Creative Connections

Welcome to episode 155, the final episode of 2024. Ngā mihi nui Thank you so much for listening and for your support this year. I hope the podcast has cheered you up, motivated you, inspired you, aff…

Established in 1974 by a group of young jewellery makers to promote their work, Fingers has become synonymous with innovation and originality and the development of an indigenous style of contemporar…

Bailee Lobb is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 and now based in Wellington. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with textiles, colour, and movement to create sculp…

Julie Battisti is a painter who grew up in Melbourne Australia and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband in 2017, settling first in Rawene in the North Island then going on to make Dunedin h…

Chris Melville is a photographer, graphic designer and jazz musician living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. 

In his latest photographic collection, Chris uses household items and a slow shutter speed to…

Ross Jones is a painter creating works that evoke a heady sense of nostalgia and elevated playfulness, living in Snells Beach on the east coast north of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Each meticulously de…

Cathy Carter is a photographic and multimedia conceptual artist, living in Grey Lynn, Auckland. 

Cathy's art is inspired by concerns about climate change and our evolving relationship with bodies of w…

Jeff Thomson is a sculptor living in the little suburb of Helensville, in the north west of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is well known for his corrugated iron animals, birds, cars and people as well …

Emma Hercus is a painter born in Hastings and now living in Plimmerton, just north of Wellington.

The everchanging ocean and its view from her home serve as constant reference points in Emma's narrati…

Today I'm catching up with painter, printmaker Kylie Rusk to see what she's been up to since I last spoke to her in March 2021.

Listen to Kylie's first chat on the podcast in episode 2:
https://www.cre…

Gilly Sheffield is a sculptor | weaver living in both Glendowie in Auckland and Wanaka in the South Island. 

After a lifetime of making, it was only a few years ago that Gilly developed a more specifi…

Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and c…

Levi Hawken is a brutalist | modernist sculptor living and working in west Auckland. His practice includes sculpture in concrete, glass, wood and bronze as well as painting.

As a skateboarder, Levi un…

Di Tocker is a sculptural glass artist living and working from her purpose built studio in Cambridge, in the Waikato.

Di maintains a structured approach to her art practice and business. She provides …

Ronja Schipper has been lovingly making up-cycled art objects since 2015. She lives in the Waitakere Ranges in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Ronja uses waste materials for creating design pieces, aiming …

Mandy Patmore is a multi-media environmental artist living in Karekare, on Auckland’s west coast. 

Primarily a painter, Mandy's current work focuses largely on deforestation and habitat loss in New Ze…

Born and raised in Auckland, Dita Angeles completed her BFA at Whitecliffe College in 2004 before spending the majority of her career in Asia and more recently Australia.

With a strong background in p…

Leigh Tawharu, is a contemporary mixed media and printmaking artist living in Kaeo, Te Tai Tokerau in the far north of Aotearoa NZ.

Her work is created through various techniques and mediums which see…

Sam Leitch is a contemporary painter and print maker living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Sam sees himself as a storyteller of everyday life and the unknown, capturing time and combining commonplace ob…

GUEST UPDATE: Textile artist Frankie Meaden was last interviewed on the podcast in July 2023 in episode 87.

Today we catch up with her to hear about what she has been up to since then - including a re…