Suzan Kostanich is a fibre artist with many talents in fashion design, stitching and felting. She talks about her intricate process of felting, or laminating, wool and paper together to make her lavish Madonnas embroidered with gold and glass beads.

Marianne Muggeridge is a national treasure who has painted Nobel Prize winners and Reserve Bank governors. For Marianne, art is the point of life. Art has never failed to put her back on track.

A community arts radio show that takes on the belief that the arts are exclusive, hosted by Mikaela Nyman.

A community arts radio show that takes on the belief that the arts are exclusive, hosted by Mikaela Nyman.

A community arts radio show that takes on the belief that the arts are exclusive, hosted by Mikaela Nyman.

A community arts radio show that takes on the belief that the arts are exclusive, hosted by Mikaela Nyman.

Jeanette Verster won the fibre art category in the Taranaki National Art Awards 2023. On Sugar Loafing Arts Cast this Saturday at 11am she talks about her meticulously folded paper, cotton, silk and acrylic work influenced by music, kirigami, origami, polyrhythms and the cross as a multi-layered signifier.

Colour and light are key elements in Veronica Tee’s art, and she spends hours in Pukekura Park. From early on she learnt that determination and practice pays off. Check out Veronica’s landscapes in pastel and oil in our ARTSpace until 8 January!

Mike Brown and Riki Osborne from Mokau Bone Carving talk about next year’s Mokau Bone Carving Symposium and a new community bone carving hub in New Plymouth.

Toni Hartill is the resident artist at from out of the blue studio gallery in Opunake, where her first solo exhibition ‘Waymarkers’ is on show until 17 December. Viv Davy tells us about the kaupapa of her gallery and residencies.