Lynn Freeman
Painter Imogen Taylor - In Fellowship
Auckland artist Imogen Taylor has won two major art fellowships in the same year. Imogen has been granted the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for 2019 and won the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award for… Audio
Composer Antonia Barnett-McIntosh – Making Sound Gestures
She studied composition in Wellington and has now returned home, after 12 years working extensively overseas in all kinds of settings, as 2018-19 Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards… Audio
Street art - the return of the artist Handbrake
He came here to make a documentary about New Zealand's street artists and was so impressed, now Perth street artist Handbrake is returning to stamp his own mark on a wall himself as part of the eighth… Audio, Gallery
Mark Stocker – A survey of Te Papa’s National Art Collection
New Zealand art history in 2018 - what's included and what's excluded? Photography is now in it seems, but ceramics not; Contemporary Maori art - in - but traditional Maori arts? Still out. That's at… Audio, Gallery
Texan filmmaker David Lowery
Texan filmmaker David Lowery, who filmed the updated Pete's Dragon in New Zealand a few years ago, has now directed Robert Redford in the 82-year-old actor's last starring role in a movie, The Old Man… Video, Audio
Marks of Mana: the first film dedicated to female tattooing in the Pacific
Marks of Mana is the first feature film dedicated to the practice of female tattooing (tatau or ta moko) in the Pacific. From Samoa to Aotearoa, and on to Papua New Guinea and Tahiti we learn about… Audio, Gallery
Growing Audiences for NZ on Screen – Amie Mills
Over the last few weeks we've been looking at initiatives the two main TV channels are trialing to entice audiences who want more than just seeing programmes on demand. TVNZ has Alibi, a police drama… Audio
It's an art ache - Aimee Ralfini
Auckland's about to experience it's nineteenth Art Ache, which brings together emerging artists and potential buyers, but not in the traditional dealer gallery setting. Design creative and curator… Audio
Dr Mike Dickison
The New Zealand Amateur Naturalist is the next writing project for New Zealand Wikipedian-at-large Dr Mike Dickison. The former Curator of Natural History at Whanganui Regional Museum wants to offer… Audio
Ugandan Dancer Antonio Bukhar
Hip-hop, Dancehall, Afro-fusion and Ugandan dance - they're all in the repertoire of visiting Ugandan dance artist Antonio Bukhar and he's offering to share his moves with young Auckland dancers. The… Audio, Gallery
A Feast at Festa - Jessica Halliday and Benita Wakefield
The Canterbury earthquakes have provided the opportunity to reconsider the Christchurch CBD - and arts and culture have often led the discussion. No more so than during the bold biennial weekend… Audio, Gallery
Chris Heaphy on Gordon Walters
In the 1990s, revered abstract painter Gordon Walters befriended a young Christchurch artist, Chris Heaphy. The friendship led to collaboration on some artworks and they even got to the point where… Audio, Gallery
Making it Together - Brad Knewstubb
One of the masterminds behind the interactive theatrical genius of Apollo 13: Mission Control designer Brad Knewstubb is one of three recipients of $50,000 of funding announced this week by… Audio
Lifetime Achievement - George Henare
Actor George Henare - an Arts Foundation Laureate as it happens - is finding his 70s one of the busiest decades in his long stage career. He's just picked up the Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement… Audio
Changes in Arts Patronage: Simon Bowden and Anna Connell
What should arts philanthrophy in NZ look like today? Lynn talks to philanthropist and digital marketing consultant Anna Connell and Arts Foundation Director Simon Bowden. Lynn also finds out why the… Audio
Nancy Schroder - Beauty and the Beast
At a time when it's hard to pry children away from their screens, more than 30,000 a year are going to see professional shows created by Auckland theatre director, actor, dancer and choreographer… Audio
Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand
A limit of 300 words in which to tell a story is a tall order but the editors of a collection of ultra short stories had more than enough to choose from for the new anthology Bonsai: Best small… Audio
Maru Nihoniho - Creative Futures
A New Zealand gaming company hopes a game it's created to help children learn how to code will boost the number of Maori childen signing up at school to study technology. Audio
Tony Reddrop - Random Portraits
Palmerston North-based photographer Tony Reddrop spent every weekend for a year, in the same spot, asking passersby to pose for a portrait. Now he's about to reveal his Random Portraits, printed to… Audio
Nic Lowe - Southern Alps Journeys
He's spent much of his life tramping and climbing the Southern Alps and the past four years researching their history, and now Nic Lowe is chronicling the story of the formidable mountain range... Audio
