Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich
Episodes
ART BY THE SEA art gallery - with Linda and Mike Geers
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Mike and Linda Geers, the owners of Art By The Sea, an art gallery in Hurstmere Road Takapuna, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland....
Katie Leigh Stewart - Multi media artist
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Leigh Stewart is a mixed media artist living in Wellington, Aotearoa NZ. Katie's paintings explore floral landscapes, portraiture, everyda...
Natalie Gelder - Multi disciplinary artist
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist born in Yorkshire, England, with a current focus on figurative oil paintings. Nat moved to New Zealan...
Andrew Barns-Graham - Contemporary artist
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Barns-Graham is an established Auckland-based artist known for his hard-edged contemporary portraits with a pop realist style. He renders smoo...
Kyra Alkamil - Emerging young artist
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kyra Alkamil is a 19 year old emerging artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, in her first year studying fine art at Elam School of Fine Art in Auckla...
Katrina Cosgrove - Contemporary Artist
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Cosgrove is a painter born in England who immigrated to NZ in 2005. She is now based in Bronte, a small settlement at the top of the South Isl...
Shelley Ryde - Painter, Printmaker, Writer
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shelley Ryde is a well known, highly respected Aotearoa art educator and artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland NZ. Shelley has led the visual a...
Kirsty Nixon - Contemporary artist
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Nixon is a contemporary New Zealand artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her vibrant, light-filled paintings celebrate the untamed beaut...
Sarah Ritchie - Fibre artist and author
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Ritchie is a New Zealand fibre artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.Sarah specialises in creating framed works in natural fibres such as ...
Ceara Lile - Textile artist
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ceara Lile is a fibre-based mixed media artist who grew up in West Auckland. She creates abstract textile collages layered with meaning, memory, and e...
Jane Shriffer - Abstract painter
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Shriffer is an abstract painter living and working in Wānaka in the south island of Aotearoa NZ. Jane paints intuitively, layering colour and te...
Katie Blundell - Multi media artist
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Blundell is a contemporary New Zealand artist, living and working from her studio in Clevedon, south east of Auckland. Focusing on the human exp...
Lynette Fisher - Contemporary painter
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lynette Fisher is a contemporary painter living in Te Puna near Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. Lynette's art practice also encompasses printmakin...
MUSE ART GALLERY - with Kaye McGarva
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Muse Gallery, founded by Kaye McGarva in 2017, is situated in Havelock North, in the Bay of Plenty, Aoteaora NZ.In this episode I talk to Kaye McGarva...
Caitlin Johnston - Multi media artist
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Caitlin Johnston is a multi media artist living near the Hibiscus Coast north of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.As a Kiwi, much of Caitlin's work show...
Fiona Kerr Gedson - Feather Artist
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Kerr Gedson is a fibre artist who has used feathers as her primary medium for more than 25 years. She works from her home near Ōpōtiki, in the...
Lucy Eglington - Painter
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy Eglington is a painter originally from the UK who immigrated to Aotearoa in 2003. She works from her home studio in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland....
Alexandra Tylee - Painter
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Tylee is a painter living in Poukawa in the Hawkes Bay. From her early twenties until her early forties Alexandra setup and ran 2 successful...
Anna Stichbury - Contemporary Artist
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Stichbury is a contemporary New Zealand artist from Wellington whose practice spans painting and installation, distinguished by her bold use of c...
Sur Collective - A Latina Artist Collective
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sur Collective is an artist collective founded in 2021 out of a need to create a sense of place and redefine the space Latina artists use as migrant w...
CONNECTION - 4 guest artists from the group show
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is different to our usual format. Mandy is in the Kumeu Arts gallery at the podcast group show CONNECTION with 4 previous podcast guest a...
Mandy Jakich - Talking community with artist Julie Battisti
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to season 9 of Creative Connections. I’m so excited to be back with weekly episodes and a fantastic varied line up of artists book...
Janette Cervin - Contemporary Painter
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janette Cervin is a contemporary painter. She lives in Warkworth, north of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, with her partner and artistic collaborator Jake ...
Alice Alva: Multi-disciplinary artist
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Alva is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Kirikiriroa – Hamilton, New Zealand. Her work is informed by an interest in patterns, ornamentati...
Michelle McIver - Contemporary Artist
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle McIver's is a contemporary artist who grew up in rural Otago and is now living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her work explores the inter...
