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Trio confronting toughest topics
A meeting of minds over using the arts to explore some of life’s toughest subjects has brought three southern creatives together.
Rebecca Fox
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Meeting of creative minds
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Meeting of creative minds
Finding herself a little bored with traditional theatre practice, Australian actress Megan Dury began searching for something else.
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For the love of bread
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For the love of bread
After travelling the world, Auckland born-and-bred chef Andrea Dudding settled in the small Otago town of Owaka about 10 years ago.
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A champion of painting
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A champion of painting
Dunedin’s art community has gained another member with last year’s Frances Hodgkins Fellow Reece King deciding to stay in the city.
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Exhaustion plays into performance
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Exhaustion plays into performance
A whole new world of performing has opened up for dancer Branden Reiners as he takes on the lead role in the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s new work by choreographer Alice Topp, Macbeth.
Sun and culture intersect
Sun and culture intersect
Otago Daily Times Lifestyle editor Rebecca Fox discovers Sicily lives up to the hype and more.
Sun and culture intersect
Sun and culture intersect
Lifestyle editor Rebecca Fox discovers Sicily lives up to the hype and more.
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Reshaping loss into art
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Reshaping loss into art
After fire nearly destroyed her St Leonards’ home, artist, academic and poet Dr Susan Wardell had a strong impulse to make art.
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‘Heavy subject’ needed to be touched upon
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‘Heavy subject’ needed to be touched upon
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History lives on in ‘heel’ of Italy
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History lives on in ‘heel’ of Italy
Southern Italy is a path less travelled by many fans of the country. Rebecca Fox discovers its charms on a recent visit to the Puglia region.
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Correcting an image problem
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Correcting an image problem
An innocent post of her show to entertain people during Covid took a nefarious turn for Swiss actress Elsa Couvreur that has taken years to recover from.
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‘See [if] he’ll crack’: Dukes turns up heat
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‘See [if] he’ll crack’: Dukes turns up heat
Media attention is running hot on a Dunedin author’s first novel due to its reference to past bullying and abuse at Otago Boys’ High School, but the work of fiction is a lot more...
Full cycle: majesty of Nepal
Full cycle: majesty of Nepal
Dunedin man Murray Ross recently challenged himself, cycling the Annapurna circuit in Nepal, a 12-day journey which winds it way through some of Nepal’s tallest mountains.
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Drawn in by a rule-breaker
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Drawn in by a rule-breaker
DPAG curator Lucy Hammonds could not resist finding out what leading ceramicist Peter Hawkesby, who has moved to Dunedin, was working on and putting on display for the region to see.
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Bringing bold work home
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Bringing bold work home
The old team is back together at Dunedin’s Globe theatre for Keith Scott’s new production of The Fox and he could not be happier.
Full cycle: majesty of Nepal
Full cycle: majesty of Nepal
Dunedin man Murray Ross recently challenged himself, cycling the Annapurna circuit in Nepal, a 12-day journey which winds it way through some of Nepal’s tallest mountains.
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Dancing in the streets
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Dancing in the streets
Dancer and choreographer Oliver Connew recently returned to New Zealand after 12 years in Europe.
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Championing NZ’s native bee
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Championing NZ’s native bee
Bees are essential pollinators who play a crucial role in the ecosystem and are at the heart of Dunedin artists Taarn Scott and Hana Pera Aoake’s latest project "Let the Honey Soak Through".
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Private chef life not all glitz and glam
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Private chef life not all glitz and glam
The life of a private chef sounds glamorous, but is it?
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Life, line and the lay of the land
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Life, line and the lay of the land
Dunedin man David Craig won this year’s Aspiring Art Prize with an expressionist painting Wānaka judges described as feeling "alive and responsive".