Jennifer Corbett is the February ARTspace artist. She talks about coming back to art as an adult, her Tourist Birds illustrations for her children’s books, and running after-school art classes in Waverley and Patea.

Printmaking is the focus for this week. Mikaela talks to Dimphy de Vaan, Mark Raymer and Michaela Stoneman about Print Council Aotearoa NZ and the publication of PROOF – Two decades of printmaking in Aotearoa.

Laura Campbell, Director of Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford, talks with Mikaela about the practicalities involved in presenting art and getting exhibition ready, as well as the duty of care for both artists and gallery.

Acclaimed sculptors Renate Verbrugge and Jocelyn Pratt talk about this year’s Te Kupenga Stone Sculpture Symposium and their process for transforming hard andesite into playful, sensuous sculptures that defy gravity.

Mikaela talks with potter Marita Green about pricing work and attaching value to art and craft. Pricing is a big challenge for many creative people, but an integral part of being a full-time artist.

Mikaela talks to Jordan Hughes and Casio Austin about the group exhibition by 10 LearnerMe digital graphic arts students that are showing in our ARTspace in January. Their self-portraits draw on a wide range of references from nature and the spiritual world to manga, anime and gaming.

Mikaela talks to quilters Leslie Ault, Ruth Pfister and Claire Patten, who worked on the ‘TaranakiAPart Together’ quilt, a community lockdown 2020 project that is showing in our ARTspace in January.

Contemporary ceramicist Teresa Peters’ acclaimed work exists as solid clay objects and in digital video form. In 2021 she won the Portage Ceramic Awards and this year she’s a finalist. Her work TIME CRYSTAL is on show at Te Uru art gallery until 5 March 2023. Check out her exhibition ‘Ground Zero’ with Maree Horner at the Contemporary Art Space Taranaki!

Welcome into these beautiful homes – for seriously tiny inhabitants! Mikaela speaks to Taranaki members of the NZ Association of Miniature Enthusiasts – Maureen Holmes-Woods, Jo Cross, Shelley Young and Mary McCaffery about their passion, art and craft.

Sukena Shah was awarded the George Mason Visual Arts Scholarship this year for her painting ‘To be a Brown Woman’, a stunning piece that’s part of her Year 13 art portfolio at New Plymouth Girls High School. Drawing on her Pakistani heritage, Sukena’s art offers a critical examination of the experience of women in post-colonial South Asia through a young artist’s eyes.