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31 • 01 • 24 / Arts & Culture / News

Out-pour and Out-source: Peter Wing’s exhibition for Pride

Peter Wing Seeto's photographs allow their friends present themselves - or amplified, aspirational versions of themselves - for the camera. 

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Out-pour and Out-source: Peter Wing’s exhibition for Pride

15 • 01 • 24 / Arts & Culture / News

How Tāmaki Paenga Hira is becoming a museum for the 21st century

Chantal Knowles is one of three co-directors at the Māori and Pacific textile and fibre centre, Te Aho Mutunga Kore, at Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. We spoke to her about how museums are changing their role in today's society, and how Te Aho Mutunga Kore is helping the Museum move towards a more collaborative, community-led model. 

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How Tāmaki Paenga Hira is becoming a museum for the 21st century

06 • 12 • 23 / Arts & Culture / News

Te Aho Mutunga Kore: The Eternal Thread

Our summer exhibition with Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira focuses on an amazing collection of woven and fabric works and the communities that made them. 

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Te Aho Mutunga Kore: The Eternal Thread

06 • 12 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Wonder and Soul: Salome Tanuvasa’s summer flag installation

Full of joy and energy, artist Salome Tanuvasa's flags are flying all over Britomart this summer. 

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Wonder and Soul: Salome Tanuvasa’s summer flag installation

27 • 11 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Micheal McCabe’s “clowny” cocktail trolley for Takutai Square

How designer Micheal McCabe is helping Britomart bring back the cocktail trolley.

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Micheal McCabe’s “clowny” cocktail trolley for Takutai Square

03 • 11 • 23 / Arts & Culture / News

Redbull Dance Your Styles NZ Winner: John Vaifale aka Happyfeet

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Happy Feet poses for a portrait at Red Bull Dance Your Style in Auckland, NZ on May 26, 2023 // Graeme Murray / Red Bull Content Pool // SI202305270158 // Usage for editorial use only //

Redbull Dance Your Styles NZ Winner: John Vaifale aka Happyfeet

28 • 06 • 23 / Arts & Culture / News

What Matariki Means to Me

A portrait series with photographer Mataara Stokes and the students from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae asks the question ‘What does Matariki mean to you?’ 

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What Matariki Means to Me

28 • 03 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Greening the City 2023

We’re Greening the City by giving away thousands of native trees in Takutai Square. 

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Greening the City 2023

28 • 02 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Telly Tuita’s Tongpop comes to Britomart

Telly Tuita's dayglo self-portraits feature metallic bodysuits, crazy headdresses and tapa-style backdrops.

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Telly Tuita’s Tongpop comes to Britomart

16 • 02 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Te Tīmatanga Huarahi Toi at Britomart

Britomart's collaboration with Auckland Pride showcases the creativity of Maia Keane, Pounamu Wharewaka and Renati Waaka, three Takatāpui Māori artists.

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Te Tīmatanga Huarahi Toi at Britomart

08 • 12 • 22 / Arts & Culture / Business at Britomart / News

We’re celebrating the opening of the historic Hayman Kronfeld Buildings

More than a century old, the Hayman and Kronfeld Buildings have been refurbished to 5 Green Star standards to offer a whole new life to the city. 

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We’re celebrating the opening of the historic Hayman Kronfeld Buildings

04 • 03 • 24 / Arts & Culture / News

Auckland Arts Festival at Britomart

Britomart is proud to host Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki | Auckland Arts Festival with live performances in Takutai Square. Bring your friends and family along and enjoy an incredible variety of fun and free events.

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Auckland Arts Festival at Britomart

24 • 11 • 22 / Arts & Culture

Bon Voyage Good Trip Be Good: Britomart’s Summer Exhibition

Britomart's Summer Exhibition of photographs by John Rykenberg from 1958-1962 throws it back to the days of festivities and farewells on Auckland's wharves.

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Bon Voyage Good Trip Be Good: Britomart’s Summer Exhibition

17 • 04 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Words writ large (and loud) for the Writers Festival

We're celebrating the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki at Britomart all May, with poetry published large and a very special free event. 

