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. […]

Claire Delaney – Art As Story

  As memories distort into stories, time becomes less linear and everything overlaps – Claire Delaney   The story starts here is tattooed on Claire’s forearm, a reminder that the story starts and stops with her. “My past is my story,” says Claire Delaney, (formerly Hey, née Wilson). “It has shaped who I am now […]

Little Wing – Modern Heirloom Book

                  Modern Family Heirloom Designed for Coming Generations Illustrated with magically convoluted line drawings, Little Wing is a fairy-tale for all ages about following dreams.  A stuck wing means flight is impossible if the idea of unsticking it seems incredible. Claire Delaney is a full-time artist. She […]

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 […]

Slab to Songbird – Sophie Lankovsky, New Zealand Potter

New Zealand potter, Sophie Lankovsky, is based in Hawke’s Bay. Her studio is sited in a natural environment where the songs of native birds thrill her ears as she creates clay sculptures of them as like to life that they might hop out of your grasp. Born in the year of the Dragon, in Stuttgart, […]