The World of WearableArt (WOW) is a unique combination of the world’s leading wearable art competition and a spectacular stage show held in Wellington, New Zealand every year (except for the previous two years because when it was postponed because of the global pandemic). The competition was born in 1987 when Nelson sculptor Suzie Moncrieff …
‘Seeds of Life – the Bone Art of Bruce Mahalski’ is a new book by scientist and artist, Dr. Craig Hilton, with a foreword by Dr Billie Lythberg, which has been published by Auckland’s Rim Books. Both men are interested in the ethical and philosophical implications of using biological material (living and non-living) in art to critique what they …
In 2018 Mahalski moved back to his hometown and opened the Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery. The Museum fills three rooms of his old Victorian house close to the center of the southern city. Weird, beautiful – and weirdly beautiful – zoological, botanical and ethnological artefacts are artfully displayed in true Victorian collector style. Wooden …
I find it strange that not many people are prepared to use real human skulls in art today, although their visual representations appear absolutely everywhere. I recently acquired an old skull which had been sitting in the bottom of a cupboard for years and was in very poor condition. I decided to use it in …