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Words writ large (and loud) for the Writers Festival

01 • 05 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Poetry at Britomart: Poet laureate Chris Tse

Britomart is proud to present new poetry all over the precinct to celebrate the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki, rendered in posters by Inhouse Design. The posters are presented as text fragments, but you can read each work in full here on our website. This one is Chris Tse's Geometric Growth (after Guy Ngan).

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Poetry at Britomart: Poet laureate Chris Tse

01 • 05 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Poetry at Britomart: The Holiday Fish Goes to Work by Joanna Cho

Britomart is proud to present new poetry all over the precinct to celebrate the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki, rendered in posters by Inhouse Design. The posters are presented as text fragments, but you can read each work in full here on our website. This one is The Holiday Fish Goes to Work by Joanna Cho.  

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Poetry at Britomart: The Holiday Fish Goes to Work by Joanna Cho

01 • 05 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Poetry at Britomart: A Missionary Falls in Love with a Coloniser by Takunda Muzondiwa

Britomart is proud to present new poetry all over the precinct to celebrate the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki, rendered in posters by Inhouse Design. The posters are presented as text fragments, but you can read each work in full here on our website. This one is A Missionary Falls in Love with a Coloniser by Takunda Muzvondiwa. 

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Poetry at Britomart: A Missionary Falls in Love with a Coloniser by Takunda Muzondiwa

01 • 05 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Poetry at Britomart: E hoa/friends by Robert Sullivan

Britomart is proud to present new poetry all over the precinct to celebrate the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki, rendered in posters by Inhouse Design. The posters are presented as text fragments, but you can read each work in full here on our website. This one is E hoa/friends by Robert Sullivan. 

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Poetry at Britomart: E hoa/friends by Robert Sullivan

01 • 05 • 23 / Arts & Culture

Poetry at Britomart: ACTIVITIES by Laura Vincent

Britomart is proud to present new poetry all over Britomart to celebrate the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki, rendered in posters by Inhouse Design. The posters are presented as text fragments, but you can read each work in full here on our website. This one is Laura Vincent's ACTIVITIES.

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Poetry at Britomart: ACTIVITIES by Laura Vincent

05 • 10 • 22 / Arts & Culture / Sustainability

These two Nohonga design teams are thinking about climate resilience while sitting down

Four new benches designed by teams of landscape architects are occupying Takutai Square for the Climate Festival in October. Here, we speak to two of the teams about how they decided to respond to the theme of Climate Resilience. 

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These two Nohonga design teams are thinking about climate resilience while sitting down

05 • 10 • 22 / Arts & Culture / Sustainability

The designers behind Nohonga Tuarua are creating new places to sit in Takutai Square

It's a design challenge that invites people to sit down and contemplate: teams of landscape architects have dreamed up benches for Takutai Square on the theme of Climate Resilience. 

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The designers behind Nohonga Tuarua are creating new places to sit in Takutai Square

27 • 06 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News / People / The Interview

Artist Cindy Huang is celebrating Matariki by giving away 240 hand-made ceramic veges.

The artist's installation, entitled Twin Cultivation, aims to build community by bringing strangers together through conversation and gift-giving.

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Artist Cindy Huang is celebrating Matariki by giving away 240 hand-made ceramic veges.

14 • 06 • 22 / Arts & Culture

Matariki ki te Manawa is bringing light and life to the central city

Discover the meaning and magic of Matariki during a three-week festival of events all along the waterfront.

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Matariki ki te Manawa is bringing light and life to the central city

14 • 06 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News

Te Pā Harakeke in Takutai Square is the place to celebrate Aotearoa’s new Matariki holiday

Britomart's Takutai Square is the perfect place to celebrate the Matariki public holiday at Te Pā Harakeke, a free market day of music and kapa haka performances, as well as excellent kai from Māori food trucks and a vibrant range of arts and crafts stalls. 

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Te Pā Harakeke in Takutai Square is the place to celebrate Aotearoa’s new Matariki holiday

13 • 06 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News / People / The Good Citizen

Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole’s mission to spread joy starts with Matariki

Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole are part-way through the creation of Wharenui Harikoa (House of Joy), a full-size wharenui created as a place to share and connect. Here, they talk about celebrating their work so far at Britomart, what got them started, and how Matariki forms the foundations of their creation. 

