By Isabel Gilbert-Palmer I was magnetised by the originality of Dessa Bluu’s work Heritage on the Artist Gallery wall at the Mercury Bay Art Escape Opening in 2017, gleaming in all its golden glory. It was a brilliant, original, shiny take on an iconic possessions of...
It’s Spring, which means The Coromandel Open Studios Arts Tour is on this month! This is the 18th year of the Arts Tour, which happens every year on the first two weekends of October. This year, it falls on October 5th & 6th and 12th & 13th, with an exhibition...
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
Maururongo [Ron] Te Kawa, a textile artist and educator, came to Coromandel in August to build a creative space in the Coromandel Citizens Hall
The CoroCine Film Festival is the first event in the coromandel artbeat spring festival, which will pull together a series of creative events mapped out across the peninsula
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
Isabel Gilbert talks with Fiona Gates about being a potter versus a ceramist, the sensuality of clay and its raw earthiness, dreams of being a shepherdess and wool crafter, plummeting into ADHD and PTSD, and re-building herself through the journey of uku and connecting to Te Ao Māori, and why you can’t be without your reclaim bucket.
Wailin Elliott and I met at the first Chinese New Zealand Artists Hui, held in 2013 at Corban Estate Arts Centre, where I was the curator. Ten years later I was able to visit Wailin while on a residency at Driving Creek Railway and Pottery. Wailin Elliott is an artist I admire and can relate to as there are distinct parallels between how she forged her practice and the path mine has taken.
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