Resale Royalties Aotearoa, Toi Huarau
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Resale Royalties Scheme brings New Zealand in line with global standards to ensure artists are fairly compensated when their work is resold.It mea...
Isaac Weston - Copper Artist
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Weston is a full-time copper artist based in Matua, Tauranga, Aotearoa NZ.Isaac’s creative process is a unique blend of artistry and alchemy, ...
Sefton Rani - Parehuia Artist in Residence
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sefton Rani describes himself as a maker, who uses paint as his primary material. Based in Auckland, he is a visual DJ who mashes up industrial materi...
Claudia Aalderink - Contemporary artist
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Claudia Aalderink is a self-taught artist based in Kihikihi, near Hamilton in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is also the founder and director of The Mandar...
Sara Langdon - Contemporary Artist
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Langdon is a contemporary New Zealand landscape artist living in Beachlands, East of Auckland. Sara currently draws inspiration from the beauty o...
James Watkins - Painter
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Oxford in the UK in 1984, James Watkins moved to Auckland, New Zealand at a young age, kicking off a lifelong journey of travel and creative e...
Delainy Jamahl - Visual artist & creative technologist
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Working at the intersection of art and technology, Delainy Jamahl's art practice focuses on data as the central narrative. He creates immersive a...
Anna Gibbs - Conservation Artist
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Gibbs is a contemporary painter living in Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch in the South Island of Aotearoa NZ. If you search her name on Googl...
Alex Wilkinson - Ceramic Artist and entrepreneur
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 155, the final episode of 2024. Ngā mihi nui Thank you so much for listening and for your support this year. I hope the podcast ha...
Roy Mason from Fingers Contemporary Jewellery Collective
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Established in 1974 by a group of young jewellery makers to promote their work, Fingers has become synonymous with innovation and originality and the ...
Bailee Lobb - Sculpture, installation and performance artist
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bailee Lobb is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 and now based in Wellington. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works wi...
Julie Battisti - Painter
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Battisti is a painter who grew up in Melbourne Australia and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband in 2017, settling first in Rawene in...
Chris Melville - Photographer
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Melville is a photographer, graphic designer and jazz musician living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. In his latest photographic collection, Chr...
Ross Jones - Painter
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Jones is a painter creating works that evoke a heady sense of nostalgia and elevated playfulness, living in Snells Beach on the east coast north ...
Cathy Carter - Photographic + multi media conceptual artist
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Carter is a photographic and multimedia conceptual artist, living in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Cathy's art is inspired by concerns about climat...
Jeff Thomson - Sculptor
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Thomson is a sculptor living in the little suburb of Helensville, in the north west of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is well known for his corrug...
Emma Hercus - Figurative Painter
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Hercus is a painter born in Hastings and now living in Plimmerton, just north of Wellington.The everchanging ocean and its view from her home ser...
GUEST UPDATE: Kylie Rusk
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm catching up with painter, printmaker Kylie Rusk to see what she's been up to since I last spoke to her in March 2021.Listen to Kyl...
Gilly Sheffield - Contemporary Artist
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gilly Sheffield is a sculptor | weaver living in both Glendowie in Auckland and Wanaka in the South Island. After a lifetime of making, it was only a...
Sue and Karen Gardiner from the Chartwell Trust
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepe...
Levi Hawken - Contemporary sculptor
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Levi Hawken is a brutalist | modernist sculptor living and working in west Auckland. His practice includes sculpture in concrete, glass, wood and bron...
Di Tocker - Sculptural glass artist
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Di Tocker is a sculptural glass artist living and working from her purpose built studio in Cambridge, in the Waikato.Di maintains a structured approac...
Ronja Schipper - Re:purpose Ronja
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ronja Schipper has been lovingly making up-cycled art objects since 2015. She lives in the Waitakere Ranges in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.Ronja uses w...
Mandy Patmore - Mixed-media environmental artist
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mandy Patmore is a multi-media environmental artist living in Karekare, on Auckland’s west coast. Primarily a painter, Mandy's current work fo...
Dita Angeles - Contemporary Fine Artist
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in Auckland, Dita Angeles completed her BFA at Whitecliffe College in 2004 before spending the majority of her career in Asia and more...