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Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole’s mission to spread joy starts with Matariki

10 • 05 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News

The Art of Tivaevae comes to Britomart

A new exhibition on Britomart's Te Ara Tahuhu is a collaboration with Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira that celebrates the art of tivaevae. 

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The Art of Tivaevae comes to Britomart

09 • 05 • 22 / Arts & Culture / People

Sione Faletau is making patterns from sound

Sione Faletau's new artwork makes visual patterns from sound recordings, and is taking over the Atrium on Takutai for the City of Colour festival.  

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Sione Faletau is making patterns from sound

06 • 05 • 22 / Arts & Culture

We’re brightening up Britomart for the City of Colour Festival

Two new exhibitions welcome people back to the central city for the City of Colour Festival

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We’re brightening up Britomart for the City of Colour Festival

11 • 04 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News / Sustainability / The Good Citizen / The Interview

Miriama Grace Smith

Miriama Grace Smith (Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Toarangatira and Ngāti Porou) comes from a family of artists – her mother, Briar Grace Smith is a filmmaker, and her grandmother, Patricia Grace, is one of New Zealand’s most cherished authors and poets. We spoke to the Wellington-based artist about her work, including the illustrations she created for Britomart’s Greening the City project, which can be seen in the Atrium, the Pavilions and on the construction hoardings along Customs St East.

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Miriama Grace Smith

29 • 03 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News / Sustainability

Greening the City 2022

For Arbour Day 2022, we’re Greening the City by giving away thousands of native trees in Takutai Square. 

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Greening the City 2022

09 • 03 • 22 / Style / Arts & Culture / News

To fashion comes to Te Ara Tahuhu

To fashion is an exhibition on The Britomart Pavilions in Te Ara Tahuhu staged by the New Zealand Fashion Museum, in which curator Doris de Pont asks 12 notable New Zealanders to be photographed in their own clothes to show how personal style helps communicate who they are. Photographer Edith Amituanai took the shots, and talks here about the project. 

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To fashion comes to Te Ara Tahuhu

27 • 02 • 22 / Style / Arts & Culture

Shannon Novak x Fabric – Through the Looking Glass

Shannon Novak has collaborated with Fabric to create a beautiful artwork titled 'Through the Looking Glass', to grow support for the LGBTQI+ community worldwide.

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Shannon Novak x Fabric – Through the Looking Glass

16 • 02 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News

Business as usual in strange times

Not everyone has the choice to work from home. Here, we show our appreciation for the dedication of the teams who turn up to Britomart every day to do their jobs and keep people safe. 

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Business as usual in strange times

25 • 01 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News

Pride at Britomart

A pathway of public art through the city highlights the voices and creativity of Takatāpui Māori artists for Pride 2022. 

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Pride at Britomart

17 • 01 • 22 / Arts & Culture / News

A Whale of a Tale at Britomart

A new artwork by Talia Pua brings the Whale Tales Art Trail into the heart of Britomart - and raises money for WWF's important work in the oceans at the same time. 

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A Whale of a Tale at Britomart

28 • 11 • 21 / Arts & Culture / News

To Grow Roots Where They Land

In February 1939, the New Zealand Government allowed 256 wives and 244 children of Chinese men in New Zealand to take refuge here from the Sino-Japanese war. In this project, Talia Pua talks to some of the descendants of these refugees about coming to New Zealand. 

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To Grow Roots Where They Land

14 • 10 • 21 / Arts & Culture / News

NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year

The work of NZ's best photographers is on display in the Atrium on Takutai. 

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Pukekohoe Hill, New Zealand.

Photographed on the DJI Inspire 2

Cabbage Harvesting, Wai Shing Ltd

NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year

14 • 06 • 21 / Arts & Culture / People

Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

For Matariki at Britomart, we commissioned illustrator Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho (Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungungu) to depict each of the nine stars in the Matariki cluster. Here, they talk a little bit about the meaning of Matariki.

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Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

16 • 12 • 20 / Arts & Culture

The waterfront comes alive for the Prada America’s Cup World Series

With the Christmas regatta under way, here is everything you need to know about where to soak up the buzz of it all.

