Join Beth Torrance-Hetherington and Sofia Roger Williams for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!
Chris Riddell is a world-renowned illustrator and author of children’s books and the political cartoonist for the Observernewspaper. He has collaborated with artists and writers such as Neil Gaiman, Phoebe Bridgers and Frances Hardinge. In 2018 he travelled to Aotearoa to speak at the Auckland Writers Festival. Most recently, Chris has releasedI Can’t Remember What We Talked About, a slim volume of 24 poems.
Beth and Chris chat about the creative process of art-making and poetry writing, love of nature, designing pop-up books for the backdrop of Phoebe Bridgers’ tour and magical pear tree staffs. Chris reads some poems and they also speak about what it’s like being a political cartoonist in the current political climate.
Nicholas speaks to Zoë Colling, one of the curators of That’s so last century, a new exhibition at the Auckland City library that explores New Zealand fashion from the 1950s-1990s.
Beth speaks to world-renowned illustrator and author of children’s books and the political cartoonist for the Observer, Chris Riddell, about his new volume of poems, I Can’t Remember What We Talked About.
To end the show, Nicholas speaks to Louise Menzies an artist featured in Eight thousand layers of moments, an exhibition hosted at Gus Fisher Gallery.
That’s so last century: What we wore 1950s – 1990s is an exhibition that explores New Zealand’s fashion history.
The exhibition contains photographs, magazines, LPs, trade catalogues, manuscripts, clothing patterns, and books held in Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections that give insight to our fashion habits from the middle to the end of the 20th century.
Nicholas spoke to one of the exhibition's curators, Zoë Colling, about the curation process.
Alice Canton speaks to Rewa Fowles about Realm of Tears, performed by takatāpui Māori/ Pākehā multidisciplinary artist and dance movement therapy practitioner Rewa Fowles.
underfoot is a group exhibition including works by Māori, Aboriginal and Pākehā artists from Aotearoa and Australia for which whenua (organic earth matter) is utilised in a range of poetic ways to quite literally give body and voice to the land.
Beth spoke to artist Yasmine Smith, whose work features in underfoot, about the significance of art and different perspectives in the context of an ecological crisis. They also spoke about Yasmine’s own artistic processes.
underfoot runs from March 9th to May 12th at Te Uru Art Gallery in Titirangi.
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a wholesome and atmospheric game based on the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. The core inspiration of the game’s storyline comes from the book Moominsummer Madness (1954).
Beth spoke with the developer of the game and CEO at Hyper Games, Are Sundnes, about the process of putting it all together and how he went about striking the right tone.
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is now available to play on Steam or Nintendo Switch.