The amazing results of three years of engagement will be showcased during the four-day exhibition at Hauraki House Gallery Coromandel. In addition, there will be fun ‘have-a-go-drop-in’ art workshops on each day.
The main purpose of To The Front is to empower youth by providing them with knowledge and practical skills in a safe and supportive environment.
Once upon a time, in a delightfully quirky town hugging a sandy shoreline, the Gold Mining Town of Thames strutted onto the scene! Bursting with heritage, culture, and artistic flair, it became the perfect backdrop for the very first Steampunk the Thames Festival in 2015!
Maururongo [Ron] Te Kawa, a textile artist and educator, came to Coromandel in August to build a creative space in the Coromandel Citizens Hall
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.
A Masters of Science in Art psychotherapy gave Shannon the perfect way to combine her interest in working with people, and her love of art.
Following extensive consultation with the country’s arts sectors during 2023, in early 2024, Creative New Zealand (CNZ) announced a new funding programme, replacing its traditional monthly, highly contested Arts Grants model, which sometimes closed within days of opening.
Some days later after our earlier conversation I visited Roi’s Matariki Art Show tucked away in a corner of Kuaotunu village. This was his first solo show with only his work on show and it gave plenty of time to wander, focus and compare his various styles and works.
A few days before Roimata’s Mataraki weekend art show, he agreed to meet up and kōrero about his work and his memories about his first exhibition and his work, prior to what would be his first local solo show.
Raewyn Helms-Davis’s Art Loft is wedged into the corner garden of her home in central Whitianga. An address she has had since 2014, when she moved from Auckland to focus on her work as a full-time artist.
