Fresh from their ‘Illustrator’ exhibition, TLC graduates and twins Alan and Dennis Poole came from an academic background, when they both discovered the Learning Connexion. They have re-ignited their passion for art and in particular, for commercial illustration.

Artist talk: Dennis And Alan Poole

Melina Martin graduated from The Learning Connexion after her Honours year, majoring in design and painting. Since then Melina has set up a shop on Willis Street called 'MadeIt' which specialises in selling handmade goods from around New Zealand.

She talks to our students about how she sustains her creativity after leaving TLC and the practical side of setting up her own business. Hosted by Dan Wilkinson.

Melina Martin

Mike is a graduate from the Learning Connexion School of Art and Creativity. He specialises in hard stone sculpture and he has created a number of impressive public sculptures. In this podcast Mike talks about his work and how he has sustained his creativity since leaving art school.

Artist Talk: Mike Heery

Juliet is a TLC Graduate. She talks about her time at the Learning Connexion as a certificate student focusing on photography.

She has just written and directed her first feature film called ‘Existence‘, which premiered at the NZ Film Festival.

Artist Talk: Juliet Bergh

James Henderson is a TLC Graduate with an interest in tattoo art and surreal painting.

Artist talk: James Henderson

Emma is the Senior Curator of the Dowse Museum in Lower Hutt and Manager of the Programmes team. Her background is extensive in arts management, she is a former Director of Artspace Auckland and Curatorial Director of Te Tuhi Centre of the Arts. Her passion for curating comes from her belief in working with artists and providing space for experimentation and risk.

Our curator talk with Emma was recorded at the Learning Connexion on the 9th of October 2013 on TLC Campus. Hosted by Carrie Burke.

Emma Bugden: Curator Talk

Robert is our official artist in residence at The Learning Connexion. You can hear his insights on art achieved through the way he works as an artist and the value of having a studio space to work from.

You can see more of Robert's work on his blog: http://robertsjourneys.blogspot.com/

Artist Talk: Robert Franken

Recorded on the 12th of November, 2013.
Redbird Junior talks to Dan Wilkinson on Active 88.6 fm about his recent exhibition ‘Beyond the physical’ at the Southern Cross.

Radio Active Interview with Artist Dan Wilkinson

Inclusion programme coordinator and TLC distance delivery mentor Marcel Baaijens shares his background story, his insights about  teaching and his own unique creative practice.

Artist Talk: Marcel Baaijens

Matt Gauldie is the official New Zealand Defense Force artist. He has been associated with the army and the New Zealand Defense Force for the last 10 years.

Hear this fascinating podcast about how Matt became the official New Zealand army artist and hear about his experiences of being a solider and an artist in New Zealand and abroad.

Artist Talk: Matt Gauldie

Parkin Drawing Award finalist Georgette Brown shares how her creative journey has unfolded since her time at The Learning Connexion. 

Artist Talk: Georgette Brown

The Learning Connexion has had the pleasure of showing Zou Zhe around its colourful campus for three weeks this month. Visiting from Xiamen’s Jimei University, as part of the Wellington sister city programme, she is here to absorb the quirky creative culture that we Kiwis have on offer. The glitter and disembodied mannequins around our campus have made their mark on our foreign visitor. “The Learning Connexion exceeds my expectations…even the building is mixed with painting, installations, sculpture…it is so unique,” she says. In turn she is showcasing the fantastic artistic talent Jimei University has and sharing her own knowledge of the Chinese art scene with our staff and students.

Zou Zhe - Lecture One

 
In this lecture series, held at The Learning Connexion school of creativity and art in Wellington, New Zealand, visiting artist Zou Zhe talks about Chinese contemporary art, Xiamen contemporary art, and the Xiamen University Annual Exhibition.


Zou Zhe Lecture Two: Chinese Contemporary Art

Fantastic opportunity for current TLC students to hear how the fabulous Wellington-based Su Keates has developed her life into a creative combination of jewellery, music, self-employment and more! 
http://www.threemarchhares.com/#!three-march-hares/ckra

Artist Talk: Su Keates

Matt Guild is a Learning Connexion graduate from 2006. He has featured in a number of successful shows including the ‘5 painters’ shows at the Academy of Fine Arts from 2008-2012.

Has recently released his own book called Memory Joggers (104 full colour pages to jog the memories).
This Artist Talk was be hosted by tutor Dan Wilkinson.

Artist Talk: Matt Guild

Sandy graduated with a Diploma of Art and Creativity (Honours) in 2000.
Sandy talks about her creative origins, her experience with High School Art, her family support and her work now.

http://www.sandyrodgers.co.nz/

TLC Artist Talks: Sandy Rodgers

Alan Black Interview

Rox Flame is a Wellington based TLC graduate that jumped head first into his career as a web/games developer with his close friend Alex Matthews. Their web development company XEquals is built on ambition, a friendship and many sleepless nights. With Alex's savvy business nature and Rox's technical ability the opportunities streamed in.

