Pip McKay, part-time diploma student at The Learning Connexion, talks to us about her re-usable cloth bag designed for the Upper Hutt City Council.

Pip McKay, part-time diploma student at The Learning Connexion, talks to us about her re-usable cloth bag designed for the Upper Hutt City Council.

The Restricted Programme Art and Creativity students have been serving up art so good you can just about taste it. Visitors to Visa’s Wellington on a Plate, Rimutaka Prison Gate to Plate, get to eat a Top Chef inspired full course dinner, whilst they sit amongst food plate-art created by prisoners.

The Restricted Programme Art and Creativity students have been serving up art so good you can just about taste it. Visitors to Visa’s Wellington on a Plate, Rimutaka Prison Gate to Plate, get to eat a Top Chef inspired full course dinner, whilst they sit amongst food plate-art created by prisoners.

You kinda get a funny feeling once you discover that a place you used to call home is about to be demolished and converted – to be changed into something else entirely.

You kinda get a funny feeling once you discover that a place you used to call home is about to be demolished and converted – to be changed into something else entirely.

Sebastien Jaunas – Finalist in the 25th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2016

Sebastien Jaunas – Finalist in the 25th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2016

Forget Daenerys Targaryen from GOT. Meet Jane Toy – Whanganui’s ‘Den of Dragons’ winner, artist and now event entrepreneur.

Forget Daenerys Targaryen from GOT. Meet Jane Toy – Whanganui’s ‘Den of Dragons’ winner, artist and now event entrepreneur.

Last week graduate Cath Rogers joined us for an artist talk about her recent exhibition ‘Electro Nouveau’ which is currently on at the Potocki Patterson gallery in Wellington. Cath also spoke about her time at The Learning Connexion and what she has been up too since graduating in 2011.

Last week graduate Cath Rogers joined us for an artist talk about her recent exhibition ‘Electro Nouveau’ which is currently on at the Potocki Patterson gallery in Wellington. Cath also spoke about her time at The Learning Connexion and what she has been up too since graduating in 2011.

Creative block. It’s that moment where, for whatever reason, an artist can’t access their inspiration. Creative block can occur anytime and anywhere, usually because you’re emotionally drained, physically tired, or had your work criticised.

Creative block. It’s that moment where, for whatever reason, an artist can’t access their inspiration. Creative block can occur anytime and anywhere, usually because you’re emotionally drained, physically tired, or had your work criticised.

“It’s not easy to stand up and be yourself. My art is the sum of all of my experience, my knowledge, my tastes, my everything...”

“It’s not easy to stand up and be yourself. My art is the sum of all of my experience, my knowledge, my tastes, my everything...”

An act of kindness for Gazza the police dog whose call of duty lead to his ultimate sacrifice.

An act of kindness for Gazza the police dog whose call of duty lead to his ultimate sacrifice.

Is painting dead? Is it in its final death throes, or has it merely gone underground? What do you think? Tell us your P.O.V.

Is painting dead? Is it in its final death throes, or has it merely gone underground? What do you think? Tell us your P.O.V.