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  • Penny Kember, alias Merthyr Ruxton, in Paris
    Advice to My 22 Year Old Self

    Advice To My 22 Year Old Self: Merthyr Ruxton

    Some golden advice on managing in the creative world, brought to you by a contemporary abstract artist.
  • Image courtesy of Capital E
    Feature

    Bolstering Creativity

    Dr Sarah Rusholme from Capital E explains why creative expression is just as important as healthy eating for our tamariki’s well-being.
  • Elisabeth Pointon as part of her work, Would You Look at That
    The Lowdown

    Lowdown #34: Daffodils & Theatre Bombs

    This week, Mark Amery investigates why not all is quite right with the Hundertwasser in Whangarei, reports the film premieres of this week and shares some magic online content
  • Bruce Barber pointing to New Zealand in his appropriation of 'The Surrealist Map of the World,' 1929. Personal Structures: Open Borders, Palazzo Mora, Venice. Image: Contemporary HUM.
    Feature

    How to find the pulse of our creatives roaming the globe

    The online art platform that’s a must if you want to keep up with the exciting activity of our Kiwi artists working abroad. Sponsored by Contemporary HUM.
  • Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo supplied.
    Soapbox

    SOAPBOX: Opinion piece by Jacinda Ardern

    The PM and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage calls for art for the many, not the few.
  • Karl Chitham. Photo by Natascha Hartzuiker
    Who Got The Gig?

    Who Got the Gig? Karl Chitham

    The new director of The Dowse shares his favourite aspects of the job with Emanuella de Ruiter.
  • Zespri Spife, 1988. Photo by Neil Liversedge
    Feature

    New ideas: Challenging New Zealand's design

    An icon of New Zealand design, Peter Haythornthwaite shares his wishlist for the future, and recommendations for aspiring and established practitioners.
  • Rehearsal image, with Joshua Faleatua and Christy Poinsettia
    Advice to My 22 Year Old Self

    Advice To My 22 Year Old Self: Sarah Foster-Sproull

    Knowing your worth as a creative is your most crucial tool for success: Sarah encourages us to trust our gut and follow our imagination.
  • The Lowdown

    Lowdown #33: Crisis or rare opportunity for big change?

    Mark Amery is back introducing some exciting changes, why 2019 is the year of NZ women in film and some significant national art news.
  • Feature

    Same same but different

    Backstage jitters and screaming to the bathroom is part of performance challenge for Ruby Porter
  • Feature

    It's vital that you combat the Sunday Scaries!

    Time, we never seem to have enough of it. Lana Petrović and Kelly Gilbride share a nifty weapon for combating severe cases of Mondayitis.
  • Mentoring / Arts Smarts

    Arts Smarts: Why you need a career strategy

    Yes, even creatives need a career strategy! We talk to Tim Walker, master strategist, arts leader and mentor on The Big Idea mentoring program.
  • Don't Give up Your Day Job Podcast

    Don’t Give Up Your Day Job: Sylvia Massy

    Garden hoses, Christmas lights and smashed upright pianos. What do these have in common? You can hear them on a Sylvia Massy-produced album.
  • Advice to My 22 Year Old Self

    Advice to my 22 year old self: David O’Donnell

    As seasoned actor, director and Associate Professor in Theatre, David O’Donnell knows a thing or two to share with those as young and driven as Hamlet.
  • Feature

    A new look for The Big Idea I Te Ariā Nui

    Welcome to New Zealand’s home for creatives. We are proud as punch to launch our new look for The Big Idea website and brand.
  • Raymond McKay for Designstein/RUN
    Feature

    A Day in the Life: Raymond McKay

    Raymond McKay is the creative director of advertising and design agency RUN. Let's look over his shoulder to see how his day as a creative pans out.
  • Alexa Wilson. Photo: Jane Ussher
    Advice to My 22 Year Old Self

    Advice to my 22 year old self: Alexa Wilson

    Choreographer Alexa Wilson presents her manifesto for the radical artists in Aotearoa.
  • Sarah Farrar. Image by Jennifer French
    Who Got The Gig?

    Who Got the Gig? Sarah Farrar

    From rocket science to archeology: Emanuella de Ruiter gets inspired by the new Principal Curator at Toi o Tāmaki and her approach to learning and research.
  • Feature

    Exciting digital career paths for creatives

    Writers, artists, podcasters: new opportunities are opening up for creatives every year as more and more companies increase their presence online.
  • LitCrawl. Image by Russell Kleyn.
    Soapbox

    SOAPBOX: What it really takes to juggle an arts organisation with family life

    LitCrawl director Claire Mabey reflects on why flexibility is harder than we think.
  • Tracey Tawhiao_Works on Paper_2018
    Feature

    The Britomart Foundation: transforming the CBD through public art

    Findlay Buchanan talks to Jeremy Hansen about Britomart's vibrant public art project.
  • Real Mass Entrepreneurship (2017) installation view at OCAT Shenzhen, China. Photo courtesy of OCAT Shenzhen.
    Going Global

    Going Global: Simon Denny

    Simon Denny speaks to Ellen Falconer about his conversation with tech mogul Peter Thiel and life in Berlin’s art world.
  • Photo by Jocelyn Wu on Unsplash
    Soapbox

    SOAPBOX: There is limited art criticism in New Zealand – but it's not why you think

    In an age when rigorous critique gives way to hot takes, freelance arts writer Kate Powell asks just what the hell is going on. It’s not what you think. It’s worse.
  • Alien Weaponry. Image courtesy of their Australasian manager Hammerhead
    The Lowdown

    Lowdown #24 - Brokering the big time

    Indies going global! Mark Amery’s back with all the arts news and weather in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • Feature

    The many colours of Jennifer Ward-Lealand

    Jennifer talks about opportunity, optimism and lessons learned from a lifetime of creativity.
  • Slipper Island
    Advice to My 22 Year Old Self

    Advice to my 22 Year Old Self: Seek a mentor

    It’s fun asking people in their 30s to write some advice to their 22 year old self.
  • Serious: The Hamilton Sept of the Clan McGillicuddy at 100 Old Farm Road, December 1992.
    Soapbox

    Soapbox: The funny thing about satire

    Social media and smartphones mean everyone can now have their own soapbox
  • Amy Shamblin
    Soapbox

    Soapbox - Doing arts ain’t for sissies!

    Think the arts are all opening nights and cocktail parties?
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    Advice to My 22 Year Old Self

    Advice to my 22 Year Old Self: Learning to say no

    Creative Virginia Frankovich lets herself off the hook
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    The Lowdown

    The Lowdown #23: Media, money and marginalisation

    By James Littlewood.
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    Who Got The Gig?

    Who Got the Gig? Your Art. Our Rooms.

    Hotels have long been the bastion of cheesy print art. Now, there’s an exception. By Emmanuella de Ruiter.
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