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The Original Hundertwasser Project – Jo Hardy (Joanne McNeill)

This article was published in the Northern Advocate’s Weekend Features section, 48 Hours, 15 July 2017. It’s an interview with Jo Hardy about her involvement with the original Hundertwasser project in the early 1990s. The Jo Hardy restrospective, Not Now Apocalypse, is still running at the Whangarei Art Museum in the Town Basin until 20 August. A […]

Jo Hardy – Dragon Driven Artist

  Interviews at Maungakaramea with Theresa Sjoquist  1994/2014/2016 Youth “I’m a messy worker,” said Jo Hardy in 1994. “Cigarette butts, apple cores, old mouldy coffee cups, lids off all the tubes and lost. From out of my chaos come excessively ordered images. Sharpened edges tidied obsessively are something I cannot resist. I’ve given up trying. […]

Gong

Interview with artist and writer, Joanne McNeill/Jo Hardy on 24 June 2016 at Maungakaramea, Northland – Theresa Sjoquist   “There are tribal members who will come forward to continue championing the arts,” Joanne McNeill insisted.  “They’re all young, late twenties, early thirties. Peter Larsen is one who isn’t afraid to stick his neck out at […]