Urban renewal: different perspectives
Every owner of old or historic buildings at some stage faces the issue of renewal…
Browsing: ENVIRO & POLITICAL ART
Death walks the Wairoa Bridge
It’s only when the placard-bearing, hooter-tooting, pot-banging, protest bridge walk turns to straggle back over…
A clear and present danger: SH2 sucks!
SH2 (aka the Tauranga West Road) is an established and patent danger. As one of…
From Desperation to Inspiration: Ko Mauao te maunga:the legend of Mauao
Book reviewer and photographer Lee Switzer talked to Debbie McCauley about her latest book. He…
No Place like home: Deaf Aotearoa NZ Flash Mob!
Celebrating New Zealand’s third national language. New Zealand Sign Language week. 7 – 13 May.…
Dyeing to Make the World Natural: Jeanette Scharing at the Tauranga Art Gallery
Two positives and one negative makes our lives go ‘round.’ Water, that necessity of all…
Birgitt Shannon in conversation with mural artist Julia Faulkner
ARTbop contributor, Katikati artist, Birgitt Shannon talks with the multi-talented Julia Faulkner. Julia is also…
uPflash: Harvest Festival days at the Whakamarama Hall this weekend!
You know it’s that time of the year again, autumn, when “living rural” you start…
uPflash: Antimatter at the People’s Gallery and an art class at the Artery!
The sustainability focused exhibition Antimatter opened last night at The People’s Gallery in the Historic…
Floral art: the work of Whakamarama creative Barbara Peck
The predominantly white and leaf green bouquet sitting outside my front door glows against the…