After being in a creative bubble working towards the release of his latest album last year, Sean Donnelly, known as SJD, has emerged blinking into the daylight for his second year as Otago University's Mozart Fellow.
As children head back to school, Rebecca Fox asks a nutritionist, a mum and chef and a budget adviser for some suggestions on how to tackle breakfasts and lunchboxes.
Balclutha artist Belinda Mason can empathise with those heading back into education after many years, but she has come out the other end and believes it is all worth it.
Queenstown artist Marc Blake has a big year ahead and it started with a bang, winning the supreme award in the Craigs Aspiring Art Prize.
Anna Kelly McLeod has fond memories of her time as a student in Dunedin and her family’s connection with Otago features in a cookbook she has written.
A year-long project has come to fruition for Dunedin artist Madison Kelly as she exhibits her latest body of work based around Otago Harbour.
After a couple of years of Covid-interruptions and border closures decimating the arts and entertainment industry, 2023’s calendar is starting to fill up as international acts come back.
A new wine festival celebrating the Central Otago wine industry is being held this month.
For Sue Heazlewood cooking, gardening and making her home feel special has always been a big part of her life.
New Zealand’s national museum Te Papa’s exhibition "Hia Hia Whenua - Landscape and Desire" features some rarely seen works with close links to Otago and Southland. Curators Rebecca Rice...
Filipino couple Dan and Ana Valencia are on a mission to expand Kiwis’ knowledge of the sweet and savoury delicacies of their homeland.
The Robert Burns Fellowship has had multiple benefits for award-winning playwright Albert Belz, even enabling him to hit the stage again, he tells Rebecca Fox.
Returning home for a visit doesn't happen as much as Peter Tait would like. The former Dunedin actor talks films by Lord of the Rings fans and popular adverts with Rebecca Fox.
Rebecca Fox talks to Dunedin ceramics artist and Portage finalist Kylie Matheson.
Dunedin artist Elise Johnston won the inaugural Arts Council Nelson Contemporary Ceramics Award for her creation of an "intricate square hole". She tells Rebecca Fox about her latest work.
The tag-line might be "the road less travelled" but for those in the know there is no better way to travel from Dunedin to Central Otago than over the Central Otago Touring Route, Rebecca Fox discovers.
As the pumped hydro project at Lake Onslow is investigated, Dunedin artist Matthew Galloway takes a look at the last big hydro project that changed Central Otago forever.
For the first time, New Zealand author Fiona Sussman has woven her two seemingly different careers — medicine and writing — together in a novel.
Auckland artist Edith Amituanai loves creating an archive for a community through her photos.
Three years of toil and creativity come to a head this weekend as Dunedin Art School’s final year students exhibit their work.