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Jessie Rose’s Journey To Creative Industries Award

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Self-taught art entrepreneur Jessie Rose Foote won the Creative Northland Excellence in Creative Industries Award at the Westpac Northland Business Excellence Awards on October 27. The award’s title fits Jessie’s brand perfectly – a marriage of artwork and business savvy. Awards judges described the Kamo artist as “inspiring our children to open their eyes to develop their creative thinking […]

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WDC Funding Rounds Open

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The Whangarei District Council supports community groups for a variety of events, amenities and services through our community funding scheme. They want to hear from not-for-profit community organisations who are working to benefit our communities of place, of people and of interest. If you need support with a project or activity that is helping to

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Art & chicken farms

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Activism is not something you associate with David Sarich and yet he has picked up his brushes and painted a 1.2 x 2.4-metre mural to protest against the proposed Chicken farm south of Dargaville. Reading an article written by the author, writer Therese Sjoquist, Sarich commented ‘ Painting is another language; a more truthful language, but

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