Imaginary friends
Listener - May 31 2008
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Femmes fatales and animal-human creatures mingle in the other worldly landscapes of Séraphine Pick.
"Is the baby crying or yawning?" a woman asks Séraphine Pick at her exhibition of paintings After Image. It's hard to get a word in edgeways as we walk around Waikanae's Mahara Gallery. Another woman asks if she was influenced by Tony Fomison's work. "People do seem to come up and talk to me at my shows like that," Pick says. "I guess my work must encourage questioning."
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In Kim Hill's Den
The Dominion Post - February 21, 2004
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On a Saturday morning Kim Hill is in her element ("They say I have a good face for radio") doing live interviews on her weekend show. Lindsay Rabbitt drops in to capture the mood on and off air.
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The Survivor
The Dominion Post - January 17, 2004
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Poor sales, even death, couldn't stop Geoff Cochrane.
"When I go to church nowadays, I find it disappointing," Geoff Cochrane says while we eat lunch at his mother Patricia's house in Levin. "You never went (as an adult)," Patricia retorts. "But I did want to join a monastery . . . for non-believers."
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Tougher Than The Rest
Listener - October 18, 2003
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As the Rugby World Cup kicks off, former All Black and current All Black selector Mark Shaw explains the new team's philosophy and what it takes to impress him.
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Served Rare
Listener - May 25, 2002
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The market for rare and collectable New Zealand books is booming.
Whether they're worth reading is neither here nor there, but there is good money to be flogging rare, collectable New Zealand books. Peter Trewern, manager of Otaki-based Bethunes Rare Books, the country's largest book auctioneers, knows a guy who recently bought a hand-coloured botanical book at auction. "He paid $NZ1100 for it and sold it soon after for $US7000," he says. "That's not a bad markup and it happens all the time. I have people bringing books here. They have paid $2 for them at some fair and they're worth $200."
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They Came to the City
Listener - November 10, 2001
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Two weeks before the publication of The Silent Migration, an impressive new book that recalls the great urban migration of Maori in the middle of the 20th century, Agnes "Bubs" Broughton had a stroke which was probably brought on by trying to catch the postman to post off a list of the people she wanted to attend the launch of the book at Wellington's Pipitea Marae.
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Sex and the City Gallery
Listener - June 9, 2001
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Cult, crap and culture mix it up in Wellington.
What is it about 1950s and early 1960s popular culture that twenty- and thirtysomethings want to replicate? The style without the boring bits, perhaps. Watch Sex and the City and you'll see sex-savvy starlets wearing 50s-style stiletto heels and drinking martinis, with lounge music notating their sexual escapades. But what, you may ask, has this got to do with a survey exhibition of New Zealand art currently showing at Wellington's City Gallery?
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A Wahine Christ
Listener - September 9, 2000
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A reinvention of the 14 Stations of the Cross.
Above the altar at St Luke's Anglican in Waikanae, images of early patriarchs Wi Parata Te Kakakura and missionary Octavius Hadfield flank an image of St Luke in stained glass. Wi Parata, who was elected to Parliament as the member for Western Maori in 1871, gifted the land for St Lukes to be built. He is Hariata Ropata Tangahoe's great-great-grandfather, and this is the church that Hariata attended as a child. It is also the seedbed, for "Anahera Te Pono", a remarkable work of art that tells the story of Anahera, "a faithful brown angel".
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First XV
Listener - August 26, 2000
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A new novel credits the legendary 1905 All Blacks, "The Originals", with the birth of a nation.
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The New Jerusalem
The Sunday Star Times - March 28, 1999
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Dancer Michael Parmenter and his team are on a pilgrimage, touring a work inspired by James K Baxter. Lindsay Rabbitt hits the road to Jerusalem.
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