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Review – Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – Helen Martin

Theresa Sjoquist

  Published in the Helensville Community News – Issue 108 – November 2018 Helensville has many artists, as we see by the fabulous variety of work on display each year during Labour Weekend’s Arts in the Ville. Ask any of them about the source of their inspiration and one thing they’ll talk about is the […]

Review Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – Michael Godfrey

First a disclaimer. I know the author. We’re Facebook friends and we’ve even met in unpixellated life. We worked on a common project without knowing each other, and met subsequently. Her coffee is great, and was it pecan pie? Something magnificent. Aotearoa New Zealand is a small country. So small. Years ago I worked in […]

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 […]