Lynn Freeman

NZ On Air is such a part of the media mix in this country - the major funder of New Zealand's most important TV shows, not to mention RNZ, web-series and a lot of our music output - that it's hard… Audio

Dutch migrant Ans Westra really shook things up in her new home with her revealing black and white photographs of New Zealand, particularly her controversial school bulletin, Washday at the Pa. After… Audio

Visionary, former partner of Lou Reed and Nasa's only artist-in-residence - Laurie Anderson is taking audiences at the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts on A Trip to the Moon, on an out of body… Video, Audio

Another master of ultra short fiction - and a former winner of the annual National Flash Fiction competition - is English born, Auckland-based Dione Jones. Now she's embraced long-form writing to… Audio

Just weeks after launching her fifth collection of prose poetry and short fiction, Frankie McMillan heard she'd won a fellowship that will help her finish her next book. It's going to be a novella set… Audio

Improv comedian and professional embroiderer - unlikely companions on a single CV but it's what you find on Lauren Sinner's. The American fabric artist is in Wellington on a residency at the New… Audio

Dramatic coloratura soprano and astute businesswoman Madeleine Pierard has returned home from London to perform in NZ Opera's new production of The Turn of the Screw. Audio

Choreographer Tupe Lualua is working with young Samoan men - aumaga - to create a dance work that will shine a light on their invaluable contribution to traditional village society. Tupe is Creative… Audio

Christine Leunens' novel Caging Skies was released eleven years ago to rave reviews - at home in New Zealand and overseas. It's since been translated into twenty languages. Set in Austria during the… Audio

Never before seen film of the 1931 Napier earthquake aftermath will go on show at the first exhibition Nga Taonga Sound & Vision is putting on at its new headquarters at the National Library in… Audio

Described as part Cirque du Soleil, part Broadway play and part avant-garde couture show, the World of WearableArt Awards Show opened last night and tonight is the awards announcement. RNZ's Lynn… Audio

Newtown in Wellington is the guinea pig for a planned annual festival of videos celebrating the country's most creative suburbs. The famously multi-cultural inner-city suburb is home to the arts… Audio

In the first in a series of novels centring on the senses, Dunedin author and recent Arts Foundation Laureate Laurence Fearnley, focusses on smell. In Scented, university lecturer Sian is struggling… Audio

Putting his own subversive spin on Christchurch's proliferation of post-earthquake 'no go' and other public signs has kept artist Phllip Trusttum busy for the past few years. No Go! is the name of the… Audio

One of Ireland's top crime writers is heading to New Zealand to talk about her craft, and about why sales of crime novels - always popular - are going through the roof in these uncertain international… Audio

She was born in Nuku'alofa, raised in Hawai'i and now works out of New York, but Vaimoana Niumeitolu still strongly identifies as a Tongan artist. At the moment she's in New Zealand for the Tautai… Audio

The world is not being allowed to forget the plight of abandoned asylum-seekers on West Papua's Manus Island, through the work of Melbourne-based, Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar. In April last year… Audio

It's been slow going but Maria Giese who's leading the charge in Hollywood over the industry's ongoing discrimination against women directors, says there is progress - at least in television and… Audio

Setting up a theatre company made up of prisoners and ex prisoners so they can help at-risk communities, is the ultimate goal of Ruth Ratcliffe, who's one of this year's Te Putanga Toi Arts Access… Audio

A year long residency in Berlin in 2015 has turned into a much longer stay for poet, singer-songwriter and editor Hinemoana Baker. The German capital has been a mecca for New Zealand artists for a… Audio