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Early New Zealand Photography

Otago University Press — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:09:56 +1300

We are all participants in an increasingly visual culture, yet we rarely give thought to the ways in which photographs shape our experience and understanding of the world and historical past.

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Dunedin Soundings: Place and Performance

Otago University Press — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:48 +1300

The ‘Dunedin Sound’ of the 1980s is a phenomenon known throughout the world. But what does Dunedin musicmaking sound like in the 21st century?

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Scriptwriting for Video Games and Digital Media

NZ Writers College — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:45:32 +1300

Want to write scripts for the fastest growing writing industry in the world?

The gaming and interactive media industries generate more than $15 billion per annum in the US alone. A key reason why people buy a game or use interactive media is the quality of the script. Read More »

Leopard

The Basement — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:54:32 +1300

“WE HOPE IT MEANS MORE THAN JUST F**KING AND LYING” Read More »

'Highland Hope'

katierobinson — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:58:42 +1300

'Highland Hope'

22" × 28" on a stretched box canvas.

Handcut stencil and acrylic. Read More »

NZSoS 2012: Call For Proposals by Rob Garrett

NZ Sculpture OnShore — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:37:04 +1300

NZ Craft Beer TV - Mash Up - Episode 6 - West Coast

NZCraftBeerTV — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:48:42 +1300

Episode 6 - Continuing north through the amazing scenery of the South Island's West Coast, we arrive in Westport, and visit the West Coast Brewery. Brewer Dave Kurth shows us around the brewery, and gives us a taste of his great beers. Including the hoppy Pale Ale. Read More »

Post Office Bay

Nature Sounds of New Zealand — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:35:26 +1300

New Zealand Nature Sounds MP3 downloads for sale.

Relax for 22 mins and listen to the soothing sound of the waves in Post Office Bay, Ulva Island.

Pure Nature Sounds from New Zealand for relaxation and meditation, with no music or narration. Read More »

Tawharanui Morning

Nature Sounds of New Zealand — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:12:04 +1300

New Zealand Nature Sounds MP3 downloads for sale.

Escape to Tawharanui for an hour and listen to the relaxing birdsong of Tui & Bellbirds.

Pure Nature Sounds from New Zealand for relaxation and meditation, with no music or narration. Read More »

Ngahere a Moana

Nature Sounds of New Zealand — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:52:05 +1300

New Zealand Nature Sounds MP3 downloads for sale.

Pure Nature Sounds from New Zealand for relaxation and meditation, with no music or narration.

Available online now at http://naturesounds.co.nz

Cast Glass by Di Tocker

NZGLASS — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:48:53 +1200

ALL GLASS - A New Zealand Experience

NZGLASS — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:38:00 +1200

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Cultural Icon Claudia Pond Eyley

The Depot — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:47:14 +1200

“If there has ever been an artist who shows us that art is a community project, it is she.” Denys Trussell

Artist and filmmaker Claudia Pond Eyley is interviewed by her friend the poet, writer, pianist and ecologist, Denys Trussell for the Cultural Icons project. www.culturalicons.co.nz Read More »

Going West Writers' Festival

AwaPress — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:07:42 +1200

Auckland City Council hosts the 2011 Going West Writers' Festival, August to September 2011.

Hear Rebecca Priestley, Spiro Zavos, Steve Braunias and Jane Bowron talk about their work.

Rebecca Priestley - 10 Sep at 3.15pm; 11 Sep at 12.15pm
Spiro Zavos - 11 Sep at 2pm
Steve Braunias - 10 Sep at 5pm
Jane Bowron - 10 Sep at 5pm

The Third Hong Kong Festival in Auckland

Bevan Chuang — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:49:16 +1200

Over 100 people celebrated the landing of a classic Hong Kong in Auckland last week with the official opening of Hong Kong Festival at the Art Gallery.

Officially opened by Auckland Mayor Len Brown, he was pleased to be part of a multi-cultural event that adds to what Auckland has to offer.

