Artist Profiles

Judy Woods

What influenced your journey in pursuing the Arts?I always loved making stuff as a child. I made stuffed toys, fimo broaches, dolls, loved paint by numbers, all the craft projects in the NZ Womens Weekly… and when I went through school I discovered I could draw as well.  However, Art was never really a subject […]

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Wendy Bown

What influenced your journey in pursuing the Arts? Initially it was loving photography and painting classes in high school which lead to studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Otago. Who and what inspires you? I’m inspired by the world around me. Literature, music, beautiful souls, most often nature. Storms, rain, snow, the ocean, the

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Josh Kiwikiwi

What influenced your journey pursuing the arts?I’ve had to have a good think on this question. Art was something I always had a natural affinity for, and naturally if you’re good at something you put in practice and more practice to better your skills, and that’s what I did and still continue to do. I

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Hamish Oakley-Browne

What influenced your journey in pursuing the Arts?I really am a late bloomer in respect to pursuing the Arts as a career, however I guess on one level or another I always wanted to be an artist but didn’t really know how to go about it. Fortunately during some study at Massey university I took

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Lenny Murupaenga

Who and what inspires you?My Uncle Selwyn Muru has always been a huge inspiration. I have also been fascinated and intrigued with our Traditional mahi toi. Had the opportunity to explore this in 2016 as I enrolled myself into the Whakairo Diploma Programme at TWOA. What influenced your journey in pursuing the Arts?I excelled in the

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