Image: Revolution Creative & Artslab at employment expo SHAPING CREATIVE EMPLOYMENT IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND In May 2020, during Covid-19 Lockdown, the Government announced $7. 9 million to support creative job seekers, building on the most successful aspects of…
1. How did you get into printmaking? There was no more room in the painting department at art school (!). They suggested I stay in the printmaking department and also take part in the painting department. But I got hooked…
1. How did you coin up the term āUrban Tapaā? It was just one of those things that pop into your head and sticks and wonāt go away so I figured I should embrace it. As a term it made…
Depot ARTSPACE: REFRAMING THE FUTURE āYou never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.ā āĀ Buckminster Fuller Covid 19 has catapulted us into the unknown. We are…
As lockdown passes the halfway mark, what have I learnt from it? A big thing, as I travel around my local bubble and observe signs of a regenerating environment, that Iāll be taking greater care of this living planet…
A Face to the Future: Depot Artspace Perspective on the Creative Community Post Covid-19 This submission to the Local Boardās Annual Plan was prepared before Covid-19 required NZers to Lock down, leaving many community organisations and small businesses uncertain of,…
WHEN A CRISIS SIGNALS THE NEED FOR CHANGE Ā We have included this letter on the Arts In Action page, because we believe that alternative views byĀ people with a long history of involvement in creating a more equitable society…
“You want a prediction about the weather?…….. It’s going to be cold, it’s going to be dark and it’s going to last you for the rest of your lives!” Phil OāConnor, in Groundhog Day, 1993 Jerry Howlett: Ascend, 2019 (diorama…
Depot Artspace is a socially conscious creative hub. We employ the transformative capacity of the arts to engage, inspire, and challenge the community. We are guided by the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi: partnership, protection and participation. In…
Much as Iām opposed to over-utilised, populist aphorisms thereās one thatās particularly pertinent to our previous posting on advocacy and activism. Itās āwalking the talkā and the piece by Jermaine Reihana is an example of this as he describes Depot…
