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Apr 12, 20238 min read
A conversation on the delicate overlap of art and gardening
Dr Linda Tyler explores the intersection of art and gardening with artist Katherine Throne. Katherine shares how her garden influences...
Mar 30, 20232 min read
Poetic forms
By Sophie Carter Poetry and painting go hand-in-hand for Briana Jamieson. The artist, writer, curator, and publisher enjoys wearing many...
Mar 30, 20234 min read
Working from home
Telly Tuita outgrew his art studio long ago, so he’s had to get inventive. Melody Thomas gets a tour of his Wellington work space. “Home”...
Mar 22, 20236 min read
Grape juice
Grapes, portals or polka-dots – choose your own adventure through Ben Buchanan’s hallucinogenic pop. Dan Poynton takes a trip. Walking...
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Without having to interact
For years Catherine Russ has used her photography to show her surroundings in a light that many people don't get to see. Her latest...
Nov 30, 20225 min read
Young abstract and female
Helen Kedgley enjoys the trailblazing palette of three young artists. It is heartening to see the recent success of three young New...
Nov 29, 20225 min read
Bubbling with hedonism and delight
Laura Williams’ work pokes fun at the serious and sacred. She discusses her lush painted world with Claire O’Loughlin. Laura Williams’...
Nov 29, 20223 min read
Death by flowers
Floral dreamscapes that consider her own mortality are the focus of Carmel Van Der Hoeven’s latest works. She talks to Madeleine Boles de...
Nov 24, 20224 min read
Painted ladies
The female form has always been the focus for painter Natasha Wright. She talks to Francesca Emms about her life-long interest and how...
Oct 25, 20223 min read
Jack in the bardo
The painter emerges from hibernation. Arthur Hawkes speaks with Jack Trolove about his wilful artistic isolation. Painter Jack Trolove...
Oct 24, 20227 min read
Mending the broken fragment
Returning home has changed Suji Park’s work in ceramics. She discusses the arc of her work with Claire O’Loughlin. In 2016, New...
Sep 13, 20226 min read
Here is everywhere
Is an exhibition space a place that gives you something, or is it somewhere to leave your baggage? Is it a temple for philosophers, or a...
Sep 12, 20227 min read
Slow developers
Slow down and look, intensely, is the message from Derek Henderson and Harry Culy. Both men share a familiarity with Hawkes Bay and...
Sep 7, 20226 min read
The significance of Gretchen Albrecht's hemispheres
In a long friendship, Gretchen Albrecht and Catharina van Bohemen have discussed art, books, poetry, and aspects of the Roman Catholic...
Sep 6, 20223 min read
Intersectional art
Cumbria, England’s Lake District, has given us poetry by Wordsworth and Coleridge, The Lakes by Taylor Swift, and Virginia Woods-Jack, an...
Aug 2, 20223 min read
The landscape of technology and art
Artificial intelligence and climate change – artist Stephen Ellis lets us in on the influences behind Unfolding, his latest exhibition....
Jul 21, 20226 min read
Man of the cloth
From Zoroastrian priest to queer punk, Areez Katki stitches himself a coat of many colours. He talks to Dan Poynton. There’s something...
Apr 6, 20225 min read
Giving Nature the Mic
Environmental art and its power to change to change behaviour? Mia Gaudin investigates.
Mar 15, 20226 min read
CPotY 2022 Judging Panel
Capital Photographer of the Year (CPoTY) is back for 2022. We’ve assembled twenty of New Zealand’s leading creatives. Get to know the...
Mar 15, 20225 min read
Scarborough Fare
Jim and Susan Wakefield owned one of the most significant private collections of New Zealand art in the country. Their home, Ravenscar,...
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