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  • Friedrich Hundertwasser in Aotearoa

    The Austrian-born architect and and artist, Friedrich Stowasser, popularly known as “Hundertwasser”, a pseudonym, moved to North New Zealand in the 1970s where he lived and worked for the rest…

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  • Creative Click – a photography show

    Calling any West Coast photographers out there…

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  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Each blog is accompanied by a Spotify playlist, a curated list that refers to articles on the blog. Sometimes the audio has an obvious connection, sometimes it is more oblique.…

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  • The joyful art of Maungarongo Te Kawa

    The Māori artist, Maungarongo Te Kawa, uses an array of techniques and materials to create fabulous, marvellous and wonder-filled quilts. “Ron” Te Kawa uses fabrics to convey messages to uplift,…

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  • Sheridan Keith

    Sheridan Keith owns the Blikfang (Danish for “eye-catcher”) Gallery in Auckland and is an author, a broadcaster, an artist, a collector and a curator. The youngest daughter of June Black,…

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  • Costume and Textile Symposium

    For the past two weeks we have been travelling in the North of Aotearoa New Zealand, a trip that started because of the Costume and Textile Symposium in Whangārei. CTANZ…

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  • A brief hiatus

    This week we are away to Whangerei where I am giving a talk at the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand Symposium. The talk is on Shetland Tweed and…

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  • Cicadas – music to the ears?

    Each year cicadas emerge from their underground nurseries to fill the air with their chirping and buzzing. To some they are a nuisance but to this entomologist they are a…

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  • Sheep sleep

    The new studio in Māwhera Greymouth has plenty of wall space for art, and what could be more appropriate than Storm Thorgerson’s “Sheep sleep”? The image, printed onto metal, greets…

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  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Every week a playlist is curated on the Spotify platform for the blog. Each item references something in the blog, sometimes obviously and sometimes less so. Paying subscribers to Spotify…

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