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UK artist featuring in annual Coromandel art event

Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 10:44 am | Word of Mouth Media

    A UK artist who spends every summer in New Zealand will produce vibrant new figurative works in the Mercury Bay art escape event which opens on the Coromandel later this month. More >>

Canterbury Artist To Show Nudes At City Studio

Monday, 1 February 2010, 12:19 pm | Word of Mouth Media

A highly talented mature artist who was shot at and stoned by Turks, man-handled by Algerians, beaten up on a Turkish train and was a television show panellist with Selwyn Toogood will stage her first major exhibition in Christchurch later this month. More >>

Fashion Event At Addington To Pick Best Dressed

Monday, 1 February 2010, 11:11 am | Word of Mouth Media

Addington race organisers are searching for the best dressed woman and man at their annual Waitangi Day event on February 6. Leading New Zealand fashion event specialist Angela Stone will be organising the best dressed pair, in their black and white themed ... More >>

NZ art exhibition marks Battle of Monte Cassino

Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 9:44 am | Word of Mouth Media

Possibly the biggest art event ever to be held in Italy, will be held at Cassino on May 15-29 to commemorate New Zealand’s involvement there 66 years ago. More >>

South African artist In Solo Auckland exhibition

Monday, 18 January 2010, 10:58 am | Word of Mouth Media

Auckland’s former South African artist Lauryne Hart will provide an impassioned view on people at a major solo exhibition in Takapuna, Auckland, next month.Hart moved to New Zealand 12 years ago but still has a passion for the people and colour ... More >>

Top NZ Stylist Angela Stone To Stage Fashion Show

Thursday, 14 January 2010, 1:11 pm | Word of Mouth Media

Top New Zealand stylist Angela Stone will stage a major fashion event at the Stella Artois international polo match in Christchurch on January 23 and 24. More >>

Top NZ stylist to stage big fashion show at polo

Thursday, 14 January 2010, 12:28 pm | Word of Mouth Media

Top New Zealand stylist Angela Stone will stage a major fashion event at the Stella Artois international polo match in Christchurch on January 23 and 24. More >>

2010 - pivotal to secure world night sky reserve

Friday, 18 December 2009, 2:42 pm | Word of Mouth Media

  Next year is pivotal to the success of New Zealand seeking a world heritage night sky reserve for Tekapo Aoraki-Mt Cook. More >>

Queenstown is world resort for everyone

Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 9:30 am | Word of Mouth Media

What a different a decade makes. Ten years ago, Queenstown in New Zealand, was the adventure capital of the world, only to become became the adrenalin-junkies’ capital of the world. Today, the world-award winning alpine village with billion dollar views ... More >>

Irrigators could suck rivers dry

Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 1:48 pm | Word of Mouth Media

Environment Canterbury’s decision to give Central Plains Water, a private company, consent to take water from the Waimakariri and Rakaia rivers for irrigation on the Central Canterbury Plains has resulted in a protest art exhibition in Christchurch ... More >>

Art exhibition at Sol Square next week

Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 1:32 pm | Word of Mouth Media

Retrospective sensual art and holographic photo works feature in the pre-Christmas New Zealand Limited Ink Art exhibition at Sol Square in Christchurch next week. More >>

NZ One Of Five Top Night Sky Reserve Sites

Thursday, 12 November 2009, 9:52 am | Word of Mouth Media

New Zealand confirmed as one of five world heritage night sky reserve sites to go to Rio meeting next year More >>

World Starlight Reserves Taking Too Long

Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:53 am | Word of Mouth Media

The process to recognise world starlight reserves, including the Tekapo-Aoraki/Mt Cook bid, is taking far too long, former Cabinet minister Margaret Austin told a UNESCO conference in Santa Cruz, the Canaries Islands, today. Tekapo – Aoraki/Mt ... More >>

Top NZ artist wins Aussie cricket art prize

Monday, 12 October 2009, 10:59 am | Word of Mouth Media

Leading New Zealand artist Jane Kellahan has tonight won the $A20,000 Australian Cricket Art Prize. Fourteen Kiwi artists along with 218 Aussie painters submitted works for the inaugural Aussie cricket art prize competition, in which 32 paintings ... More >>

Award winning NZ artist in Wellington auction

Friday, 9 October 2009, 10:11 am | Word of Mouth Media

Outstanding New Zealand artist Jane Kellahan, who last night in Sydney won the inaugural $A20,000 Australian Cricket Art Prize, is among some of the top Kiwi artists who are auctioning works in a big charity art auction in Wellington on November 1. The ... More >>

Spy Valley wine being served in business class

Thursday, 1 October 2009, 1:05 pm | Word of Mouth Media

  Spy Valley’s rise continued today with the announcement that its sauvignon blanc will be served on Air New Zealand long-haul services. More >>

Moeraki – a largely untouched world

Thursday, 24 September 2009, 1:54 pm | Word of Mouth Media

Plod out onto the little wharf at Moeraki around sunrise. The chugging sounds of a tiny Otago fishing village seem largely unspoiled by time. A salty breeze wafts across the old whaling port. The gulls swoop around fishing boats heading back with ... More >>

Jucy Rentals to open in Greymouth

Friday, 11 September 2009, 9:31 am | Word of Mouth Media

Jucy Rentals, New Zealand fastest growing rental company, next month opens on the West Coast, their ninth branch in Australasia. More >>

Solid recovery after -battering for NZ wines

Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 10:24 am | Word of Mouth Media

New Zealand has begun to see a solid recovery in export markets as the northern hemisphere summer comes to a close and the Christmas period comes into focus, according to a leading New Zealand wine expert Blair Gibbs. Wine companies were cautiously ... More >>

Big famous NZ faces to be seen at Queenstown

Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 10:12 am | Word of Mouth Media

What do jeweller Michael Hill, cricketer Richard Hadlee, equestrian rider Mark Todd and bungy jumper AJ Hackett all have in common? They are among 11 great big portraits in a rare first portrait art exhibition opening at Queenstown Airport Terminal this ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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