03 Magazine: September 01, 2023

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with confidence and get the best possible 

start in life. 

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access to an education and the ability to turn 

up looking and feeling like everyone else, it 

really is that simple. It is a big goal, but one the 

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6 Magazine | Editor’s note 

Hello 

Having lived in the North Island for the better part of my 

adult years, and the South Island just 18 months, the 

delight I feel at the promise of snow is as fresh as the first day 

I arrived in Christchurch armed with a new puffer jacket and a 

possum/merino beanie. 

So I couldn’t resist another snowy cover this month, despite 

the increasing number of milder days (but, as I write this, the 

weather report nods to the possibility of snow to low levels this 

weekend, so my dream of waking up to a winter wonderland in 

the city remains a reality) – and the opportunity to chat to the 

wonderful high country farming foodie Pip Cameron and share 

some of her favourite recipes (think cheese scones, savoury 

mince on toast and a delectable chocolate whisky cake) was an 

added bonus. 

For those not as partial to (okay, obsessed with) fresh powder 

as I am, the contents of this issue should still provide plenty of 

spring vibes and great reads whatever the weather outside. 

Enjoy! 

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FOOD 

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28 High country home cooking 

Farmer and cookbook author 

Philippa Cameron on smoko 

fare and social media fame 

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22 Most wanted 

What the 03 team are coveting 

right now 

50 Barriers and breakthroughs 

Julia Atkinson-Dunn shares the 

transformative thrill of home 

gardening 

FASHION 

24 Flower power 

Fashion-forward florals warm 

our wardrobes for spring 

38 Game, set, match 

The statement sports-inspired 

looks that took out this year’s 

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A former McCahon House resident draws 

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Dunedin Public Art Gallery 

66 Alien nation 

Jess Johnson’s spaced-out scenes unfold 

on- and off-screen at Tūhara Otago 

Museum 

72 Book club 

Great new reads to please even the 

pickiest of bookworms 

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The best beauty products and styling tools 

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What’s up, in, chat-worthy, cool, 

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What’s up, in, chat-worthy, cool, covetable 

and compelling right now. 

Italian spring 

A little bit of Italy is in the air in Christchurch, with Ōtautahibased 

candle creatives Nevé releasing two new spring scents, 

one inspired by a trip to Sorrento and the other built on a 

base of Roman chamomile. ‘Seaside In Sorrento’ was born 

when Nevé founder Tessa Lyes visited an organic limoncello 

farm overlooking Mt Vesuvius while cruising the winding coastal 

roads of Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula. The resulting scent has 

hints of ripe citrus zest, bergamot, wild herbs and cashmere. 

‘Chamomile Calm’ is an invitation to relax, blending a grounding 

base of Roman chamomile, soft sage and sandalwood, balanced 

with meditative notes of lavender and bright, sweet orange. As 

a busy business owner struggling with balance, Tessa wanted 

to create something to inspire mindfulness at home and the 

fragrance was designed to be the perfect companion to ground 

your senses and calm the mind. Both are available in candles, 

room spray or car diffuser formats from mid-September. 

neve.co.nz 

The good oil 

Body oils don’t come much more beautiful – or efficacious 

– than new New Zealand skincare company Embodyme’s 

Nurturing Body Oils ($120). In four fragrance blends 

designed to serve as a reminder to slow down, connect 

with yourself, appreciate your body, stimulate the senses 

and nurture the mind – Courage, Joy, Peace, Kindness – the 

carefully curated formulas feature nature’s finest plant-based 

oils grown and processed in New Zealand, including golden 

hemp, avocado, flaxseed, grapeseed and walnut oil. Founded 

by Sarah Reid, a health coach and wellness advocate with 

an extensive career in luxury beauty working with brands 

such as Bulgari, L’Oréal, Kérastase and Lancôme, Sarah 

was inspired by her own personal wellbeing journey to 

create a brand that’s about more than just skincare. Rich in 

antioxidants, vitamins and omegas, the beautifully bottled 

oils are anti-inflammatory and deeply nourishing. 

embodymedaily.com 

Eat your art out 

Popular pop-up restaurant Lil Red is back – this time 

for good – at QT Queenstown, just in time to fuel 

visitors to the hotel’s new art gallery. Level six of the 

award-winning lakeside hotel hosts the two tasty 

sites, with Lil Red’s menu promising a blend of New 

Zealand ingredients and traditional Japanese techniques 

served in an intimate, quirky setting, and Gallery 6’s 

inaugural exhibition of Lyttelton-based artist Alexandra 

Weston’s kaleidoscopic canvases providing colour to 

a 12-metre-long dedicated art space. The Double Up 

exhibition runs until March 2024. 

qthotels.com

WORKING TOGETHER: 

THE 

Adavantage 

INTER-GENERATIONAL 

The benefits and challenges of 

working and thriving in an intergenerational 

workplace are becoming 

a lot more common and our business, 

like many others, has a culture that 

tries to embrace much of this. 