“Auckland is a united city; it shouldn’t be seen as a gateway to New Zealand. Read More »

Late Night at the Adam Art Gallery

adamartgal — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:12:30 +1200

//From this Thursday 4 August the Adam Art Gallery will open late until 8pm on the first Thursday of every month! Read More »

400 Year Sunrise

Alex DiMercurio — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:35:38 +1200

400 Year Instant

Alex DiMercurio — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:32:46 +1200

400 Year Moment

Alex DiMercurio — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:30:24 +1200

Carver / Sculptor Pounamu & Bone

Anne Eddy — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:38:58 +1200

Vaudeville

JocelenJ — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:36:05 +1200

The online book "Vaudeville" is the result of several months of work by photographers Bryan Lowe and Jocelen Janon. Read More »

Seems I Might Be Human

samRB — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:53:17 +1200

Are you Feeling Nostalgic? Poetry exhibition

kayebird — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:20:44 +1200

Exhibition opening Wednesday 27th July at 6.30pm.

Exhibition runs until the 17th of August. Read More »

NZ Writers College Competition Closing Soon

NZ Writers College — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:03:02 +1200

Malcolm White

malcolm White — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:25:48 +1200

Graphic artist and visualiser

No Relent

The Saturn Door — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:01:45 +1200

She Sat In Sunshine

The Saturn Door — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:53:13 +1200

Sam Hunt at Film Talk Rialto

Foton Distribution — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:30:38 +1200

SAM HUNT: PURPLE BALLOON AND OTHER STORIES

6pm film start - special Q&A to follow
Special performance by Sam Hunt and an exclusive Q&A with Tim Rose (filmmaker), CK Stead, Karyn Hay following the screening. Read More »

Lorraine Rastorfer: Deluge (2011)

milfordhouse — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:14:55 +1200

In ‘Deluge’, Lorraine Rastorfer investigates the role of water and liquidity both as an element and in the physical creation of a painting. Moving on from her previous examination of air as a shaping force, the works in ‘Deluge’ are flooded with pearlescent paint. Rastorfer determines the overall process but allows serendipity to direct where pigment pools and settles. Read More »

Rosa Bowl

justin culina — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:32:37 +1200

Rosa bowl Lg. This is an example of a beautiful new colour that Gaffer glass has created.

NOP.nz orchestra will begin Friday 6 May

NOP.nz — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:32:35 +1200

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMT OF PLAYING MUSIC WITH A JOYSTICK?
Join NOP.nz orchestra and embark on an amazing journey across sound, image, technology and culture!

WHAT? Read More »

BRUCE HUNT: The Backlands (2011)

milfordhouse — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:54:37 +1200

The politics of use - current and past - is as present in Bruce Hunt’s exhibition “The Backlands” as rhythm of line, casting light, emergent shadow and the tectonic structure of the alpine landscape of Central Otago. Read More »

GALIA AMSEL: Shades of Blue and Clear (2011)

milfordhouse — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:32:23 +1200

A “gentle change” is occurring in Galia Amsel’s glass. It’s been in process for some while. From 2004, when she moved to NZ, narratives of landscape and natural event emerged, adding expressive and atmospheric qualities to the triangulated, geometric shapes and abstract substance existing. Read More »

Write Your Memoir Course at NZ Writers College

NZ Writers College — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:58:21 +1300

Everyone is said to have at least one book in them: the story of their life.

Capture all those colourful stories of people and experiences from your past by writing your memoir. Read More »

Write a Novel Course at NZ Writers' College

NZ Writers College — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:45:40 +1300

Take on the challenge of a 12- to 24-month novel writing course tutored by multi ward-winning novelists Charlotte Randall, Sonny Whitelaw, Alex Smith, and Louis Greenberg.

The course covers everything you need to write your manuscript - chapter by chapter. Read More »

Elizabeth Rees: A Short Walk... (2011)

milfordhouse — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:50:32 +1300

Elizabeth Rees’ new exhibition 'A Short Walk From My Brother's Bach' is a twelve part poem to summer, light and being at the beach.