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The waterfront comes alive for the Prada America’s Cup World Series

30 • 03 • 21 / Arts & Culture

The pots in Shane Cotton’s Maunga mural

All the pots in Shane Cotton's Maunga mural at Britomart 

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The pots in Shane Cotton’s Maunga mural

01 • 12 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News

Summernova Festival

There's no excuse not to get out and enjoy the sun over the next few months, with a region-wide line-up of events based around arts, culture, sports, wine, food, music, sustainability and more.

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Summernova Festival

01 • 12 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News

Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Britomart

We're proud to join Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki's monumental celebration of contemporary Māori art by hosting a satellite show of one huge new permanent work and three temporary new installation works by four Māori artists.

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Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Britomart

01 • 12 • 20 / Arts & Culture / The Interview

Toi Tū Toi Ora: Lyonel Grant & Tim Gruchy

Lyonel Grant (Ngāti Pikia, Te Arawa) is often described as a carver, but his work is always pushing boundaries. For Toi Tū Toi Ora’s satellite exhibition at Britomart, he collaborated with artist Tim Gruchy, the creator of SCOUT, the 2012 work in Takutai Square that takes a range of environmental data and uses artificial intelligence paradigms to translate that into ever-changing images on a vertical LED screen. Together, they devised SCOUT: Wawata Hōhonu, a process that introduced images of Lyonel’s carvings as the foundations of SCOUT’s deep dreaming process. Here, Lyonel and Tim talk to Britomart’s Jeremy Hansen about their collaboration.

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Toi Tū Toi Ora: Lyonel Grant & Tim Gruchy

01 • 12 • 20 / Arts & Culture / The Interview

Toi Tū Toi Ora: Lonnie Hutchinson

Lonnie Hutchinson (Kai Tahu, Ngāti Kuri ki Kai Tahu, Samoan) uses intricate patterns in her artworks to tell stories of her ancestors. Here at Britomart, she references the Ngāi Tahu creation story, which features not only Papatūānuku, the earth, and Takaroa, the progenitor of the oceans, but a third protagonist, Rakinui. Hutchinson’s work at Britomart, Aroha ki te Ora (Lover of Life) is comprised of two sets of three panels, with one panel representing each of the three characters in the creation story. Here, she speaks to Jeremy Hansen about the inspiration of her whakapapa, and the pleasures of creating public art. 

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Toi Tū Toi Ora: Lonnie Hutchinson

01 • 12 • 20 / Arts & Culture / The Interview

Toi Tū Toi Ora: Charlotte Graham

 

Charlotte Graham (Pare Hauraki, Pare Waikato, Ngāti Tamoho, Te Akitai Waiohua, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki) created a series of flags designed to bring the healing energies of Tangaroa (god of the sea) Tāwhiri-mātea (god of the winds) through Britomart’s nine blocks. Here, she speaks to Britomart’s Jeremy Hansen about her work, entitled Te Hau Whakaora (the healing winds). 

 

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Toi Tū Toi Ora: Charlotte Graham

11 • 11 • 20 / Arts & Culture / The Interview

Toi Tū Toi Ora: Shane Cotton

Shane Cotton (Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Hine, Te Uri Taniwha) is the creator of Maunga, a permanent artwork that now covers the western wall of Excelsior House. The basis of the artwork is a series of 25 works on paper created by Shane in response to Britomart’s commission. He and artist Ross Liew collaborated on the translation of those works into the five-storey-high artwork that now occupies the corner of Customs Street East and Commerce Street (Ross was assisted by Nicholas Boyd and Magarita Vovna). Here, Shane talks to Britomart’s Jeremy Hansen about the creation of Maunga, his use of the pot motif, and his participation in Toi Tū Toi Ora. 

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Toi Tū Toi Ora: Shane Cotton

24 • 11 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News

Britomart People: Jessica Thompson Carr

Jessica – aka The Māori Mermaid – illustrated the care cards for our 2020 Green Christmas giveaway of native plants. 

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Britomart People: Jessica Thompson Carr

25 • 06 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

Our Matariki Kapa Haka schedule

Here’s when to catch each of the four immensely talented groups performing Te Taumata Kapa Haka: Live at Britomart this June.

