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Spring is almost here, and that means the start of the 3rd coromandel artbeat spring festival! Yes, it’s hard to believe, but we’re in round 3 already! Woop-woop!

In her solo exhibition of retrospective and contemporary work and aptly subtitled ‘A Textural Exhibition of an Exploration of Plant Dyes’, the artist wants to show the vast range of colour that can be obtained from plant dyes and earth pigments…

Sofia Tekela-Smith is a New Zealand-Rotuman artist specialising in jewellery and body adornments. Many may recall her stunning garland in the Art is Identity exhibition in Kūaotunu and Kapanga this past January. Sofia just returned from New York where her work is on show at the Oceania Gallery in the MET.

Over the coming months, we’ve decided to share the enthusiastically received exhibition, Art Is Identity. Our first choice is a long-held historical and collaborative pair: the delightful, talented, and humble Louisa Humphry and Kaetaeta Watson.

After eight years of dedicated service, Bernie Ross has retired from her role as an original Trustee of He Mana Toi Moehau Trust/ Creative Coromandel. A respected figure in the Whangamatā arts community, Bernie is widely known for her beautiful harakeke weaving and her passionate advocacy for Toi Māori/ Māori art.