Rebecca Fox

Having a Chinese tourist purchase about 50 pots worth thousands of dollars in one swoop is just one of the highlights for the Stuart St Potters Co operative.

British actress Rebecca Vaughan will visit Dunedin for the first time this month, as part of the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, to bring her unique take on the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs Dalloway to life.

Sisters Karena and Kasey Bird were audience favourites when they won the reality television cooking show MasterChef 2014 title. But as Rebecca Fox discovers, they have not rested on their laurels during the past 18 months.

To many, Singapore is just a transit stop on their way to more far-flung places. Lifestyle editor Rebecca Fox finds out there is more to the city than its airport.

The powerful feelings expressed in the poetry, songs, diaries and interviews about the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign have been set to music by Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie. Rebecca Fox finds out how the group of songs came together.

From ''food porn'' to ''food art'', Christchurch-raised photographer Henry Hargreaves has travelled an unexpected path. Rebecca Fox finds out about life in New York and how the internet changed his life.

If you think women's interest in fashion is a modern phenomenon a new exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery might just turn that thought on its head. Rebecca Fox talks to its curator, Priscilla Pitts, about Frances Hodgkins' interest in fashion

Modi Deng was just 11 years old when she played her first concerto with an orchestra. Now 18 and a student at the University of Auckland, she returns to Dunedin for the opening concert of Southern Sinfonia's concert series. Rebecca Fox finds out what drives the young musician.

As a ''mature'' emerging artist, Aucklander Teresa H.R. Lane is keen to get her career started. Rebecca Fox talks to her about taking the big step of her first solo exhibition here in Dunedin. 

The cliche of a male mid life crisis is taken to new levels in Mark Hadlow's latest one man play.

One of the most comprehensive displays of contemporary British art goes on display at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery this weekend. Dunedin is the only New Zealand venue for the show, which Rebecca Fox discovers showcases the diverse range of contemporary art produced in the United Kingdom in the past 20 years.

A newly shaped wineglass designed by a 300-year-old Austrian glass company especially to elevate the experience and enjoyment of Central Otago pinot noir has been released.

Drought conditions have officially been declared along the East Coast of New Zealand by Primary Industries minister Nathan Guy.

Farmers concerned about the impact of irrigation cuts on the Taieri River had the chance to air their concerns at a series of meetings yesterday.

Performing on stage with a group of contemporary dancers is not the norm for New Zealand Army Band percussionist Private Stu Macfarlane.

A World War 1 mystery is to be brought to life in a play by Philip Braithwaite to be premiered in Dunedin this month. Rebecca Fox talks to the playwright about the family ''myth'', which had intrigued him throughout most of his life.

Believe it or not, Australian-based celebrity chef Sean Connolly has never been to Queenstown.

From a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean comes a contemporary dance show with the unlikely pairing of a 1980s dance movie and The Bible. Rebecca Fox talks to those involved about the French-New Zealand collaboration.

Born into the small Southland farming community of Otautau, ballet was not the obvious career choice for Adrian Burnett.