Creative Connections
In conversation with Aotearoa's visual artists, talking practice, process and creative life.
Episodes
202 episodes
Tracey Coakley - Figurative painter
Tracey Coakley is a narrative oil painter working primarily in figurative painting and portraiture. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Tracey has lived in New Zealand since 2007 and now works from her studio in Waipu, Northland. <...
Lynne Sandri - Contemporary artist
Lynne Sandri is a contemporary artist and a curious idealist living in Seatoun in Wellington. With a career spanning over 25 years as a full time artist Lynne has had over 100 exhibitions and numerous artist residencies, she ...
Jo Tricker - Glass artist
Jo Tricker is a glass artist based in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa NZ.Jo creates glass fused, slumped, cast and lamp worked objects that are shaped by a love of literature and travel and the people from different cultur...
Rosanne Croucher - Landscape painter
Rosanne Croucher is a landscape oil painter from Hamilton New Zealand. She sees herself as a 'painter of moments' as well as landscapes, capturing the splendour, light and mood of ordinary everyday Aotearoa scenes.In this episode ...
Katie Robinson - Painter
Katie Robinson is a painter based in both Alexandra, Central Otago and in Devonport, Auckland. https://www.katierobinson.co.nz/Katie makes work that sits at the intersection of memory...
Janet Mazenier - Contemporary visual artist
Janet Mazenier is a contemporary visual artist living in Te Hau Kapua Devonport in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.Janet's practice engages with place, time, affect, world bending, and materiality. Her drawn-paintings are characterised b...
Mark Whippy - Figurative Painter
Mark Whippy is a Kiwi-Fijian artist born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. Mark’s figurative and portrait art is inspired by observing the ordinary everyday people and scenes of his environment, hoping to capture their stories and charact...
Roots Tattoo Auckland Convention - with tattoo artist and founder Ben Kaye
Ben Kaye DBKAYE is an Auckland tattoo artist and the co-founder with his wife Madeline of the Roots Auckland Tattoo Convention.Auckland is set to host its first-ever international tattoo convention in 2026 with the launch of the R...
Carol Bucknell - Figurative painter
Carol Bucknell is a Waiheke artist who has come from a successful career in journalism and garden design. She has been painting commissioned portraits and figurative works in oils for 20 years, and now produces more abstracted figurative works ...
Lyndy Wilson - Contemporary painter
Lyndy Wilson is a contemporary New Zealand painter of Tainui descent. She grew up and still lives in the small town of Ngāruawāhia surrounded by the Waikato and Waipā rivers and the majestic Hakarimata ranges, a constant source of inspiration.<...
Helen Kerridge - Contemporary Painter
Helen Kerridge is a contemporary painter from the Hawkes Bay. Many of Helen’s paintings are set in sparse environments, with a minimal grouping of subjects exude a sense of stillness, contemplation, and a celebration of the beauty t...
Quirky Fox Art Gallery - with Vicki Fox
Vicki Fox founded Quirky Fox art gallery in 2012. It is located in Hawera, a small town of 10,000 people south of New Plymouth.Showcasing both established and emerging talents, Quirky Fox invites both New Zealand and international...
Scott Lawrie - Gallerist, Writer
Scott Lawrie is a well known, much loved gallerist and writer who was based in NZ and is now living in Scotland. I absolutely loved catching up with Scott again a few months ago while I was living in Turkey. I last spoke to S...
ART BY THE SEA art gallery - with Linda and Mike Geers
In this episode I speak with Mike and Linda Geers, the owners of Art By The Sea, an art gallery in Hurstmere Road Takapuna, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.This is a fabulous chat with 2 people who are very passionate about the visual ar...
Katie Leigh Stewart - Multi media artist
Katie Leigh Stewart is a mixed media artist living in Wellington, Aotearoa NZ. Katie's paintings explore floral landscapes, portraiture, everyday life and nature. Her bright and bold palette as well as signature brush strokes...
Natalie Gelder - Multi disciplinary artist
Natalie is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist born in Yorkshire, England, with a current focus on figurative oil paintings. Nat moved to New Zealand in 2016 in her early twenties.and is currently based in Auckland.In this episo...
Andrew Barns-Graham - Contemporary artist
Andrew Barns-Graham is an established Auckland-based artist known for his hard-edged contemporary portraits with a pop realist style. He renders smooth, gradient-infused figures set against minimal, atmospheric landscapes.
Kyra Alkamil - Emerging young artist
Kyra Alkamil is a 19 year old emerging artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, in her first year studying fine art at Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland.Kyra paints in oils and is interested in storytelling, the human figure, nosta...
Katrina Cosgrove - Contemporary Artist
Katrina Cosgrove is a painter born in England who immigrated to NZ in 2005. She is now based in Bronte, a small settlement at the top of the South Island of Aotearoa NZ in the Tasman District, near Mapua. Katrina's nature ins...
Shelley Ryde - Painter, Printmaker, Writer
Shelley Ryde is a well known, highly respected Aotearoa art educator and artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland NZ. Shelley has led the visual art department and taught art at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, finish...
Kirsty Nixon - Contemporary artist
Kirsty Nixon is a contemporary New Zealand artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her vibrant, light-filled paintings celebrate the untamed beauty of Aotearoa New Zealand — from the windswept beaches of the North Island to the soaring mo...
Sarah Ritchie - Fibre artist and author
Sarah Ritchie is a New Zealand fibre artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.Sarah specialises in creating framed works in natural fibres such as New Zealand wool, bamboo and cotton, showcasing her passion for texture, colour, ...
Ceara Lile - Textile artist
Ceara Lile is a fibre-based mixed media artist who grew up in West Auckland. She creates abstract textile collages layered with meaning, memory, and emotion as well as eco inkless hand printed fabrics. She now lives in Keri Keri in the Far N...
Jane Shriffer - Abstract painter
Jane Shriffer is an abstract painter living and working in Wānaka in the south island of Aotearoa NZ. Jane paints intuitively, layering colour and texture, making her marks with a palette knife.In this episode we have a fantastic ...
Katie Blundell - Multi media artist
Katie Blundell is a contemporary New Zealand artist, living and working from her studio in Clevedon, south east of Auckland. Focusing on the human experience, her work is both personal and universal. Katie approaches her prac...