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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,...