Blog | Creative Matters

Dec 2

Bailee Lobb - Sculpture, installation and performance artist

Bailee Lobb is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 and now based in Wellington. She is a multi-disciplinary...

Nov 24

Julie Battisti - Painter

Julie Battisti is a painter who grew up in Melbourne Australia and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband in 2017, settling first...

Nov 17

Chris Melville - Photographer

Chris Melville is an abstract photographer, graphic designer and jazz musician living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. In his latest...

Nov 11

Ross Jones - Painter

Ross Jones is a painter creating works that evoke a heady sense of nostalgia and elevated playfulness, living in Snells Beach on the east...

Nov 4

Cathy Carter - Photographic and multimedia conceptual artist

Cathy Carter is a photographic and multimedia conceptual artist, living in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Cathy's art is inspired by concerns about...

Oct 29

Jeff Thomson - Sculptor

Jeff Thomson is a sculptor living in the little suburb of Helensville, in the north west of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is well known...

Oct 20

Emma Hercus - Figurative painter

Emma Hercus is a painter born in Hastings and now living in Plimmerton, just north of Wellington. The everchanging ocean and its view...

Oct 16

GUEST UPDATE: Kylie Rusk

Today I'm catching up with painter, printmaker Kylie Rusk to see what she's been up to since I last spoke to her in March 2021. Listen to...

Oct 13

Gilly Sheffield - Contemporary Artist

Gilly Sheffield is a sculptor and weaver living in both Glendowie in Auckland and Wanaka in the South Island. After a lifetime of making,...

Oct 7

Sue and Karen Gardiner - The Chartwell Trust

Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and creative thinking for our future and our wellbeing.

Sep 30

Levi Hawken - Contemporary Sculptor

Levi Hawken is a brutalist | modernist sculptor living and working in west Auckland, Aotearoa.

Sep 21

Di Tocker - Glass Artist

Di Tocker is a sculptural glass artist living and working from her purpose built studio in Cambridge, in the Waikato. Di maintains a...

Sep 15

Creative Matters with Ronja Schipper

Ronja Schipper, also known as Re:purpose Ronja, has been lovingly making up-cycled art objects since 2015. She lives in the Waitakere...

Sep 9

Creative Matters with Mandy Patmore

Mandy Patmore is a multi-media environmental artist living in Karekare, on Auckland’s west coast. Primarily a painter, Mandy's current...

Sep 2

Creative Matters with Dita Angeles

Born and raised in Auckland, contemporary fine artist Dita Angeles completed her BFA at Whitecliffe College in 2004 before spending the...

Aug 27

Creative Matters with Leigh Tawharu

Leigh Tawharu, is a contemporary mixed media and printmaking artist living in Kaeo, Te Tai Tokerau in the far north of Aotearoa NZ. Her...

Aug 22

Creative Matters with Sam Leitch

Sam Leitch is a contemporary painter and print maker living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Sam sees himself as a storyteller of everyday...

Aug 19

Creative Matters with Agate Rubene

Agate Rubene, aka Restless & Infectious, is an artist and illustrator with a background in fashion and graphic design. She is from...

Aug 11

Creative Matters with Jennie de Groot

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

Aug 9

Creative Matters ART INTENSIVE

Invitational learning using an expert as a resource for learning. CEO Mandy from Creative Matters is offering a new opportunity for...