Exorcise (E)

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014

Mint Gallery Exhibited until 18 April Mint Gallery is currently exhibiting EXORCISE (E) by award-winning artist James Robinson. Robinson was born in Christchurch in 1972 and currently lives in Dunedin. He completed a Bachelor Of Fine Arts at the Otago School of Fine Arts in 2000, and a Read more...

Richie Boyens - Clothes I've Made

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014

Last week i met with Richie Boyens, a Dunedin-based designer who started the brand Clothes I’ve Made, which is being shown in the capsule collection at iD. With Richie’s ambiguous design choices, combined with the use of various floral, striped, paint-speckled and tie-dyed fabrics, and his latest Read more...

Interview: Marie Strauss

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014

I’ve realised, in the midst of my daily routines, that there seems to be this generalised idea that art and fashion coexist, and it has left me wondering – with fashion becoming the focus of an increasing number of exhibitions and shows (i.e. iD Fashion Week), is the distinct line that once Read more...

Pearler

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014

“I am an Expressionist painter. I rarely plan a painting or do preparatory drawing. I commence the work with a quick wash of strong, primary colour and then begin to hurriedly paint figures of people, animals and hybrid creatures. I add crude marks for volcanoes, hills, sea, buildings, boats, Read more...

Interview: Rupert Smiles

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 9th March 2014

I have kind of been in this polygamous relationship with art and fashion for a few years now, so naturally I try to merge the two whenever I can. This week, I’ve had a really new and major obsession with handbags … as art. I simply can’t get past that moment when Kanye gave Kim a Hermes Birkin with Read more...

When Your Neighbour’s Problems Become Your Own

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014

The Blue Oyster Art Project Space on Dowling Street - recently re-located, re-furbished and re-directed - is the coolest little gallery I’ve been to in Dunedin. Comfortably minimalistic with its smaller sized rooms, unpolished wooden floors, white walls and warm light, Blue Oyster is the perfect Read more...

Hotere Culbert

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 23rd February 2014

Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert Exhibited until 9 March 2014 This whole exhibition could be the result of Dan Flavin meeting Ad Reinhardt in Port Chalmers for a couple of arty hours by the beach. But, in fact, the Hotere and Culbert exhibition, currently at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Read more...