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Our Matariki Kapa Haka schedule

25 • 06 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

DJ Pom

Pomale Tamati has music in the blood, but it took him until high school to discover it. Hear him DJ during our Matariki hāngi lunchtimes. 

 

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DJ Pom

25 • 06 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News / People

Matekitātahi Rawiri-McDonald

Matekitātahi Rawiri-McDonald is an architectural graduate who works at Britomart-based TOA Architects. He also designed the flags for our Matariki celebrations in Takutai Square. Here, he talks to Britomart’s Jeremy Hansen about his creative process, and how he’s celebrating Matariki at his turangawaewae. 

 

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Matekitātahi Rawiri-McDonald

23 • 04 • 20 / Arts & Culture / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week Four

Hera Lindsay Bird

Poet Hera Lindsay Bird noticed how Shakespeare’s King Lear was becoming a bit of a lockdown meme, with many people riffing on the fact that Shakespeare wrote the epic play during a plague-induced lockdown in the very early 1600s. So she decided, in this somewhat epic poem, to use a bit of lockdown time to riff on the play itself.  

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Hera Lindsay Bird

09 • 04 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News / The Interview

Britomart: Unpeopled

Photographer Joe Hockley strolled the empty streets of Britomart and the central city and took these starkly beautiful images. 

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Britomart: Unpeopled

16 • 04 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News

Britomart’s heritage buildings have seen a lot

A photographic tour of some of the beautiful heritage buildings of Britomart, and the bustling streets around them. 

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Britomart’s heritage buildings have seen a lot

18 • 03 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

John Amodeo

One of the longest-term members of the Britomart Valet team talks about the joys of his main job and his sideline in high-level lawn maintenance.

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John Amodeo

12 • 03 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

Remembering the Al Noor Mosque Victims and Survivors

On March 15, 2020 it will be one year since the attack on Al Noor mosque in Christchurch that caused the tragic loss of 51 lives and injury to 49 Muslim New Zealanders.

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Remembering the Al Noor Mosque Victims and Survivors

12 • 03 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

Rochelle Moriarty

As venue manager at The Chamberlain adn Talulah, Rochelle knows her craft beers. We had a quick chat about what makes a great one.

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Rochelle Moriarty

20 • 02 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

The Conversation: Kiri Nathan

One of the leading lights of contemporary Māori fashion design, Kiri Nathan (Ngāpuhi, Tainui) is one of six designers whose labels are showcased in the Kāhui Collective pop-up fashion store at Britomart.

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The Conversation: Kiri Nathan

13 • 02 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

Chris Hutchinson

We caught up with the illustrator otherwise known as Chippy Draws, who has created several designs for Britomart, including this year’s Valentine’s Day campaign.

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Chris Hutchinson

30 • 01 • 20 / Arts & Culture / People

Britomart People: Shannon Novak

Artist Shannon Novak weaves LGBTQI+ activism into his work through celebrating diversity in community. We talked to him about his Safe Space Alliance project that’s getting started in Auckland at Britomart.

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Britomart People: Shannon Novak

05 • 12 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Wish List / Gift List Anna Hedley

The fourth generation in the Hedley family of booksellers, Anna Headley popped into Hedley’s Bookshop X Karen Walker Pop-Up to share some gifting ideas with us.

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Wish List / Gift List Anna Hedley

12 • 12 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

Young Māori artist Huriana’s work is founded in story-telling and personal culture, raising awareness of minority communities and issues.

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Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

05 • 12 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People / Sustainability

Sandy Crichton

As trust manager for the Native Forest Restoration Trust, which will benefit from Britomart’s Green Christmas project, Sandy Crichton is passionate about restoring native habitats.

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Sandy Crichton

14 • 11 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Tim Gruchy

Tim Gruchy is the artist behind the interactive digital artwork SCOUT in Takutai Square, which has recently been jazzed up with some new tech. Tim tells us all about it.

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Tim Gruchy

07 • 11 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Serval Fandango

Serval Fandango (one of those is his actual name!) is one of Auckland’s hottest young graphic artists right now, creating eye candy that we thought was the perfect fit for our Sweet Treats November campaign.

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Serval Fandango

24 • 10 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Kaitiakitanga

Charlotte Graham’s monumental painting has been made onto posters that feel just as monumental on Customs Street. 

