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The Black Door is a small curated space within the BizDojo that...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:41:28 +1200

Bhavesh Bhuthadia - product designer

Nick Von K - jeweller and artist

Lucky De - illustrator and comic artist

Li Chen - illustrator from Exocomics

Spencer Harrington - street artist

Ellie Jones - illustrator/concrete poet

Dylan Du Plessis - graphic designer

The Black Door is a small curated space within the BizDojo that I run as a way to introduce artists of all kinds into our heavily digitally-oriented creative community.

The BizDojo is a co-working space in the Ironbank Building on...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:49:00 +1200

The BizDojo is a co-working space in the Ironbank Building on Krd that I’ve been working from for the last year. The Big Idea brought me there originally to perch on one of their desks, and I got so comfortable there that I set up an HQ for Vibracorp and Creative Coalition, and now I’ve been employed as their Brand and Culture Manager… there’s some very exciting things in the pipeline so watch this space..

Creative Coalition partnered with artist Kim Newall to bring an...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:57:19 +1300

Creative Coalition partnered with artist Kim Newall to bring an installation to First Thursdays in the Ironbank building last week. This was the concept behind the project:

Cheeky critters squatting in city say “we won’t go!”

A new, unclassified species has taken up residence and set up a bush lounge in the Ironbank building on Karangahape Road. The cheeky critters refuse to leave the homely habitat they have unlawfully set up in the central city, saying eviction could mean extinction for their kind as they have nowhere else to go.

Mysteriously, their origin is unknown, but they have been spotted around other parts of the city - in Lorne Street and the Aotea Centre - by locals who describe them as friendly and playful, if a little mischeivous.

In an attempt to rally public support to keep their home, inspired by the success and popularity of fellow feathered celebrities Happy Feet and Sirocco, the creatures are inviting the public in for a cuppa and a lamington for one night this October. Aucklanders and visitors have a special chance to meet this rare animal and save it from eviction by signing the petition at its Ironbank nest.

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Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:45:09 +1300

I’ve partnered with Jade Tang to bring Creative Mornings,...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:43:00 +1300

I’ve partnered with Jade Tang to bring Creative Mornings, a monthly breakfast talk series, to New Zealand. We held our first talk at the BOX cafe in the Aotea centre last month featuring Zoe Ikin, Sam Trustrum and Clem Devine from Studio Magazine, a very swanky little publication that’s just launched in NZ and is gearing up to go global. Find out more about upcoming talks on the Auckland Creative Mornings page.

My events company Vibracorp helped Creative Coalition put on...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:35:41 +1300

My events company Vibracorp helped Creative Coalition put on this happening as part of We Can Create. Artists such as Louise Menzies, Karin Hofko, Mark Harvey, Becca Wood and Sensitive Boyfriend, each created an instruction that was texted out to the audience to form an artistic scene in the fluxus style. Click on the Creative Coalition link to see all the videos and artists reflections on the experience.

Creative Coalition is an interest group that I started observing...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:28:00 +1300

Creative Coalition is an interest group that I started observing as part of my main research project a couple years ago and am now working with closely. We act as an advocate to and conduit between council and other bodies for the arts and creative sector of Auckland. Thanks to Zoe Ikin for creating our identity, a very talented woman.

rimonitmd: Future going forward? Went along to finally have a...

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:27:50 +1200

rimonitmd:

Future going forward?

Went along to finally have a look at the wall on Poynton Terrace and it really does look miserable. This is what the future holds for us as far as visual arts go? Grey walls waiting for bureauRATs to finish shuffling paper so that council appointed and approved “art” gets to go up around the same time flying cars and teleportation are the norm? Screw that crap…

Graphic designers Zoe Ikin and Sam Trustrum create different...

Tue, 03 May 2011 21:22:41 +1200

Graphic designers Zoe Ikin and Sam Trustrum create different letter forms as part of the 100 Days Project. The project is open to all who want to participate - create a different design ‘operation’ every day for 100 days and share your results. Nice to see creativity for creativity’s sake.

The Depot has produced this series of interviews with cultural...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:10:00 +1300

The Depot has produced this series of interviews with cultural icons - with the intent of creating a ongoing record and genealogy that maps NZ’s cultural history as it is being formed. Interview subjects include: Barry Brickell, Philip Clairmont and Shonagh Koea, among many more.
Watch the interviews here.