In the past Rees work has characteristically been atmospheric in character. This exhibition demonstrates a broad range of skills and (again) her virtuoso handling of paint. Read More »

Colour grader needed for kiwi feature

kayrayner — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:28:21 +1300

Garry Currin: Various Distances Apart (2011)

milfordhouse — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:59:46 +1300

To suggest Garry Currin is a magician wielding paint is to touch lightly upon his unrivalled capacity to combine as one the notionally disparate. We see abstraction and (apparent) elements of photo-realism inextricably linked (Smoke and Dreaming, 2010). In other works, (Various Distances Apart I, 2008-10 and Fire at Ephesus II, 2010), architecture and atmosphere unite the linear and organic. Read More »

Callum Arnold: Sojourn (2011)

milfordhouse — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:15:38 +1300

Producing dynamic compositions that achieve a synthesis of landscape painting and abstraction through gestural painted marks and complex layering of visual elements, Callum Arnold is establishing himself as a significantly skilled and confident painter. Read More »

Film screening: Clairmont on Clairmont

Auckland Art Gallery — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:01:43 +1300

Clairmont on Clairmont is a personal exploration of one of New Zealand's most powerful painters, Philip Clairmont, by his son Orlando.

Producer: Michele Fantl.
Director: Orlando Clairmont.
50 minutes.

3pm, Art Lounge - free entry.

Image of Orlando Clairmont courtesy of M.F Films Limited

Film screening: Tony Fomison

Auckland Art Gallery — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:26:01 +1300

A screening of Bruce Morrison's documentary on the artist Tony Fomison (1939 - 1990). Originally trained as a sculptor, Fomison is better known for his painting and is now one of New Zealand's most highly regarded artists who, through his art, redefined this country's unique South Pacific identity. Read More »

The Great NZ Memory Game

Lena — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:30:01 +1300

The Great NZ Memory Game is made in New Zealand and illustrated by Neil Bond. This is a classic kiwi game and will soon be found in most kiwi baches next to scrabble and connect4. Printed on recycled card using vegetable inks. Read More »

Rowan Klevstul: Wet Colour

The Depot — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:20:10 +1300

Rowan is constantly inspired by the momentary play of light on breaking waves – water moving in its most dynamic form. Read More »

The Night Gallery presents: Kiwi Animation

The Depot — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:12:44 +1300

Independent filmmaker, curator and writer Martin Rumsby, presents a screening series of historic and contemporary independent New Zealand films as part of a collaboration with the Depot Artspace and Satellite Gallery (le petit cinema), on their Night Gallery project. Read More »

Reservoir Hill returns for an all-new season

TVNZ — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:04:47 +1200

TVNZ’s Digital Emmy Award-winning drama, Reservoir Hill, returns to TVNZ.CO.NZ for an all-new season from Monday September 13 - Reservoir Hill: Everyone Lies. Read More »

Small Works (2010)

milfordhouse — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:30:01 +1200

The Small Works exhibition involves nine prominent artists.

Joanna Braithwaite’s new series “Good Sports 1-7” demonstrates her characteristic, unique mastery of humour and a remarkable painterly ability to combine human foibles with animal character. Read More »

WAYNE BARRAR: Contact Topographies (2010)

milfordhouse — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:30:30 +1200

Barrar uses the fracturing lenses of NZ's history, the passages of time, the layered languages of environmental anthropology, the traditions of colonial art and the processes of early photography as integral elements of works which are assiduously examining how our land is now. Read More »

Russian Snark - NZ/Russian Film World Premiere

rachelchoy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:20:24 +1200

Russian Snark The Movie

Written and directed by Stephen Sinclair, produced by Liz Difiore, Godzone Snark Productions Ltd.

Buy your tickets from www.ticketek.co.nz and then you can enter the competition to win tickets to an exclusive cast & crew after-party! Read More »

Art Holiday in New Zealand

artschoolnz — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:38:23 +1200

Programme Read More »

NZ Prints - New Zealand's top selling art prints in 2009

prints — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:59:33 +1200

Celebration of New Zealand's top selling prints by NZ artists in 2009. Featuring art prints by NZ painters and printmakers like Dick Frizzell, Ralph Hotere, Rita Angus, Bill Hammond, Grahame Sydney, Diana Adams and C.F Goldie. Find out what was New Zealand's most popular print in 2009.

