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Creative Connections

Mandy Jakich

In conversation with Aotearoa"s visual artists, talking practice, process and creative life.

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Lauren Kitts - Sculptor

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2022/10/11

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Glen Colechin - Sculptor

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2022/10/05

Glen is a sculptor born and raised in the UK and now a NZ resident living in Napier. His contemporary sculptures are made from recycled materials, off-cuts from native timbers, recycled copper, brass and natural elements like stone and wood.Being an innovative craftsman fits comfortably with Glen Colechin’s engineering background. With a past career in product design and production engineering, he has a sound foundation with the skills to drive his creative core. He has recently transitioned to a

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78:51

Elliot Collins - Interdisciplinary Artist

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2022/09/30

Elliot is a text based artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, currently living in Taranaki, who works in an interdisciplinary way. He incorporates painting, language, photography, installation and sculpture to discuss ideas of time, memory and ways we interpret our environment. Elliot is interested in the art that can inform our lives and can be used as a filter or divining tool to see the world we inhabit with greater clarity and purpose. I so enjoyed meeting Elliot and chatting to him in my studio. We

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Valerie Auersperg (Valerism) - Illustrator, Painter

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2022/09/27

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Josh Lancaster - Painter

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2022/09/20

Welcome to Episode 56. This week I'm talking to Josh Lancaster. Josh paints the places and buildings New Zealanders know and love. "I do this by trying to capture the essence of a familiar place" says Josh " be it someone’s dairy, beach, view, flat, island, road, takeaway shop, family bach or simply just the memory of one. These are the places we cherish - the iconic moments that make up who we are. They are an agent for fond memories, stories, feelings. Collectively we love

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Rachael Mayne - Painter

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2022/09/14

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ARTFULL - An Online Gallery Platform

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2022/09/02

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Lucy Rice - Abstract Painter

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2022/08/19

Lucy is a full time artist living in the small seaside town of Snells Beach, an hour North of Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband & 3 young children.She studied Photography and Art at Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland NZ and spent 8 years running her own photography business (Lucy Rice Photography) before launching her painting career in early 2019.Lucy works with acrylics & mixed media to create intuitive abstract pieces with glorious soft pastel and earthy tones. Her paintings play

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BLANK INSPIRATION: Pre Framed Canvases

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2022/08/12

This is episode 52 and the first of a new series of shorter format podcast episodes that will be sprinkled through our artist interviews and are devoted to highlighting a creative business from Aotearoa NZ who provide a great service or product I think you would love.This week I'm talking to the Founder of Blank Inspiration, Hadleigh Vernall.Hadleigh AKA Hads talks us through the range of awesome pre framed, primed cotton/linen canvases, available through his Blank online store.

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Jim Wheeler - Veteran Sculptor

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2022/07/27

Jim Wheeler is a veteran NZ sculptor living in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Jim generally works in cast metals such as bronze, aluminium and iron but also uses concrete, ceramics, plastics, wood, stone and fabric- whatever is appropriate to express his ideas.His current work is a blend of botany, biology, and beauty. His interest in plants and how plant communities evolve informs his sculptural practice.Jim has been exhibiting sculpture and drawings since 1979 with eight solo exhibitions and many group

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Lucy Melville - Painter, Business Coach, Creative...

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2022/07/25

Lucy Melville is a painter, creative entrepreneur, business coach and Mum based in Mt Maunganui.Lucy’s work centres around energetic geometric shapes with strong, vibrant colour. Her latest work features some of the most stunning birds found on earth combined with shape and contrasting colour to reflect their spiritual meaning.As well as managing a busy full time art practice Lucy is on a mission to help artists learn the skills to share and sell their art with confidence, combining the key business

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Coral Noel Yang - Multi-disciplinary Artist

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2022/07/20

Coral Noel Yang is a Waitakere-Auckland based, Taiwanese born, multidisciplinary artist who specialises in expressive figurative and abstract paintings with oil and acrylic. Her passion for Aotearoa nature, her Chinese/Japanese heritage, and living and working across the US, Europe and Asia inform her works. Before pivoting to full time painting during Covid in 2020, Coral worked as a film and animation director/producer in Hollywood for 15 years, before pivoting to full time painting during COVID

