Rebecca Fox

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Students give oats a 21st-century makeover

Otago Polytechnic Culinary Arts students’ oat creme stacks on sale at Otago Farmers Market....

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Students give oats a 21st-century makeover

As NZ food production is threatened, Dunedin culinary students are looking at ways to support and change perceptions of locally produced products like oats, Rebecca Fox finds.

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Memories bring violinist back

2009 Michael Hill International Violin Competition winner Josef Spacek will help judge the 25th competition. He talks to Rebecca Fox about how it very nearly did not happen.

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Feline discovery cements new focus

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Feline discovery cements new focus

Nothing is off the table for Dunedin-based artist Nicole Page-Smith, Rebecca Fox discovers.

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Fair Verona goes country

Celebrating 65 years with its inaugural play, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet being re-staged, Dunedin’s Globe Theatre is paying tribute to its roots and its future, finds Rebecca Fox.

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Portraits bring joy and meaning

Adam Portraiture Prize 2026 finalist Marion Vialade-Worch with her Self-portrait - Day 27.

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Portraits bring joy and meaning

Four Otago artists have made the finals of the prestigious Adam Portraiture Prize. Rebecca Fox discovers what is behind the face.

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Knife sharpener lives up to promises

HORL German knife sharpener. Photos: Markus Edgar Ruf.

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Knife sharpener lives up to promises

Lifestyle Editor Rebecca Fox tests out a new to New Zealand knife sharpener.

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Joint force of ‘sheer emotion’

In a first, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play alongside the Dunedin Symphony on stage...

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Joint force of ‘sheer emotion’

Mahler’s Resurrection is one of the most significant works any orchestra can perform, also requiring a choir and soloists but add in another orchestra, it becomes a...

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Army never far from artwork

Former army artist Matt Gauldie may be out of the army but he is still testing himself — this time with an exhibition of bronze bird sculptures, he tells Rebecca Fox.

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Connection to city appreciated anew

Curator Dr Kirsty Baker (left) and artist Imogen Taylor at ‘‘From Behind’’, an exhibition of...

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Connection to city appreciated anew

Coming back to Dunedin after six years has a been a profound experience for artist Imogen Taylor.

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Home for a Kiwi childhood

Returning home to New Zealand after 15 years performing in Europe has been a big step for violinist Manu Berkeljon.

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Passionate about people and stone

Luggate sculptor Josh Olley urges people to try for the impossible. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

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Passionate about people and stone

Seeing his ‘‘wild Southland’’ stone with yacht masts and the ocean behind it on Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour for the Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail is a nice ‘...

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Back where it all began

Peter Hayden has unfinished business with Roger Hall’s plays. So the Dunedin actor is staging End of Summertime in Dunedin, he tells Rebecca Fox.

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Unexpected, uncanny ceramics

Highlighting four emerging Dunedin ceramicists pushing the limit of what ceramics can do is the aim of exhibition ‘‘Holding Space’’ at one of Dunedin’s newest...

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Mentoring jewellers of the future

Jewellers, from left, Aurora Smyth (Aurora Adorned), Mildred Leckie (Mildred Jewellery) and John...

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Mentoring jewellers of the future

Three jewellers at different stages of their art practice have come together in a tiny Dunedin studio to learn from each other and create together. Rebecca Fox talks to John Z Robinson,...

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Local food products get praise at national level

Three generations of Frasers are involved in producing gold medal Miele Apiaries honey (from left...

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Local food products get praise at national level

Otago and Southland food producers are in the medals at the Outstanding Food Producer Awards, finds Rebecca Fox.

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Taking flamenco’s flair to the world

Paco Pena has been playing guitar since he was a young boy. PHOTO: RITA SLATTERY

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Taking flamenco’s flair to the world

Internationally acclaimed as the greatest living exponent of flamenco guitar, Paco Pena will perform in Dunedin this weekend. He tells Rebecca Fox about the Spanish tradition that has shaped his life.

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Old friends celebrate 60th anniversary

Nicholas Braithwaite is back in Dunedin to celebrate the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra’s 60th. Photo...

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Old friends celebrate 60th anniversary

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra is bringing back two old friends, former principal guest conductor Nicholas Braithwaite and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra...

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Homecoming for Ngāi Tahu artworks

Paemanu artists (from left) Aidan Taira, Madison Kelly, Vicki Lenihan, Kitty Brown, Moewai Marsh...

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Homecoming for Ngāi Tahu artworks

The first exhibition in the newly extended Forrester Gallery in Oamaru will be "Paemanu: Kārakaraka Toi", a collaborative collection of works by Ngāi Tahu artists which is arriving home for the first time.

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Inspired by pioneer life

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Inspired by pioneer life

This week Jaz Mathisen opens the door on life as a farmer, mother and station cook on the historic North Otago homestead Awakino Station.

Queenstown sculptor still creating at 92

Morgan Jones in the workshop with his steel sculpture About Nine (2021). PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Queenstown sculptor still creating at 92

At 92 years old Arrow Junction sculptor Morgan Jones may have slowed down but he cannot stop making things.

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