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The artist and beekeeper who made a real-life Beehive

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An image of Kim Kobialko with her hives and her honeycomb Beehive.

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Never work with children or animals - so the saying goes. But what about bees?

Kapiti-based artist Studio Reset - real name Kim Kobialko - has had great success in using bees to help create her art - both 2D and 3D.

She's used their wax to make encaustic painting - a common technique in ancient Greek and Roman painting.

More recently she's also used the bees' honeycomb to make a sculpture of the Beehive - the one with the capital 'B' found in Wellington.

It's on display at the moment at Auckland's NZ Sculpture OnShore, along with another work called 'Safe House'. Kim joins Kathryn to talk about how she collaborates with bees.