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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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  • 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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