Rox has a busy lifestyle and building up his burgeoning business takes up all his spare time. He consciously maintains his art practise by carrying a sketchbook around, including to meetings. He has set up this website to post up work to help him be motivated to create.

In this podcast, Rox shares his inspiring and enterprising story with our students. He is proud of what they have achieved and XEquals is a thriving Wellington digital business, with a good client base, talented employees, contractors and interns.

TLC Artist Talks: Rox Flame

The Learning Connexion School of Creativity and Art brings together a panel of speakers to talk about copyright, creative commons and how it affects artists and art students.

Featuring: Matt McGregor (Creative Commons), Courtney Johnston (Dowse), Ruth Korver (TLC), Dan Wilkinson (TLC).

Copyright for Artists Panel Discussion

Tattoo Art can be found all over the world. The various designs from different cultures and times are fascinating from traditional Maori Moko and Pacific Tatou to Russian sailor tattoos.

Learning Connexion Graduate Brent Ryan discovered a love of design and drawing as a child. This long-standing passion evolved into a full-time career as a tattoo artist. Brent runs Jackson Street Tattoo in Petone and employs four other tattoo artists. He has travelled all over the world working in different studios and working at tattoo conventions.

In this podcast hosted by Dan Wilkinson, Brent talks about running his own tattoo business, working with Maori and Pacific design and telling stories through tattoo art.

TLC Artist Talks: Brent Ryan

When North American born Ceramics tutor Mel Ford, went on a five week international ‘artists in residence’ programme to Canada it was with a clear goal in mind. To explore Egyptian paste as a material: a) to get to know it, and b) to use it as an adhesive to glue her found ceramic shards together to create new forms.

Artist Talk: Mel Ford

TLC’s first Artists Talk podcast of 2016 features Irena May Kennedy, a sculpture artist. Irena was born in Wellington and gained a BFA at the Dunedin School of Art, where she was awarded the David Con Hutton Memorial Scholarship. She recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at Monash University in Melbourne. The scope of her work ranges from giant toenail clippers and bronze dogs, to ceramic white clay tyres suspended by porcelain chains.

Artists Talk: Irena Kennedy – sculpture artist

Johannes Mueller-Welschof comes from a background in textile - and fabric design. 

You are invited to this artist talk & hear his artistic journey and how he sustained himself during this period of time. 

Johannes will bring examples of what he created and talk about the various client projects and commissions that he was involved in

Hosted by Dan Wilkinson

TLC Artist Talk: Johannes Mueller-Welschof

Artist Talk - Cath Rodgers Podcast

TLC ArtistTalks - Dan Ross

Honours Talks - Morgan Linforth & Tereska Domanski

Artists and TLC graduates Lena Stackhouse and Shea Stackhouse featured in this month's Creativity Talk.

Shea specialises in bladesmithing, carving and creating handmade Damascus cutlery and jewellery. He is also the co-ordinator for the 3D department at The Learning Connexion. Lena's work features intricately carved organic forms and small sculptural objects. She also works in the Media Resource Production Team at The Learning Connexion.

Listen to them talk about what keeps them up at night, their individual art journeys, studying at TLC, and how they ended up working together collaboratively on a series of work.

Shea & Lena Stackhouse - Creativity Talk

Matt Sharp is a freelance cinematographer with 15 years experience capturing moving image for film. He recently won 'Best National' and 'Best Regional (Wellington)' cinematography awards in the 2016 48HR Film Challenge. He is also a member of staff working at The Learning Connexion.
 
TLC asked Matt to talk to students about his work and creative process. With more than 40 short films under his belt, many of which have won multiple awards in international film festivals, this is one Creativity Talk you’ll want to hear!

Follow the link to visit Matt's cinematography portfolio page where you can see his showreel and 48H short film which are discussed in the podcast along with other projects he has filmed over the years - http://ma6429.wixsite.com/matt-sharp

Matt Sharp - Creativity Talk

Diploma of Art & Creativity (Honours) students, Morrigan Smith and Aidan Walbaekken, talk about their art work.

Aidan Walbaekken, a distance learning student and Oriel Hoskin Scholarship winner, through his art, raised funds for those affected by the Kaikoura earthquake. He has also been working on a series of large kiwiana murals and billboards.

Morrigan Smith’s art making last year was a reflection of himself, a fusion of the male and female. He sought to find his own personal power and inner truth through art making.

Honours Talk – Aidan Walbaekken & Morrigan Smith

Mia Hamilton talks about fitting in study around her responsibilities and how she discovered her creative side at the Learning Connexion. She talks about a one year ceramics residency and how she maintains her life as an artist after The Learning Connexion (small bit of distortion at the beginning- but it comes right).

Mia Hamilton: Artist Podcast

Gain NZQA qualifications in transferable creativity through the vehicle of art. 

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