Grahame Sydney
The Week in Detail: From craft beer to Barbie
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Budget cuts see hard-won gains down the drain
Conservation projects across the country risk losing progress as money gets tighter and budgets are slashed. Audio
Sir Grahame Sydney - Knighted for services to art
Many people say Central Otago painter Grahame Sydney is New Zealand's greatest living painter. His works are in all major New Zealand art galleries, Elton John has one, the Government gifted one to… Audio, Gallery
Researchers: govt can get on top wilding pine problem
Researchers say the government has a golden opportunity to nip the country's wilding pine problem in the bud, before it costs the economy billions more. The Ministry for Primary Industries says it's… Audio
Owen Marshall and Grahame Sydney
Writer Owen Marshell may have been born in Te Kuiti but in his soul he's a Southern Man, a champion of the people and landscapes of Canterbury and Otago. While best known for his novels and short… Audio
Golden Valleys Turn Green
Central Otago is rapidly changing. Intensive irrigation has transformed once semi-arid valleys into lush pastures that support a growing dairy industry. St Bathans based landscape artist Grahame… Audio
Small town vs big towm
Artist Grahame Sydney talks about the attractions of living in a small community. Audio
National Anthem - Grahame Sydney
We've all been talking about whether to change our flag, and if so, what design it should be. But instead of submitting a design of his own, renowned artist Grahame Sydney is raising a different… Audio
Book review - Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974 - 2014
'Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974 - 2014' by Grahame Sydney, reviewed by Gregory O'Brien. Audio
Grahame Sydney: Paintings 1974-2014
London 1973. A frustrated young painter named Grahame Sydney gets an offer from his parents in Dunedin. They will support him for a year while he paints and then reassess. Forty years later the result… Audio
Your Place - St Bathans
We head deep into the heart of Central Otago's Maniototo district to an old gold mining town originally called Dunstan Creek. At the height of the gold rush 2000 miners lived here, today the permanent… Audio
Painter thrilled at demise of Central Otago wind farm
The Otago painter and Project Hayes opponent, Grahame Sydney, says it was never appropriate to build a wind farm on such an outstanding natural landscape. Audio
Feature guest - Grahame Sydney
Central Otago artist, enthusiast and defender. Author of Promised Land - from Dunedin to the Dunstan goldfields. Audio
Grahame Sydney
Talks about the pains and the pleasures of photographing Antarctica. Audio
Grahame Sydney
Talks about the pains and the pleasures of photographing Antarctica. Audio