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World Of Wearable Art 2022 – Fera Dei

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

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Seeds of Life – the Bone Art of Bruce Mahalski

Seeds of Life – the Bone Art of Bruce Mahalski

‘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

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The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery

The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery

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

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