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Kaitiakitanga

17 • 10 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Meet 12 Incredible Finalists For the 2019 Westpac Women of Influence Awards

From young women supporting education for girls in Nepal and fundraising to protect the oceans to a Pasifika peoples health leader and icon of the theatre world, these women are leading the way in New Zealand and abroad.

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Meet 12 Incredible Finalists For the 2019 Westpac Women of Influence Awards

03 • 10 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Sarah Callesen

Sarah Callesen is one of the artists who contributed a poster to Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa, the series of works by women artists changing weekly on the construction hoardings outside The Hotel Britomart site on Customs Street East and Gore Street. 

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Sarah Callesen

26 • 09 • 19 / Arts & Culture / News / Sustainability

Car parks get populated with people for Park(ing) Day

On Friday 20 September 2019, Britomart's Tyler St was traffic-jammed with locals enjoying themselves in spaces usually occupied by cars. In six plant-strewn 'parklets' along the street, pedestrians sipped coffee on couches, beanbags and seats, or lay back on a cardboard-tube incline and contemplated a cloud of white balloons created by CAAHT Studio. 

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Car parks get populated with people for Park(ing) Day

26 • 09 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Elisapeta Heta

Elisapeta Heta works at architecture firm Jasmax, and is a poet, artist, and member of Architecture + Women and Ngā Aho, the collective of Māori design professionals. 

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Elisapeta Heta

11 • 09 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Painting the town red: a new exhibition of graphic art by women

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Painting the town red: a new exhibition of graphic art by women

05 • 09 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Waiata

Celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori with Waiata / Anthems in the Atrium on Takutai

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Waiata

14 • 08 • 19 / Arts & Culture

What we love to cook when we’re not dining at Britomart

A short and sweet round-up of recipe books that feed our creative impulses in the kitchen.

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What we love to cook when we’re not dining at Britomart

16 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Vicky Tamariki

Artist Vicki Tamariki’s cast of cheerful, crazy, cool characters are brightening up Britomart as part of our Works on Paper poster series.

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Vicky Tamariki

03 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Jonathan Kay

Jonathan’s large-scale artwork starts with melting ice and ends with a dramatic fabric installation. 

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Jonathan Kay

25 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / News / People

Art in the Atrium

Students from Manurewa High School have brought their artistic talents to the Atrium on Takutai. 

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Art in the Atrium

16 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Katie Lockhart

Katie Lockhart, the interior designer for the new Deadly Ponies store (among other Britomart retail outlets), hunted far and wide for the perfect interior accessories for the accessories brand. 

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Katie Lockhart

16 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

How to hāngi

To celebrate Matariki 2019, we invited hāngi master Rewi Spraggon to lay a hangi in Takutai Square. This is how he creates an authentic feast of Aotearoa kai.

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How to hāngi

03 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

James K. Lowe’s The Noble Ones

We celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Pig in 2019 with a photographic project by James K. Lowe in Takutai Square.

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James K. Lowe’s The Noble Ones

03 • 07 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Charlotte Graham

The artist behind ‘Te Waiora’ the huge temporary artwork whose water droplets flooded the Britomart precinct for summer 2018=2019, talks to Jeremy Hansen about her work and herself.

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Charlotte Graham

04 • 06 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

‘Ahota’e’iloa Toetu’u

Waving a flag is often an expression of cultural pride. For artist ‘Ahota’e’iloa Toetu’u, the new flags on Te Ara Tahuhu are a way to meld different artistic traditions

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‘Ahota’e’iloa Toetu’u

20 • 05 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Janet Lilo

Janet Lilo’s poster creations for our Customs St East Works on Paper project are energetic and eye-catching – but there’s more to them than catches the eye.

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Janet Lilo

01 • 01 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Tyrone Ohia

Some people can get you smiling as soon as they walk in the room. Tyrone Ohia is one of those people.

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Tyrone Ohia

07 • 01 • 19 / Arts & Culture / People

Aruna Po-Ching

Hula dance artist and teacher Aruna Po-Chingtells us how the hula tradition celebrates the landand creatures of the Pacific.

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Aruna Po-Ching