Sideroom is an online arts and culture magazine that aims to...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:59:24 +1300

Sideroom is an online arts and culture magazine that aims to connect NZ’s local arts community. Submissions of all kinds of creative outputs are welcomed.

Sir Ken Robinson gives a TED talk on the role of the arts and...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:51:00 +1300

Sir Ken Robinson gives a TED talk on the role of the arts and creativity in education.

I thought that now is a particularly interesting point in time to consider his ideas, given the emphasis on engaging youth in the Auckland Council discussion document. His ideas also present a strong critique to the National government’s reduction in funding for arts-related community courses in favour of literacy and numeracy education.

‘Auckland Unleashed’ a discussion document acting as...

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:41:00 +1300

‘Auckland Unleashed’ a discussion document acting as a forerunner to the Auckland [Spatial] Plan was released last week on the 24th March.

I’ve compiled all the extracts relevant to the arts in a document with commentary available here.

Brand new website for a brand new company and… brand....

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:35:00 +1300

Brand new website for a brand new company and… brand. Vibracorp and I will do our best this year to provide experiences for our supporters that shock and titillate their synapses.. all the while fostering local talent and bringing some creativity back into the city.. keep your ears unblocked and your eyes open for more to come soon..

Check it out —> www.vibracorp.co.nz

A school camp-style new years holiday I put on this year,...

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:08:00 +1300

A school camp-style new years holiday I put on this year, featuring local Auckland bands and DJs —> Stress Cadet, The Wicks, Canadia, Yule, Shy Lion, Let Me Go Drone, forEVERMAYNG, Gomez Bustamente, Graveyard Love and Scarlett Lashes. A compilation is out now with some great tracks from these bands, contact me to purchase.

A great example of creative practitioners embracing...

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:12:00 +1300

A great example of creative practitioners embracing inter-disciplinary collaboration - graphic designers selected architects, musicians, artists and so on, to collaborate with on a creative project. Exhibition is this weekend 26th-28th November at Achilles House.

Art in the Dark is a collaboration of artists from around the...

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:25:19 +1300

Art in the Dark is a collaboration of artists from around the inner-city Auckland area in its first year of bringing art into the night time of Western Park, Ponsonby. The group aims to represent the ideals of community and sustainability through its work.

Knowledge Auckland is a newly developed information community...

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:05:50 +1300

Knowledge Auckland is a newly developed information community established by the Auckland Regional Council and NZ Trade & Enterprise to encourage growth in the city through the sharing of resources. A wide range of policies and data is available from across the region.

Auckland's art sector and the super-city

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:00:21 +1300

Strong regional arts policy under the new supercity framework needs to ensure not only that activity is resourced fairly, but that it meets the diversity and also the aspirations of organisations whose impact may be far bigger than their local community. It needs to recognise the distinct differences between different areas, whilst also allowing for more connecting up of activity and venues. For the pottery and sculpture trails of Rodney to meet those of Waitakere say, or local theatre to get strong legs through touring more across multiple venues.

James McCarthy: “I came back from travelling, seeing that where it works is where they’ve put in a cultural policy at the highest possible level within the city council structure. Toronto worked with (urban study theorist) Richard Florida to bring in such a strategy. We need similar thinking.”

McCarthy sees a key need for the formation of a regional Arts and Culture Advisory group proper. Ideally he says this would be formed independently of local and central government, but would proactively engage with the new mayor, CEO and executive team of the new city in an advisory role.

In the bigger picture from his travels McCarthy is interested in the arts’ role in spatial development as part of ensuring a large city’s vibrant growth. The provisions of hubs and zones for creative industries, for example, and the need for low rent space for start-up creative endeavours such as seen in Chicago and London.

“These are cities that cottoned on to the fact that people feed off the creative industries, including the concentrated forms of the creative arts. They nurture a bigger sector. They’ve realised it’s worth a huge amount of money.

Three years ago, says McCarthy, a blueprint document was commissioned by Auckland City Council that showed that the creative industries were worth more to the city than the construction industry.

Read more from the two part article here:

Arts at Spaghetti Junction | The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui

Save the Arts - by David Shrigley (England)

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:38:41 +1300

Save the Arts - by David Shrigley (England)