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Fraser Williamson - Illustrator and Painter

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2022/06/16

Fraser Williamson a.k.a. ‘Fraz’ has had a love of art since he was a young boy and has been creating incredibly distinguishable paintings and illustrations for 35 years. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-with-fraser-williamsonIn the early 1990’s he became known as Red Shark Art and Illustration, putting his dreams and musings to canvas and his love of diversity and the quirky to paper for children’s books.Fraser sees himself as a magpie picking up ideas and styles anywhere from

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Shane Hansen - Artist, Designer of Graphics,...

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2022/06/09

Shane Hansen is an artist, a designer of graphics, furniture and fashion, a loving husband and doting Dad to two boys. Born in New Zealand in the 1970s, he is of Maori (Tainui, Ngaati Mahanga, Ngaati Hine), Chinese, Danish and Scottish descent. Shane is the benefactor of a life lived long and well in Aotearoa. The country is in his blood, in his heart and in his art. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-with-shane-hansenShane’s creations spring from the characters, creatures,

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Helen Dean - Abstract Painter

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2022/06/02

Helen Dean is an artist based in Titirangi, Auckland. Her abstract paintings begin with colour and are created through many layers of paint to build up a surface that is full of life, showing glimpses of what’s underneath, combining gestural brushwork, playful shapes and subtle glazing. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-with-helen-dean https://www.helendeanart.com/Helen explores a range of different marks and techniques, some gestural, some more controlled and the paintings

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Kell Sunshine - Lettering artist, Muralist & Illustrator

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2022/05/26

Kell Sunshine, a.k.a Kelly Spencer, is a lettering artist, muralist & illustrator from Gisborne with a big love for Mother Earth. Her creative style is characterised by bright and retro-fresh colour palettes and curvaceous forms, meticulously hand crafted lettering, and illustrative elements of flora and fauna.https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-with-kell-sunshine“I consider it a privilege to be able to use my creativity to amplify the voice of Mother Earth, with my personal

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Sarah Barton-Hills - Painter and Photographer

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2022/05/19

Sarah Barton-Hills is a painter and photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. As a girl, Sarah was drawn to pattern, colour & texture. She constantly drew, sculpted, photographed, sewed and created with fabric to express her deep fascination with these elements, inspired by her NZ bush clad Waitakere surroundings. Through her career in fashion and textile design, retail, visual merchandising & interiors she has honed her eye for detail, layout, design & colour. As her children have

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Kate Hursthouse - Designer, Painter, Entrepreneur

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2022/05/12

Kate Hursthouse is a New Zealand artist, illustrator, creative entrepreneur and mother of one living in Te Atatū Peninsula, Aotearoa NZ. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-with-kate-hursthouseShe is on a mission to help women find their own place of joy and calm through colour and creativity.Kate has a background in architecture and design and has been running her creative business since 2014. Her work has taken a number of forms over the years, from contemporary artworks,

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Gae Webster - Multi Disciplinary Artist

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2022/05/05

Gae Webster is a multi-disciplinary artist from Auckland in Aotearoa NZ. She works in paint, print, paper, fibre, glass, sculpture and contemporary jewellery from her studio in Pukekohe.Gae's works are all a narration of her views and responses to life – the telling of the story is the focus across all the mediums that she likes to create in and all of her disciplines connect and relate to each other.I talk to Gae in her studio about her incredibly varied practice and all the different media

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Toipoto - Creative Career Mentoring, with Dina Jezdic

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2022/04/28

Toipoto (which means Closer Together in Te Reo Maori)) is a free mentoring programme for the creative sector in Auckland NZ. Developed from The Big Idea's popular Mentoring in the Arts format, Toipoto has been expertly designed for those starting out or looking to build momentum in their creative journey, who are driven to build a sustainable and rewarding career in the arts.Today we are thrilled to be speaking with Dina Jezdic, a mentor and director from Toipoto.Toipoto helps you connect with

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