Painting
Portrait artist Susan Wilson
Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising. She's not into painting flattering images of her sitters. Audio
Painting conservation
Painting conservators not only restore paintings to their initial splendour. There's often a huge amount of detective work involved as well. That's certainly the case at Te Papa, where conservator… Audio
Art with Mary Kisler: William Hodges
Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discusses work by 18th century artist William Hodges. Audio
Billy Apple - Major Retrospective
Billy Apple is widely regarded as New Zealand's most significant conceptual artist. He's been recognised internationally, his works are in the Tate Britain, Guggenheim and other collections. The… Audio
Tranquillity Disturb'd
Why a new portrait of master mariner Captain James Cook has so many people upset even before it goes on show at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington. Nigel Brown's unconventional depiction… Audio
Tame Iti and Birgit Krippner - Cross-cultural Collaboration
Tuhoe painter Tame Iti and Austrian photographer Birgit Krippner are exhibiting their art together in a new exhibition at Wellington's Suite gallery. Tame Iti will show paintings and sculpture… Audio
Signing the treaty
The 175th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi has got a bunch of contemporary Maori artists thinking about what those who signed the document would have been feeling when they put their name or mark… Audio
Book review - Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974 - 2014
'Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974 - 2014' by Grahame Sydney, reviewed by Gregory O'Brien. Audio
Tongan art
Artist Dame Robin White has teamed up with young Tongan artist Ruha Fifiti and dozens of Tongan women to create a work the length of a swimming pool. It's traditionally made but much of the imagery is… Audio
Colour in your life: Jacky Pearson
A Wellington watercolourist's paintings are about to be seen around the world in a syndicated Australian TV show, Colour in Your Life. In it, Graeme Stevenson rocks up to artists' houses in New… Audio
Controversy over sale of famous artwork by Wellington Gallery
City Gallery in Wellington has sold at Christies Auction house in London a famous painting of dancer Anna Pavlova. The painting was bequeathed to it by a renowned New Zealand ballet dancer, who wanted… Audio
Louise Rive: Ceramic Artist
Louise Rive is the winner of the 2014 Premier Portage Award for Ceramic Arts. She tells Eva about her work. Audio
Peter Gibson-Smith: NZ Artist
Artist talks about his retrospective at the Pah Homestead in Auckland. Audio
Grahame Sydney: Paintings 1974-2014
London 1973. A frustrated young painter named Grahame Sydney gets an offer from his parents in Dunedin. They will support him for a year while he paints and then reassess. Forty years later the result… Audio
Roger Boyce: Artist
Christchurch-based US artist, lecturer and critic speaks about his latest exhibition 'Muse' taking place at Suite Gallery in Wellington. Audio
The Painter in the Painting
Thirty years of lonely figures in unsettling landscapes have come together in one exhibition of the work of artist Euan Macleod. The Painter in the Painting is the title of a major survey show that… Audio
Chromatic Investigations
Masterton's Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History has pulled off a coup that will make it the envy of galleries around the country. The gallery's director, Alice Hutchison, has spent the past… Audio
How Red Pigments Fade
Sarah Thomson is using a laser to probe the molecules in red pigments used in art to see how they fade due to light Audio
Art with Mary Kisler: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing the exhibition, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Audio
Miró's Music
Julie Sperring looks at the paintings of Joán Miró and the music they have inspired. Audio