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Spotify this week
Each week a playlist is curated to reflect the blog articles. The whole playlist is available on the Spotify platform and can be heard by clicking on the player above…
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Slow Violence: Anna Madeleine Raupach
The Australian artist, Anna Madeleine Raupach, uses textiles and textile techniques to explore social, political and cultural aspects of today through science and technology. In the series, Slow Violence, the…
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Max – the 8 year old fashion designer
A fascination with fashion sometimes strikes at an early age. Meet Max Alexander, who, at age eight, has become an Instagram star. Having started to post on Instagram so that…
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Wool in the world
As the studio in Māwhera Greymouth gathers speed – pictures to follow soon – so the hunt for wool yarns continues. Wool in Aotearoa New Zealand used to be Big…
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Navigating the blog
This week a regular reader of the blog mentioned that it could be a little difficult to navigate. Each week, as you know, an email goes out with all the…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week the blog is accompanied by a Spotify playlist of pieces that are somehow connected to the entries. To listen to the playlist you can click on the player…
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The lace of Rowan Panther
Rowan Panther is an artist who works with muka to create beautiful lace pieces that reference her Samoan, Irish, English and Prussian heritage. Muka is made from harakeke/ New Zealand…
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The identity of language
It is the end of te wiki o te reo Māori – Māori language week. Language is the key to identity and so it has often been subject to the…
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Tau Lewis
Tau Lewis is a Candian artist who lives in the United States where her first solo show in the country has opened. Using textiles and found objects Lewis has created…
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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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