Barry Brickell & Hamish Keith
“Most normal people would go to bed with a book and a cup of tea but you go to bed with a plank and a lump of clay”
The Cultural Icons first filmed interview took place between writer, potter and conservationist Barry Brickell and Hamish Keith. As long-time friends, the interview brims with warmth, humour, and priceless stories about the arts scene in Auckland, Barry’s pottery techniques, the development of the two men as artists, Barry’s childhood on the North Shore and feeling “highly nostalgic” on his return to Devonport as a Michael King Writers Centre resident (at the time of the interview).
Also see part two of Barry’s interview with Graeme Lay
Barry Brickell Part Two (audio only)
"I bought an acre and a half at Driving Creek with a lovely old dilapidated colonial house...I ripped out the straggly victorian garden and started planting natives"
In Part Two of Barry’s interview – this time with Graeme Lay, we learn more about Barry’s writing and his incredible Driving Creek Railway; a potteries, railway and 22 hectare block of regenerated native forest in Coromandel Town www.drivingcreekrailways.co.nz
Both interviews are available on www.culturalicons.co.nz . Don't forget to join up to the newsletter which will let you know when new Cultural Icons interviews are released.
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