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Creative Connections

Mandy Jakich

Conversations with visual artists and arts practitioners from Aotearoa New Zealand

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Sara Langdon - Contemporary Artist

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2025/02/19

Sara Langdon is a contemporary New Zealand landscape artist living in Beachlands, East of Auckland. Sara currently draws inspiration from the beauty of familiar and distinct volcanic landmarks around Auckland city and the Waitemata Harbour.The New Zealand landscape is Sara's source of inspiration and reason for painting. Sara paints places she is connected to and loves, places she wants to explore and respond to so that people who feel this same connection are able to enjoy a tangible r...

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85:44

James Watkins - Painter

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2025/02/06

Born in Oxford in the UK in 1984, James Watkins moved to Auckland, New Zealand at a young age, kicking off a lifelong journey of travel and creative exploration. James thinks of his intuitive painting practice as limitless and sees defining his practice as a certain style or describing himself as a certain type of artist as restrictive and unnecessary.In this episode James shares how he never really felt creative as a young person but discovered photography in his late teens. From photographing

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75:44

Delainy Jamahl - Visual artist & creative technologist

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2025/01/26

Working at the intersection of art and technology, Delainy Jamahl's art practice focuses on data as the central narrative. He creates immersive and interactive installations that explore and visualise, transforming complex information into engaging visual experiences.It was lovely to meet Delainy and to speak with a creative technology artist - the first of his kind on the podcast! In this episode we explore the creative and technical routes he took and the great influence an artist mentor ha...

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98:42

Anna Gibbs - Conservation Artist

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2025/01/19

Anna Gibbs is a contemporary painter living in Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch in the South Island of Aotearoa NZ. If you search her name on Google you'll see she is described as an "internet personality" which probably comes from the amazing work she does on the Instagram social media platform and her loyal audience of more than 100,000 followers.Anna is interested in conservation and fortunate to live on a rural lifestyle-block populated by many native birds and plants. Her oil

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96:59

Alex Wilkinson - Ceramic Artist and entrepreneur

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2024/12/16

Welcome to episode 155, the final episode of 2024. Ngā mihi nui Thank you so much for listening and for your support this year. I hope the podcast has cheered you up, motivated you, inspired you, affirmed what you do or educated you in some small way.As you probably know, the CM podcast is largely self funded. However, I now have a way for you to show your support if you'd like to, by making a small donation of 3, 5, 8, or 10 dollars every month. There is a link in my podcast Instagram profil...

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77:46

Roy Mason from Fingers Contemporary Jewellery Collective

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2024/12/08

Established in 1974 by a group of young jewellery makers to promote their work, Fingers has become synonymous with innovation and originality and the development of an indigenous style of contemporary New Zealand jewellery. Fingers has been at the forefront of treating and displaying the craft object as art, and has constantly challenged the notion of what is precious. As the oldest contemporary jewellery gallery in New Zealand, Fingers has become an institution recognised locally and in...

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98:03

Bailee Lobb - Sculpture, installation and performance...

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2024/12/01

Bailee Lobb is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 and now based in Wellington. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with textiles, colour, and movement to create sculpture, installation, and performance artworks that explore art as disability access and care.In this enlightening episode Bailee talks about how she felt as a teenager, as a person who was dealing with undiagnosed autism and how her artwork now responds to and nurtures her disability. She shares how she

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84:21

Julie Battisti - Painter

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2024/11/24

Julie Battisti is a painter who grew up in Melbourne Australia and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband in 2017, settling first in Rawene in the North Island then going on to make Dunedin her home.Julie's paintings currently have two significant themes; clouds and flowers. Both are studies of light and texture. In this episode Julie shares how she sources and chooses the flowers she paints, how she creates her floral compositions and her floral painting process from underpainting and

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71:17

Chris Melville - Photographer

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2024/11/17

Chris Melville is a photographer, graphic designer and jazz musician living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. In his latest photographic collection, Chris uses household items and a slow shutter speed to create landscape compositions, suggesting dreamy lakes or mountains appearing from the mist. Chris currently works with linen, denim, smooth cotton and coarse hessian, creating visual layers and textures. The resulting images, while being made entirely of practical human-made objects, speak ...

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81:51

Ross Jones - Painter

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2024/11/10

Ross Jones is a painter creating works that evoke a heady sense of nostalgia and elevated playfulness, living in Snells Beach on the east coast north of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.Each meticulously devised painting offers hints at various narratives as the artist invites the viewer to engage with his role as storyteller.I loved meeting Ross and chatting to him. We talk about Ōtaki on the Kapiti Coast of Aotearoa where he grew up and the things he loves about where he now lives at Snells Beach. He

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78:54

Cathy Carter - Photographic + multi media conceptual...