Simon Clark: A New Coat of Paint (2010)

milfordhouse — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:21:44 +1200

Simon Clark’s paintings are a collision of cultural artefact and text and conjure mythical stories through associations within their subject matter. Clark explores the role of kiwiana in a cultural context, asking why and how it has become a part of New Zealand’s history and identity. His paintings portray re-constructed realities, memories unfolding, and histories evolving. Read More »

NEAL PALMER: Woven Paths (2010)

milfordhouse — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:11:45 +1200

Neal Palmer establishes pattern by using repetition, scale exaggeration, the tension of intersecting angles, the sliding geometry of arcs and the power of line. His blend of naturalism and elements of photo-realism traverses the tradition of botanical painting with demonstrably brilliant technique. Read More »

Young and Hungry Festival

BATS — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:07:04 +1200

Song of Four Read More »

The Cow Next Door

katierobinson — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:12:22 +1200

Art work from www.katierobinson.co.nz

The inquisitive cow next door. He came to say hello through the fence one day!

Stewart Island/Rakiura

Poetry Out West Press — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:25 +1200

A rare Hector’s dolphin
rides the bow of Lo Loma
returning to Halfmoon Bay -
everything is rare on Rakiura.
even the locals
born from rugged resignation
and angry moans
stand stoic, proud
wild as the South Sea Read More »

Celebrating our Cultural Icons

jamradio — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:01:06 +1200

Jam Radio interviews with iconic New Zealanders who have shaped our arts & culture scene.

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Luke Cederman surfing in NZ and Sumbawa

Undergrown Productions — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:22:50 +1200

http://innersection.tv/video/120 - log onto this site and vote. Help Luke become the first Kiwi on Taylor Steeles next film, Innersections!

South Island Roadtrip

D_Fowler — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:09:31 +1200

Check out the latest clips I edited for a promotional travel diary around the South Island.

G-Ville International Issue 2 Released

adpotaka — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:15:19 +1200

The second issue of G-Ville International magazine was released from the press this week.

This issue carries commentary on change; what needs to change and how to change. Phil Orr gives some suggestions.

Phil Quniton sends his peice in from the United Kingdom, telling it how it is in the north, as another Winter of Discontent possibly looms. Read More »

NIGEL BROWN: Selected Works

milfordhouse — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:27:41 +1200

Nigel Brown is undoubtedly New Zealand’s most significant narrative artist. Each painting tells a story in a characteristic style which unites the past and present, the social and political, human spirit and endeavour. Read More »

DICK FRIZZELL: Works on Paper

milfordhouse — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:19:44 +1200

Chief amongst Dick Frizzell’s numerous attributes is his remarkable ability to move almost seamlessly from one style (mode of expression) to another. Read More »

Mickey to Tiki by Dick Frizzell

prints — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:15 +1300

Richard (Dick) Frizzell (1943- ) is one of New Zealand's most successful and high profile contemporary artists. Frizzell studied art at the Canterbury School of Arts from 1960-1964 and was employed in advertising before moving to Auckland to lecture at Elam School of Fine Arts. Read More »

G-Ville International launched in Wanganui

adpotaka — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:30:10 +1300

G-Ville International magazine was launched with its release from the press yesterday. The news and fashion magazine is published by Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, and printed by H&A Design and Print, both in Wanganui, New Zealand. Read More »

Sculpture OnShore 2010

ben-foster — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:44:39 +1300

NZ Sculpture OnShore 2010 November 4 – 14

Raising Funds for NZ Women’s Refuges

Gulf views frame sculpture Read More »

KARL MAUGHAN: The Lost Path (2010)

milfordhouse — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:25:59 +1300

There is a sharp sense of place and of ‘being there’ in the paintings of The Lost Path.

In the wonderful “Ormond Road” the garden not only encircles but also towers over. Afternoon light falls along the path, but the compositional elements in the painting are such that the viewer comes to realise she is looking upon this while standing in shadow. Read More »

John Parker: BLACK + WHITE + RED (2010)

milfordhouse — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:13:29 +1300

John Parker is undoubtedly one of New Zealand’s foremost ceramic artists. Read More »

German Film Festival NZ - Andreas Dresen on his visit in New Zealand

Goethe Institut — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:53:19 +1300

2009 marks twenty years since the fall of the wall. The German Film Festival brought twenty films from the past two decades to cinemagoers in New Zealand, 19 000 kilometres away. 20 years and 20 films – entertaining and thrilling and at the same time witnesses to the momentous historic change after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Read More »

Film about the first ever German Film Festival in New Zealand 2009

Goethe Institut — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:42:48 +1300

ABC guide to the 2011 Rugby World Cup

martinadlington — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:55:59 +1300

