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Zina Swanson is a Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist working amongst an artistic practice of painting, drawing, sculpture and instalation. Her practice delves into the exploration of the both fluctuating and porous relationship between humans and the natural world—often looking into these uncanny plant-related lores that occupy a slight nod to a darker view of humanity's relationship with the natural world.

Her current exhibition on at Sumer, Their Seeds Are Winged and Borne in Pairs continues and builds on Swanson's exploration of the natural world, navigating its rhythms and textures. Within this exhibition Swanson looks to the Sycamore plant, specifically their seeds. Producing an inquisitive new body of work that includes series of paintings, both acrylic on canvas and watercolour on paper, as well as human scale sculptures in clay and painted steel. 

Inviting us to look a bit closer at the natural world around us, and ponder in its porous boundaries between humans.

Maya had a kōrero with Zina Swanson about the show and overall practice.

Happy Rāmere e te whānau! Milly is still sick but Rosetta is here and she's got a mean show lined up: Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, a kōrero with Andwahn and Synthetic Children about their Joint Effort EP, Viewmaster with Litia, and From The Crate with Cam from Southbound Records. Whakarongo mai nei!

Breath Spectrum is a solo exhibition by Nick Austin currently on at Coastal Signs Gallery. 

Through an assemblage of found objects, sculpture, and archive, Austin invites the viewer into a space by which they are confronted with his material contemplation of ageing, life, legacy, and the afterlife. Bringing together intersections of labour, the domestic, artistic, recreational, and industrial, the line between art and archive is blurred. 

With transistor radios, chewing gum, ovens, eggs, tennis rackets and balls, and crosswords each present in the space, Austin summons curiosity and inquiry into these objects that may first appear random, but really mask the seriousness of his exploration. In this space, we are asked to question where our things go when we’re finished with them, where we go when we’re finished, and how we will be remembered.  

Sofia had a kōrero with Nick Austin about Breath Spectrum and his overall practice.

Today on Well Seasoned, Elie from The Lebanese Grocer is sharing some beautiful kai with Rosetta, giving us some epic food inspo. Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to Eden's Box!

Ben Chavasse joins Rosetta in the studio for a kōrero about his debut album Boxing - out today! Ben also plays us a couple of his gorgeous new tracks. You can catch Ben and his seven piece band at The Button Factory this Saturday September 27! Whakarongo mai nei!

Babe Martin aka Zoë Larsen Cumming joins Emma Gleason in the studio to discussing her new single 'Only Good', upcoming EP Not a Bee, but a Wasp, fashioning her musical alter ego, and finding inspiration in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Thanks to The Tuning Fork

Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald released their latest “Mood of the Boardroom” survey results, based on the responses from 150 senior business leaders. 

And earlier this month, the Minister for Universities, Dr Shane Reti, announced a series of reforms for tertiary education. 

For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Wire Host Caeden asked Shanan Halbert about both of these topics.

Today Thursday host Emma Gleason has low-cortisol tunes galore and an interview with the velvet-voiced Babe Martin.

Thanks to The Tuning Fork.