Painting

Today we can take our pick of masses of paint colours, but artists of earlier times had to painstakingly make their own pigments. Some were immensely expensive. Unstable ones faded or darkened. Dr… Audio, Gallery

19th century New Zealand painter; Gottfried Lindauer's hometown in the Czech Republic has started taking an interest in him. Plzen in the Czech Republic had all but forgotten Lindauer who immigrated… Audio

Artist Stanley Palmer has a personal connection to the Gallipoli campaign of 100 years ago. His father and uncle both served in the campaign, and Stanley went to Gallipolli last year with other New… Audio

Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising. She's not into painting flattering images of her sitters. Audio

Painting conservators not only restore paintings to their initial splendour. There's often a huge amount of detective work involved as well. That's certainly the case at Te Papa, where conservator… Audio

Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discusses work by 18th century artist William Hodges. Audio

Billy Apple is widely regarded as New Zealand's most significant conceptual artist. He's been recognised internationally, his works are in the Tate Britain, Guggenheim and other collections. The… Audio

Why a new portrait of master mariner Captain James Cook has so many people upset even before it goes on show at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington. Nigel Brown's unconventional depiction… Audio

Tuhoe painter Tame Iti and Austrian photographer Birgit Krippner are exhibiting their art together in a new exhibition at Wellington's Suite gallery. Tame Iti will show paintings and sculpture… Audio

The 175th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi has got a bunch of contemporary Maori artists thinking about what those who signed the document would have been feeling when they put their name or mark… Audio

'Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974 - 2014' by Grahame Sydney, reviewed by Gregory O'Brien. Audio

Artist Dame Robin White has teamed up with young Tongan artist Ruha Fifiti and dozens of Tongan women to create a work the length of a swimming pool. It's traditionally made but much of the imagery is… Audio

A Wellington watercolourist's paintings are about to be seen around the world in a syndicated Australian TV show, Colour in Your Life. In it, Graeme Stevenson rocks up to artists' houses in New… Audio

City Gallery in Wellington has sold at Christies Auction house in London a famous painting of dancer Anna Pavlova. The painting was bequeathed to it by a renowned New Zealand ballet dancer, who wanted… Audio

Louise Rive is the winner of the 2014 Premier Portage Award for Ceramic Arts. She tells Eva about her work. Audio

Artist talks about his retrospective at the Pah Homestead in Auckland. Audio

London 1973. A frustrated young painter named Grahame Sydney gets an offer from his parents in Dunedin. They will support him for a year while he paints and then reassess. Forty years later the result… Audio

Christchurch-based US artist, lecturer and critic speaks about his latest exhibition 'Muse' taking place at Suite Gallery in Wellington. Audio

Thirty years of lonely figures in unsettling landscapes have come together in one exhibition of the work of artist Euan Macleod. The Painter in the Painting is the title of a major survey show that… Audio

Masterton's Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History has pulled off a coup that will make it the envy of galleries around the country. The gallery's director, Alice Hutchison, has spent the past… Audio