An altered book photographed & posted to Youtube as a video. individually-made hard copies of the book are available for $US30 ea - contact me for details

Michael Travis - Director's Showreel

Michael Travis — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:32:31 +1300

I'm a New Zealand film-maker, recently based in London. This is a showreel featuring clips from my dramatic work (short films and music videos). Read More »

The year collides

Philip Patston — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:05:09 +1300

Though he envisaged something different at the start, when he looks back at the year of The Creative Collide, in some chaotic and unstructured way Philip Patston feels he's achieved what he set out to do. Because he said so. Read More »

Birdbrain: A tribute to native birds

Fatcat & Fishface — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:46:22 +1300

Birdbrain, the new CD from Fatcat & Fishface, is a tribute to the greatest singers in New Zealand...our native birds.

It features 13 sparkling original songs in honour of our feathered friends.
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NZ media – too safe for inclusion?

Philip Patston — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:47 +1300

Philip Patston argues that media inclusion of disabled people takes intentional risk and, right now, the New Zealand media is playing it way too safe. Read More »

Birdbrain has landed

fatcatfishface — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:09:00 +1300

Birdbrain, the new CD from Fatcat & Fishface, is a tribute to the greatest singers in New Zealand ... our native birds.

It features 13 sparkling original songs in honour of our feathered friends. Read More »

Make-up artist required for music video

NZFilmMaker — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:34:44 +1300

Who knows ya, baby?

Philip Patston — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:15:03 +1300

Philip Patston attends the Survive and Thrive creative sector forum and wonders whether business success really is all about who knows you, rather than 'who you know'.
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Executive Director

sounz_music — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:32:24 +1300

To collaborate...or not?

Philip Patston — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:07:10 +1300

By Philip Patston

Collaboration. It's the buzz at the moment. Funders want it. Government wants it. Business wants it. I want it...

Or do I?
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Showreel of Gabor Kukucska

outliner — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:53:25 +1300

This is my showreel should anyone be interested. Working on new documentary at the moment so please visit : www.kiwiseeds.film-nz.com for more info.

Snapshot: 1970's New Zealand Painting

HCAG — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:32:50 +1300

Think about the 1970s and orange and brown interiors and bellbottoms spring quickly to mind. But what were New Zealand artists painting and thinking about? Read More »

Elton John in New Zealand: Behind the Scenes

M THEORY — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:55:05 +1300

A unique look into the world of sound engineering and live concert production, filmed at Pukekura Park in New Plymouth on December 6th, 2007 during Elton's solo tour. This film is also featured on the official Elton John website, eltonjohn.com.

Highlife NYE Experience 08/09: Official Video

M THEORY — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:48:24 +1300

The official video of the Highlife New Years Eve Experience festival 08/09 in the beautiful location of Matakana, New Zealand.

Wedding Photo

Shots Photography — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:08:26 +1200

Photograph of a bride on a West coast beach on a stormy wet wedding day.

www.urbaum.com

Joanna Do — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:01:18 +1200

Urbaum is a project designed by Dan Florin Spataru and launched in June 2009. Updated with new series every week, the website presents the artist's photographic works. It is a virtual place for exploring the extraordinary beauty of nature and mainly the New Zealand landscape.

Paper Boats

Lynn Taylor — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:28:11 +1200

This paper boat project, instigated by Lynn Taylor (New Zealand) and Joanne Kaar (Scotland) is creating global interest. Begun to commerate the maiden voyage of the Westland to Port Chalmers in 1879 and to support Mary- Ann's cottage in Scotland the blog records all boats sent in. You are invited to send in a paper boat before August 10th and be part of teh Caithness exhibition. Read More »

www.myspace.com/bsidemagazine

FionaL — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:09:06 +1200

b>side is a publication for New Zealand music and is published by Tony Nyberg and Fiona Lascelles. Read More »

Corbett and Lovegrove LIVE!

ElissaDee — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:09:55 +1200

AWESOMENESS INTERNATIONAL Presents... Read More »

Emerging opera artists perform new works

Sally Woodfield — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:04:41 +1300

New works by six New Zealand composers, written especially for six emerging opera artists, will be premiered at a special Auckland Philharmonia Concert on Saturday night. Read More »