Creative Connections

Agate Rubene, aka Restless & Infectious, is an artist and illustrator with a background in fashion and graphic design. She is from Latvia and now lives in Wānaka in the South Island of NZ.

Agate’s wor…

Jennie De Groot is a contemporary painter living near Hamilton in the Waikato. 

Jennie's  oil paintings occupy a space where reality, imagination and memory all hold equal tenancy. These psychological…

Alice Fennessy is an artist based in Palmerston North in the Manawatu. She uses drawing to convey themes such as intimacy, domestic life and interior worlds. 

Her work is currently intertwined with mo…

Artist Rosanna Raymond aka Sistar S’pacific is in her words an "activator, fabricator" who has achieved international renown for her performances, installations, body adornment, and spoken word.

Rosan…

Georgina is a painter living in Nelson in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of NZ. 

Informed by her print & pattern textile design background, Georgie develops distinctive, warm and earthy colour palett…

Jamie Adamson is a sculptor based in East Auckland. 

He works in a range of materials including rimu, pine, oak, pohutukawa, maple, walnut and steel. The timber pieces utilise steam bending techniques…

Pam Wildbore is a contemporary artist from Hastings now living in Napier.

Pam is a resin and acrylic artist who began her art practice only 4 years ago. Since then she has had 7 solo shows, participat…

Natalie Holland is a textile artist from Wellington. She produces bright and colourful punch needle pieces that feature motifs and patterns used in hiapo (Niuean tapa cloth), linking to her Niuean he…

Yvonne Abercrombie is a contemporary artist living in Helensville just north of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Applying the figure to an abstract landscape is where Yvonne’s practice is situated. Yvonne …

Rachael Errington is a visual artist living, working and exhibiting in both New Zealand and Australia. She has been showing her paintings professionally for over 20 years, and has had 40 major solo e…

Tim Jones is a contemporary painter born in the UK and living in Matakana New Zealand. He creates bold abstract paintings through the use of strong gestural mark making.

Driven by inquiry, and with ev…

Zoë Nash is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Her brightly coloured, abstract works explore a slow and mindful accumulation of repeated and highly detailed mark making. 

R…

Belinda Griffiths is a conceptual figurative artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Her work lies within the disciplines of painting and printmaking and explores the expressive power of the gestu…

Clinton Christian (aka Clint© or CC'd) is an award winning contemporary New Zealand artist based in Hamilton New Zealand.

His graphic style, themes and mediums reflect his personality - fun, bright, …

POPUP is a versatile platform for artists, organisations, and venues in Aotearoa to produce their own online experiences. Born out of years of online event production, POPUP allows users to effortles…

Dunedin based artist Nic Dempster has been part of the city’s art scene for over twenty years. His bold colourful geometric style has developed out of contemporary landscape work and reflects his lov…

In this episode I'm chatting to Charles Tongue, the founder and CEO of Brother Theo - a platform dedicated to career coaching and legacy planning, tailored specifically for artists. 

Brother Theo prov…

Robyn Fleet is a painter from the Hawkes Bay. Her paintings capture the essence of human experiences and our deep connections to the environment. 

Robyn is obsessed with the materiality of paint itsel…

Sally Bulling is a contemporary New Zealand painter living in Queenstown. 

Invoking a sense of energy, Sally Bulling's abstract works are created with physical movements, sweeping marks, dripping flic…

Tim Christie is a designer and artist currently based in Wellington New Zealand.

His innovative, fashion-forward artistic style has been described as a modern synthesis of op art, pop art, street art …