Illustration
Artist Tayla Hartemink talks about her Te Wiki o te Reo Māori illustration
"I do a lot of my art based off mātauranga Māori. I learn and wānanga a lot with my kaumātua."
The illustrator whose art helps people see themselves differently | The Outliers
Huriana Koepke-Te Aho illustrates portraits that encourage people to see themselves in new ways.
They’re also an activist, recently lending their talents to the Protect Ihumātao movement,…
Māori Mermaid on how being Māori is a healing process | The Outliers
“I would say, oh I’m Māori. I’m Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Ruanui. You’d get challenged. You’d get oh, but how much Māori? What percentage are you?”
Jess Thompson…
Using poetry to talk about the climate crisis
Jordan Hamel is a writer, poet and award-winning poetry slam performer. He is one of the co-editors of the Climate Change Poetry Anthology, due to be…
In pictures: my life as a refugee in New Zealand
For 30 years New Zealand’s annual refugee quota sat at 750 people. In 2018 that number rose to 1000 and next month it will increase further…
Illustrations of what I think about on Waitangi Day
This Waitangi Day, we asked illustrators from across Aotearoa to draw what they think about on February 6th. Their images speak of resilience, courage, tenacity and…
Illustrations of decolonisation
As part of our series Rediscovering Aotearoa, we asked illustrator Virginia Ngaio to visualise some of the statistics and quotes we featured. They speak of love,…
Illustrator Ruby Jones on Going Viral and the Power of Drawing Kindness
After the Christchurch terror attacks, Ruby Jones illustrated two people hugging with the words, "This is your home and you should have been safe here." The…
Crafting a cartoon: Tales of Nai Nai
The new animated show Tales of Nai Nai needed over 400 mouth shapes to be digitally drawn, and most of them appear on their characters face…
Paul Walsh paints power boxes
Thanks to Paul the streets of Tāmaki Makaurau are becoming brighter. He's one of the artists painting the utility boxes around our fair city, giving local…