Leigh Tawharu - Mixed media artist
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leigh Tawharu, is a contemporary mixed media and printmaking artist living in Kaeo, Te Tai Tokerau in the far north of Aotearoa NZ.Her work is created...
Sam Leitch - Contemporary painter, print maker
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Leitch is a contemporary painter and print maker living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.Sam sees himself as a storyteller of everyday life and the un...
GUEST UPDATE: Frankie Meaden
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GUEST UPDATE: Textile artist Frankie Meaden was last interviewed on the podcast in July 2023 in episode 87.Today we catch up with her to hear about wh...
Agate Rubene - Artist, Illustrator
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agate Rubene, aka Restless & Infectious, is an artist and illustrator with a background in fashion and graphic design. She is from Latvia and now ...
Jennie De Groot - Contemporary Painter
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jennie De Groot is a contemporary painter living near Hamilton in the Waikato. Jennie's oil paintings occupy a space where reality, imaginatio...
Alice Fennessy - Visual artist
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Fennessy is an artist based in Palmerston North in the Manawatu. She uses drawing to convey themes such as intimacy, domestic life and interior ...
Rosanna Raymond - Activator, Fabricator
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Rosanna Raymond aka Sistar S’pacific is in her words an "activator, fabricator" who has achieved international renown for her perfo...
Georgina Hoby Scutt - Contemporary Painter
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgina is a painter living in Nelson in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of NZ. Informed by her print & pattern textile design background, Georg...
Jamie Adamson - Sculptor
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Adamson is a sculptor based in East Auckland. He works in a range of materials including rimu, pine, oak, pohutukawa, maple, walnut and steel. ...
Pam Wildbore - Contemporary artist
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Wildbore is a contemporary artist from Hastings now living in Napier.Pam is a resin and acrylic artist who began her art practice only 4 years ago...
Natalie Holland - Textile artist
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Holland is a textile artist from Wellington. She produces bright and colourful punch needle pieces that feature motifs and patterns used in hi...
Yvonne Abercrombie - Contemporary artist
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yvonne Abercrombie is a contemporary artist living in Helensville just north of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Applying the figure to an abstract landsca...
Rachael Errington - Visual artist
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachael Errington is a visual artist living, working and exhibiting in both New Zealand and Australia. She has been showing her paintings professional...
Tim Jones: Contemporary painter
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Jones is a contemporary painter born in the UK and living in Matakana New Zealand. He creates bold abstract paintings through the use of strong ge...
Zoë Nash: Multi-disciplinary artist
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Zoë Nash is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Her brightly coloured, abstract works explore a slow and mindful accumula...
Belinda Griffiths - Conceptual figurative artist
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Belinda Griffiths is a conceptual figurative artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Her work lies within the disciplines of painting and printmak...
Clinton Christian - Visual artist
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clinton Christian (aka Clint© or CC'd) is an award winning contemporary New Zealand artist based in Hamilton New Zealand. His graphic style, th...
POPUP virtual platform - with Naomi Azoulay
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
POPUP is a versatile platform for artists, organisations, and venues in Aotearoa to produce their own online experiences. Born out of years of online ...
Nic Dempster - Visual Artist
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dunedin based artist Nic Dempster has been part of the city’s art scene for over twenty years. His bold colourful geometric style has developed out ...
Brother Theo - with Charles Tongue
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I'm chatting to Charles Tongue, the founder and CEO of Brother Theo - a platform dedicated to career coaching and legacy planning...
Robyn Fleet - Emerging Artist
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robyn Fleet is a painter from the Hawkes Bay. Her paintings capture the essence of human experiences and our deep connections to the environment. Rob...
Sally Bulling - Contemporary Artist
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Bulling is a contemporary New Zealand painter living in Queenstown. Invoking a sense of energy, Sally Bulling's abstract works are created...
Tim Christie - Multi disciplinary digital artist
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Christie is a designer and artist currently based in Wellington New Zealand.His innovative, fashion-forward artistic style has been described as a...
Alison Gilmour - Contemporary Painter
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Gilmour is a painter from Auckland, New Zealand. She grew up in Devonport, a coastal suburb in Auckland, which has instilled a deep love of the...
Dominique Marriott - Contemporary Artist
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is kindly supported by Turua GalleryDominique Marriott is a Waikato-based artist living near Raglan on the west coast. She specialises in...