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2024/11/03

Cathy Carter is a photographic and multimedia conceptual artist, living in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Cathy's art is inspired by concerns about climate change and our evolving relationship with bodies of water as physical, cultural, and unique environmental ‘landscapes’ and investigates our complex psychological relationship to water through different perspectives and geographical locations.Cathy and I have a lovely chat which I know you'll enjoy and I just loved our time together. We talk about

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101:03

Jeff Thomson - Sculptor

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2024/10/28

Jeff Thomson is a sculptor living in the little suburb of Helensville, in the north west of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is well known for his corrugated iron animals, birds, cars and people as well as NZ icons like the Taihape gumboot and the Holden in our national Museum Te Papa, and is often referred to as the corrugated iron man of Australasia.Unconventional, humorous, challenging, iconic and ironic, the sculpture of Jeff Thomson has given a whole new perspective to corrugated iron in the New

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63:42

Emma Hercus - Figurative Painter

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2024/10/20

Emma Hercus is a painter born in Hastings and now living in Plimmerton, just north of Wellington.The everchanging ocean and its view from her home serve as constant reference points in Emma's narrative abstract figurative paintings.I loved talking to Emma. We talk about her early influences and inspiration from family as she was growing up, the amazing basketry and weaving practice she developed when she first decided to get back into being creative after having kids - which after a number of...

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GUEST UPDATE: Kylie Rusk

Creative Connections ·

2024/10/15

Today I'm catching up with painter, printmaker Kylie Rusk to see what she's been up to since I last spoke to her in March 2021.Listen to Kylie's first chat on the podcast in episode 2:https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-on-air-with-kylie-ruskYou can see her work at her upcoming group show ELEMENTS at Turua GalleryOctober 18th - 30th 2024https://turuagallery.co.nz/collections/kylie-ruskText Mandy - leave your name and email so I can get back to you!Support the

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70:17

Gilly Sheffield - Contemporary Artist

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2024/10/13

Gilly Sheffield is a sculptor | weaver living in both Glendowie in Auckland and Wanaka in the South Island. After a lifetime of making, it was only a few years ago that Gilly developed a more specific art practice using corrugated iron and started to see herself as an artist. In this episode Gilly shares how she came upon this very iconic NZ material, corrugated iron, how she sources it (with help from her 'Iron Rescue Collective' friends) and the stories this medium tells for her.She

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56:29

Sue and Karen Gardiner from the Chartwell Trust

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2024/10/06

Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and creative thinking for our future and our wellbeing. The Chartwell Trust was set up in the early 1970s by Robert Gardiner, then a Hamilton businessman and accountant, as a charitable trust to realise Chartwell's vision for wider access to and deeper understanding of creative visual thinking.The

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124:45

Levi Hawken - Contemporary sculptor

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2024/09/29

Levi Hawken is a brutalist | modernist sculptor living and working in west Auckland. His practice includes sculpture in concrete, glass, wood and bronze as well as painting.As a skateboarder, Levi understands the undeniable attraction of the urban concrete landscape. His work responds to the forms and elements of this environment.In this very authentic conversation Levi takes us through his extraordinary life from early graffiti days and his world of skating to his appearances on TV and in film and

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103:02

Di Tocker - Sculptural glass artist

Creative Connections ·

2024/09/22

Di Tocker is a sculptural glass artist living and working from her purpose built studio in Cambridge, in the Waikato.Di maintains a structured approach to her art practice and business. She provides work for 5 galleries throughout New Zealand, and undertakes commissions for private residences and commercial projects. Di loves to connect with people who enjoy her glass work and welcomes visitors to her studio by appointment.In this episode we chat about how Di discovered her love of working wi...

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75:26

Ronja Schipper - Re:purpose Ronja

Creative Connections ·

2024/09/15

Ronja Schipper has been lovingly making up-cycled art objects since 2015. She lives in the Waitakere Ranges in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.Ronja uses waste materials for creating design pieces, aiming to highlight the relationship with our at-risk environment & its resources. All pieces are hand made in NZ from discarded bike innertube, cleaned, polished & enhanced with new findings.Ronja was born in Munich, Germany and is a creative all-rounder with 20 years experience in the publishing,

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83:11

Mandy Patmore - Mixed-media environmental artist

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2024/09/09

Mandy Patmore is a multi-media environmental artist living in Karekare, on Auckland’s west coast. Primarily a painter, Mandy's current work focuses largely on deforestation and habitat loss in New Zealand, and the plight of many endangered native species, whilst exploring themes of colonisation and human impact on our landscape.I find the work Mandy does in the community, with the environment and her own art practice super inspiring and this is a fantastic episode I know you'll gain many

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