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Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich

Mandy Jakich

Conversations with visual artists and arts practitioners from Aotearoa New Zealand

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69:10

Vanessa Fong - Clay Jewellery Artist

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2021/10/15

Vanessa is a young Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland artist who gained a fine arts degree at 20 years old and has worked in Art Galleries and art education since then. She is now 27 and celebrating ONE year in business selling her intricately handmade clay earrings through her Dewdrops brand, informed by her fine art practice in sculpture and installation and her love of painting. Vanessa started making earrings during the first COVID lockdown in 2020 as a creative hobby and suddenly found herself obsessed

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71:28

Jannine Wilkinson and Ann Orman - Writer and...

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2021/10/08

Introducing - Spirit: Conversations with Creative Womenhttps://www.thecreativecollectivespirit.co.nz/ https://www.instagram.com/conversationswithcreativewomenIT ALL BEGAN WHEN….an idea was sparked between two friends, writer Jannine Wilkinson and photographer Ann Orman, to produce a book celebrating creative women in New Zealand. This week the result of this powerful union and vision comes to fruition, with the release of their book Spirit Conversations with Creative Women. Jannine and Ann worked

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67:32

Judy Darragh - Multi Media Artist

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2021/08/16

Judy Darragh is a highly respected NZ artist renowned for her brightly coloured sculptural assemblages of recycled items, industrial materials and found objects, as well as video, collage, photography and poster art. She has exhibited widely since the 1980’s and is well known for her ambitious works which alter public spaces in incredible ways. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections and In 2004 the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa featured a major retrospective of her

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62:27

Donna Massey - Painter

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2021/08/04

Donna is an established full-time artist living and working in Riverhead, Auckland NZ. Her oil paintings are easily recognized for their vibrant crisp images and bold colours.It never occurred to Donna that she could have a career as an artist. She left school to work in a bank where she stayed for twenty years and it wasn't until 2004 that she discovered "what she wanted to be when she grew up” and she hasn’t looked back since.Donna’s love of New Zealand is evident in her painting. She

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74:10

Ingrid Boot - Painter

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2021/07/30

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Gabriella Williams - Painter, Pen and Ink Artist

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/07/23

Gabriella is an artist living in Auckland NZ. She has a super interesting story which I’m sure will be really inspiring to many of you, as despite living amongst creative people, trying out creative ventures over the years and having a creative career in education, it’s only now in her 50s her passion for art has been unleashed and she has developed her own art practice and now finally thinks of herself as an artist..Her paintings often respond to the sea, skies and land of a favourite place,

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69:59

Mandy Flood - Contemporary Jeweller

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2021/07/13

Mandy is a contemporary jeweller from Westmere, Auckland NZ."Everything is on the point of decline" W.G. Sebald "The aesthetics of decay and obsolescence along with the beauty of impermanence forms the impetus for my work. I take the traditional process of enamelling and seek to expand the preconceptions of a finished surface. It is the inclination of time found on the commonplace urban object that I endeavour to express through both manipulation of metal and the indeterminate nature

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77:06

Feeonaa Clifton - Multi-Disciplinary Artist

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/07/10

Feeonaa Clifton (née Wall) is a multi-disciplinary artist and a mother of 3 children of Samoan, Swedish, German and English heritage, living at Muriwai Beach, North West of Auckland..She has a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Pacific) / Diploma in Arts Administration, University of Auckland. Her work has explored indigenous histories and stories, her own identity, wellbeing, and environmental issues through the use of costume, body adornment, dance, poetry, ceremonial activations and more recently

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65:53

Arwen Flowers - Mixed Media Artist

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/07/01

Arwen is a New Zealand-born mixed media artist, raised in the beautiful ranges, forests, and beaches of the West Coast of Auckland. Her recent artwork on canvas utilises a unique mix of media—dressmaking patterns, graphite, charcoal, metallic foil and paint. Through this unique multi-media approach Arwen references landscape and oceanic forms while exploring intersections, crossovers, and parallels between historical and modern European and Pacific Island culture and themes of identity, often from a

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67:45

Amber Emm - Painter

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2021/06/24

Amber Emm is a full time artist from the North West of Auckland NZ, currently painting stunning photo realistic floral oil paintings that celebrate contrast, colour, detail and light.Amber took up painting in 1990 purely for pleasure and became a full time artist in 1995. Then In 1998 positive feedback from a painting demonstration encouraged her to start teaching.Her main inspiration has been boats, the seaside and the coastal fauna and flora of New Zealand. In the last 5 years she has turned her

