Arts

There is a novel in all of us. Actually, there probably isn’t. But maybe a poem. Tom McKinlay  gets some pointers from poet Liz Breslin. 

The icons of a politically charged environmental spirituality are taking to the street, writes Tom McKinlay.

In this week's Art Seen, Laura Elliott looks at exhibitions from Gallery Thirty Three, Lizzie Carruthers, and a joint exhibition from Ola Hoglund and Marie Simberg-Hoglund.

Colin McCahon is considered one of New Zealand’s key 20th Century painters. To commemorate the centenary of his birth last year, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is celebrating his Otago connections...

Dunedin Fringe Festival will go ahead this week, albeit a little smaller.

One of three works by Michael Illingworth (1932-1988) in the Hocken Pictorial Collections is The Painter and the Poet, from 1965.

Two artists have received the ‘‘gift’’ of a paid artist’s residency on Quarantine Island this summer. Rebecca Fox talks to Lynn Taylor and Eli Joseph about their time on the Otago Harbour island.

A change of governance of the Southland Museum and Art Gallery to the Invercargill City Council is ‘‘the first step to progress’’, Invercargill deputy mayor Toni Biddle says.