People who were regarded as “Arty” and/or eccentric by the locals in the Whangarei Heads area were pretty well tolerated from at least as far back as the 1950s; sometimes with bemusement, but often as wise people in their own fields. Though there wasn’t much interest in those particular fields, the eyes of the locals […]
Ian Dalzell is the only potter in New Zealand firing with coal. Based near Lake Brunner on the West Coast, his mentors include Yvonne Rust & Barry Brickell. Based at Kotuku, on NZ’s South Island West Coast, Ian uses a high BTU coal with some coking abilities which forms a bed on the fire bars […]
Beginning in August 2007, I started research for the biography, Yvonne Rust – Maverick Spirit. The completed work included the location and interview of 400 people, approximately 80 of them in depth. Yvonne’s great grandfather, John Stewart Rust, arrived in Whangarei when thirty-six houses constituted the township. His son, Gordon, Yvonne’s father, was a native schools headmaster. In 1928, when Yvonne was six, he […]
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Theresa Sjoquist