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Sharon Keightley - Quilt Maker and Pattern Designer

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/06/09

Sharon is a passionate quilt pattern designer and quilt maker from Auckland NZ. A self confessed lover of reproduction fabrics, her favourite thing to do is 'Appliqué' using pieced blocks to complete the quilt. "I simply love to design and make quilts, for me it has been an absolute joy to share my patterns and my fondness of vintage and reproduction fabrics. Experimenting with this range of unique fabric styles allows me to add my own historical vision into my design

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67:41

Emma Farry - Writer, Creative Maker

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2021/06/07

Emma is a writer, photographer, creative maker and meditation practitioner. Her work is all about emotion, and the life of the spirit. She brings this awareness to her work with photography, books and soul stones. Each of her pieces is designed to start a conversation with the heart of the viewer.Emma writes her books and creates her soul stones at her studio overlooking Muriwai Beach and her writing and photography is inspired by the dynamic beauty that surrounds her. She gives thanks for the

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51:32

Kiri Abraham - Painter, pencil and ink artist

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2021/05/28

Kiri Abraham is an artist, mother, gardener, tramper and lover of nature who has lived and worked in Helensville (North West of Auckland NZ) for the past 15 years. She describes her art as ‘drawing’, although it includes painting, printing, stitch and more recently, cutting and burning. Drawing can be both a very simple process, and a complex, multi layered practise, and it is this diversity that attracts Kiri to the medium as a way of expression through mark making. She works by building up a

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64:56

Anna Hanson - Textile, Rope and Embroidery Artist,...

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2021/05/14

With over thirty years’ experience in the arts, as both a practitioner and curator, Anna Hanson strives to empower artists, champion the role of art in society, and transform widely-held perceptions of textile-based projects within the art arena. As a practitioner, Hanson’s work embraces the codes of embroidery ,ropes and textiles. She believes in art as an essential part of a healthy community and, wherever possible, aims to remove the terms ‘traditional’, ‘craft’ and ‘female’ from the art world’s

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65:56

Emma Springford-Gough - Painter

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2021/05/06

Artist Emma Springford-Gough grew up in West Auckland NZ and has lived in Huapai for the last 11 years with her husband, 3 kids, dog, cat and a handful of fish. Making art, drawing specifically, has always been a great part of Emma’s life. She loves drawing and finds it a raw and immediate form of expression. She uses drawing as a tool for documenting objects and interiors that surround her. Ink and brush is her fav medium, but really anything will do in her eyes.Embroidery is another medium Emma

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Jago Neal - Painter, Illustrator, Photographer

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2021/05/02

Jago Neal is a mixed media artist, illustrator and photographer originally from London. He now resides in West Auckland New Zealand. Jago has a small studio at home which also serves as a darkroom. He often incorporates photography into his practice or integrates it with other methods of drawing, collage or painting. "I draw, paint and photograph the world as a form of expression, to help make sense of it, to stay calm and to feed my imagination and my soul. The work I create and the media I

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68:54

Amanda Jakich - Multi-Disciplinary Artist

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/04/24

Amanda Jakich (Mandy) is a self taught abstract painter and the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters. She is the proud mother of 2 young adults (with a grand baby on the way) and lives with her husband George at Muriwai Beach, North West of Auckland.Mandy's work responds to her surroundings, particularly to the seas, skies, land and nature of her home place Muriwai Beach NZ. She is drawn to simple form and design, colour and composition and enjoys experimenting with different materials, ideas

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60:27

Marion Stutz - Painter

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/04/15

Marion Stutz is a painter living in Huapai, Auckland NZ. In the last 5 years she has gone from being a creative interested in art with a great appreciation for all things arty and a love of making to a practising artist who already has her first solo show under her belt.Marion's work is all about colour and form, explored through landscapes, portraiture and still life and inspired by artists such as Henri Matisse, Mark Chagall and Rita Angus.- Join Mandy in a conversation with Marion Stutz.

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57:08

Catrina Lloyd - Painter

Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich ·

2021/04/07

Catrina is an abstract painter from Muriwai Beach, North West of Auckland, with a passion for interpreting the many layers of her natural environment. Whenever she is outside in Muriwai she can't help but see endless paintings, endless textures, colours, lines, shapes, light and movement, and so much west coast energy.She enjoys translating what she sees through exploring different techniques using paint, ink, dye, pastel, pen and pencil.Ngā mihi, thanks for listening!See the artist's work

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61:07

Marlon Hart - Illustrator

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2021/03/31

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