Greg Barron and Jin Ling are internationally renowned clay artists based at Glenbervie near Whangarei. Adept at converting raw earth into vessels and sculptural forms of great beauty, it’s no surprise they chose to build their workshop, gallery, and three-bedroom home from the good earth, ‘poured earth’ in fact. Earth building stronghold Greg managed the […]
Piko Wholefoods opened in March 1979 at 225 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, as part of a larger project conceived by Rod Donald, Hans and Janice Schaeper, and Keith and Pauline Whiting, then all in their late 20s. The project was directed by concepts of self-sufficiency and community – a sustainable urban vision which included a housing […]
Pacific Biofert is a family run organic fertiliser business. Managed today by Bill Sinclair, Pacific Biofert began as a small farm. Clive Sinclair, Bill’s father, began work in his father’s small family flour-packing business. Clive’s father was General Manager of Northern Roller Mills (NRM), a large supplier of stock foods. Seeing a gap in the […]
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 […]
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Theresa Sjoquist
