Two canvases
by Judy Millar painted around 30 years apart but similar in many ways,
are being brought together for the first time. Judy has represented New
Zealand at the Venice Bienale and since 2005 has divided her time
between Berlin and Auckland. Her canvases tend to be large and
abstract, using bright bold colours and strokes. As Lynn Freeman
discovered, it was while Judy was working on a group of new paintings
that she had a flashback to another abstract work she had painted in
1987. Judy Millar's exhibition Turning the World Inside Out: 30 Years a
Painter opens on Wednesday at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery.
Aug 28, 2016 02:48
pm
Sue Younger
swapped a career in documentary-making for the life of a novelist. Her
debut, Days are Like Grass, is set in part at Starship Children's
Hospital, the workplace of paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman. Claire's
reluctantly returned to New Zealand from London - and she's got secrets
that are affecting her relationships with her Israeli partner and her
teenage daughter. Lynn Freeman talks to Sue about the often thin line
between fact and fiction.
Aug 28, 2016 02:36
pm
What do ad men
do when they escape the pressures of the well-designed commercial? If
they can draw whatever they like, what do they choose to do with that
freedom? A group of Devonport artists who are in - or have just left -
the advertising industry, want to show what they create in their spare
time at the Depot gallery in an exhibition called Escape Artists. Lynn
Freeman talks to to escapees, Tony McNeight and Scott Wilson.
Aug 28, 2016 02:23
pm
This weekend
young New Zealand opera singers with their eye on an international
career are starting a new programme aimed at equipping them with
crucial skills that are nothing to do with singing and performing.
Media training is on the programme, as well as negotiating, budgeting,
legal and marketing skills. The Kiri te Kanawa Foundation has invested
$200,000 in a new programme helping six singers become 'export ready' -
Lynn Freeman talks to two of them. Bass-baritone James Ioelu has had
four years of support from the Foundation, and he's currently working
on NZ Opera's production of Sweeney Todd. Mezzo-soprano Bianca Andrew
is in her final year of studio at the Guildhall School of Music in
London.
Aug 28, 2016 01:46
pm
Announced at
the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival, the 7th Ngaio
Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel had a record number of entries this
year, and a brand new award for debut authors: the Ngaio Marsh Award
for Best First Novel. Lynn Freeman speaks to the winners.
Aug 28, 2016 01:34
pm
Auckland
Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after
this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless -
movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is about to hang up
his pen - his poison pen, some might say. But is he as bad as he's
painted, or is he, as Monty Python would put it, "vicious but
fair"? Simon Morris was keen to find out...
Aug 28, 2016 12:46
pm
90 years ago American filmmaker Robert
Flaherty decided to follow his hugely successful Inuit documentary
Nanook of the North with another one set in faraway places - this time
in exotic Samoa. Moana followed the life of the young son of a tribal
chief, and captured on film the villagers' daily lives - fishing,
making garments, singing and dancing. Originally Moana was a silent
film, with a soundtrack added later by Robert and Frances's daughter
Monica. Now it's undergone a massive restoration project. Lynn Freeman
talks to Samoan-New Zealand film-maker Makerita Urale and to Diane
Pivac from Nga Taonga Sound and Vision on the eve of the restored
Moana's first public screening. She also talks to film restorer Bill
Posner about the process of reviving such and old film.
Aug 28, 2016 12:16
pm
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