Portraits
Facing up to the Eighties - an exhibition of portraits
The flashy 1980s are remembered for being wildly over the top - big hair and big shoulder pads, Dynasty, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson. But in Aotearoa it was also a decade of protests and change… Audio, Gallery
Harry and Michaela Sangl - The lost Te Kuia Moko
In 1993 Brierley Investments purchased a collection 34 original oil on canvas portraits of kuia with moko, painted by artist Harry Sangl in the early 1970s. They were promised to be returned to Maori… Audio, Gallery
Capturing the musicians of Aotearoa
Hayley Theyers is the photographer behind Musicians of Aotearoa – a series of portraits as posters featuring some of our best if not best-known musicians. She plays us some of her favourite NZ songs.
…Portrait artist Susan Wilson
Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising. She's not into painting flattering images of her sitters. Audio
Tranquillity Disturb'd
Why a new portrait of master mariner Captain James Cook has so many people upset even before it goes on show at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington. Nigel Brown's unconventional depiction… Audio
Andris Apse: shooting the south
New Zealand landscape photographer who draws from his work of the last thirty years, much previously unpublished, for the new book, Spirit of the South, a photographic tribute to the mainland. Audio
A Quaker's View
Curator Paul Diamond on why a collection of watercolours painted from 1843 to 1845 by an English Quaker and potential colonist, is exclusively of Maori subjects. The exhibition is called 'Head and… Audio