Raymond Sagapolutele - Contemporary photographer
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond Sagapolutele is an Aotearoa NZ-born Sāmoan artist and academic living in Manurewa in Auckland. His photographic practice focuses on his lived...
James Emery - Emerging Artist
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Auckland based artist James Emery has always had a keen interest in art and art history, particularly NZ art from the 1950s and 60s and the American a...
Jae Frew - Contemporary portrait photographer
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jae Frew is a contemporary portrait photographer previously based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland and now living in Mahurangi.Jae's commercial care...
Michael McHugh - Visual Artist
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Michael McHugh is New Zealand born and resides in Sydney Australia. For more than three decades, he has been exploring the vast potential of co...
Faleata Ualesi - Emerging Contemporary Samoan Artist
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Faleata Ualesi is an emerging contemporary Samoan Artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. His current work is built around motifs shown through gr...
Tony Ogle - Screen Printer, Painter
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Ogle is known as one of New Zealand’s leading screen printers. He currently lives in Tairāwhiti, Gisborne. Next month in March Tony celebrate...
Tawhai Rickard - Contemporary Maori Artist
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tawhai Rickard is a contemporary New Zealand Maori artist born in Gisborne, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, of Ngati Porou decent.He is influenced by the epic his...
Esther Bunning - Contemporary Photographic Artist
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Esther is a photographic artist living in Greytown in the Wairarapa. She has had a long successful photographic career firstly in wedding photography ...
Naomi Azoulay - Contemporary Collage Artist
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi Azoulay is a middle-eastern-born, Auckland-based award-winning portrait and mixed media collage artist. Naomi creates captivating, bold, intima...
Oliver Cain - Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Cain is an English born artist who emigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2013. His work covers a wide range of topics and materials and takes ma...
Joshua Davison - Contemporary Artist
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Davison is a contemporary artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, with a diverse body of work in both realism portraiture and sculptural paintin...
Misery - Painter, Sculptor, Mural Artist
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tanja McMillan, a.k.a Misery, is an Australian born painter, sculptor, photographer and mural artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her creative...
Sierra Roberts - Artist
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sierra Roberts is an artist from Wānaka, in the South Island of New Zealand. She creates bold, statement portraits exploring perceptions of beauty an...
Angela Rowe - Artist, Writer, Curator, Mentor
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Rowe is an artist, writer, curator and mentor based in Whangārei. Her creative practice includes storytelling across performance, installation...
Jamie Chapman - Painter
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Chapman is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. He was born in the United Kingdom and immigrated with his family to New Zealand when h...
Sofia Athineou - Glass Artist
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sofia Athineou is a full-time artist of Greek heritage, based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her practice is mainly in glass, a medium she sees as havi...
Andrew J. Steel - Contemporary Artist
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew J. Steel is a New Zealand contemporary artist with a passion for story telling. Over his career he has worked across the mediums of public art,...
Tanya Blong - Contemporary Artist
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Blong was our very first guest on the Creative Matters podcast and lucky for us she is back 96 episodes later to talk about her artistic journey...
Julie and Michael Freeman - Hyperrealist Pastel Artists
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julie and Michael Freeman are award winning hyperrealistic pastel artists living in Auckland NZ.Julie is currently creating work with the intent of...
Toby Raine - Contemporary Artist
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Raine is a contemporary artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. He has a distinctive approach to his work, moving large quantities of oil pa...
Matthew Browne - Abstract Artist and Founder/Director of Browne School of Art
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Browne is an abstract painter living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Born in London UK, he relocated to New Zealand in 1991. Matthew's str...
Fleur Woods - Contemporary Fibre Artist
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fleur Woods is a contemporary fibre artist based in the beautiful rural village of Upper Moutere (near Nelson, New Zealand) She is surrounded by viney...
Evan Woodruffe - Abstract Artist
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract artist Evan Woodruffe lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is a well known, much loved figure in the NZ art world.Evan is an artist with ma...
Sean Beldon - Visual Artist
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Beldon is a South African born, Auckland-based artist best known for his large New Zealand landscape paintings. His style is mostly painterly wit...
Jasmine Kroeze - Artist and Textile Designer
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmine Kroeze is an an artist and textile designer living in Papamoa near Mt Maunganui. With a background in the fashion and textile design industr...