into intricate works of art.

Oct 2, 2019
3 min

New tools, same battle

Metiria Turei works to centre Indigenous identity and experience in her art and is learning to speak with things rather than words.

Oct 1, 2019
2 min

Ice issue

Photographer Jonathan Kay creates icy art. His new experimental project 'Ice Field' uses large scale photograms to capture glacial details.

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

House paint

Painter Judy Millar talks about her relationship with Colin McCahon, her artists residency at the McCahon House, and her upcoming works.

Aug 29, 2019
4 min

A few of my favourite things

To mark 100 years since the opening of Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, past gallery director Bill Milbank selects his favourite pieces.

Aug 12, 2019
5 min

Great Dane

Representing Aotearoa at this year's Venice Art Biennale, Dane Mitchell explores the vanished, the forgotten, and the imperceptible.

Jul 11, 2019
5 min

A call to contribute

Matariki Williams visited 'Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive' and writes how the concept of palimpsest helped her understand its layers.

May 30, 2019
2 min

Birthday girl

April marked 150 years since the birth of Frances Hodgkins. To celebrate, Francesca Emms spoke to big time Frances fan, Dr Joanne Drayton.

Apr 5, 2019
3 min

Red spiral

Whanganui artist Lynn Hurst walks Francesca Emms through her elaborate digital works that explore earthly pleasures and human nature.

Mar 28, 2019
6 min

Architectural intent

Jake Walker's textural and abstract pieces are a nod to the influence of design and architecture on his way of seeing the world.

Mar 15, 2019
4 min

Gender bias no problem

Piera McArthur talks to Janet Hughes about her experience as a woman artist, in the light of a post-suffrage century of change.

Feb 3, 2019
3 min

Crushing it

Monique Lacy's artistic process includes crushing, squashing and painting. Sarah Catherall investigates.

Jan 22, 2019
4 min

Slick and subversive

Artist Kerry Ann Lee talks zines, dream spaces, and the connection between material objects and sense of place.

Jan 16, 2019
4 min

Boom of the bloom

From botanical drawings to fashion prints, Francesca Emms investigates the enduring presence of flora in our artistic repertoires.

Dec 4, 2018
3 min

Hungry hungry Henry

From photography to gastronomy, Henry Hargreaves talks with Francesca Emms about how he satisfies his appetite.

Oct 3, 2018
3 min

Furry friends

Meet World of Wearable Art award-winner Stephanie Cossens and her menagerie of soft sculptures.

Sep 27, 2018
3 min

Knives and neighbourhoods

This year at CONDO, an international gallery exchange, a collaboration with New Zealand gallery Hopkinson Mossman turns heads.

Sep 16, 2018
5 min

Crimes against art

As the 4th annual New Zealand Art Crime Symposium opens, Francesca Emms explores the unexpectedly active art crime scene in Aotearoa.

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