When I was younger (a lot younger!) 

working inter-generationally consisted 

of student nursing whilst trying to 

keep out of the way of some pretty 

determined senior charge nurses. 

I say ‘determined’ but at the time I 

probably thought ‘scary’, and you 

survived by working hard, keeping your 

head down and not really having an 

opinion if, in fact, you were ever asked 

for one. 

That was the ‘80s, centuries ago, and 

today an inter-generational workplace 

represents so much more. 

There are numerous variables at play. 

Work habits, expectations and 

communication styles: from actually 

talking face-to-face – which can be rare 

– to the complete reverse, including 

texting, WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger, 

Instagram, Facebook, email and TikTok 

responses that you forget to even look 

for! 

Then there are the questions of how you 

like to be addressed in a gender diverse 

world. You can be addressed as she, her, 

hers, they, them, theirs, he, him or his. 

There are environmental requirements, 

dress code differences, not to forget 

prevalent piercings and tattoos, as well 

as phone and social media habits. 

It’s a different world and, to be fair, it can 

be a minefield. But at its most workable 

I’ve found it uplifting, educational and 

fun, and, more than that, it can make for 

a more engaged and successful team. 

All the differences between generations 

can become strengths when collaborating. 

Now let’s do a quick overview of the 

generations themselves. 

There’s the ‘Silent Generation’, folk born 

no later than 1945 and up until three 

years ago we had one such person. 

A fantastic man; a gentleman who 

represented our company and our 

country as a double Olympian and he 

still regularly visits our offices helping 

with general tasks. Age never got in the 

way of his ability to support or care for 

others and I’m beyond grateful to Mark 

Brownlee and his wife Trish for their 

time with us. 

Next, the ‘Baby Boomers’ born between 

1945 and 1960-‘65, depending on the 

literature you consult. In fact, in doing 

this research I discovered there are two 

groups of Boomers and I fall into the 

later of those. 

Determined and driven, we have a strong 

cohort of this group in our company, in 

our leadership and management teams. 

The third generation is ‘Generation X’ 

and characteristics attributed to this 

group are independence, diversity, 

work life balance, technology and an 

entrepreneurial spirit. 

When I think of this group, born between 

1965 – 1980, I’m grateful to some of the 

most incredible people I’ve ever had the 

opportunity to work with, including my 

business partner and friend Cameron 

Bailey. 

I’ve also experienced the benefits of this 

group’s enquiring natures, big hearts 

and desire to make something special 

of their world whilst trying for balance in 

their own lives. 

Along with the Baby Boomers, they have 

become excellent mentors to younger 

members of our company. 

The fourth generation, known as 

‘Generation Y’ or ‘Millennials’ is also 

coming through strongly. 

They are well represented in our team 

of consultants, administrators and 

marketing, video and design creatives. 

All of them have the skills to travel 

further in anything they choose, utilizing 

their skill set of ambition, confidence 

and flexibility. 

They question everything and constantly 

look for new challenges. 

That’s our company. 

It’s a melting pot of ages, languages, 

capacities and belief systems. 

It’s dynamic and diverse, and I 

appreciate being a part of it. 

It’s true some would find it wearying, too 

much to have to think about, too many 

agendas, ages and belief systems, but 

when it all comes together it’s magic. 

Lynette McFadden 

Harcourts gold Business Owner 

027 432 0447 

lynette.mcfadden@harcourtsgold.co.nz 

PAPANUI 352 6166 | INTERNATIONAL DIVISION (+64) 3 662 9811 | REDWOOD 352 0352 | PARKLANDS 383 0406 | 

SPITFIRE SQUARE 662 9222 | STROWAN 351 0585 | GOLD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 352 6454 | 

SPITFIRE SQUARE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 027 772 1188 

GOLD REAL ESTATE GROUP LTD LICENSED AGENT REAA 2008 A MEMBER OF THE HARCOURTS GROUP 

www.harcourtsgold.co.nz


Shaken not stirred 

Cocktails in seconds, with no equipment 

required? Don’t mind if we do. For 

those of us not blessed with a home bar, 

Kiwi company Batched’s premium premade 

cocktails – just shake and pour 

– are the answer to our spirited prayers. 

And the local libation experts are adding 

to their already stellar drinks trolley, 

which includes Espresso Martini, Gin 

Sour, Grapefruit Margarita and Whiskey 

Sour, with the release of the Passionfruit 

Martini. With a hint of vanilla, the small 

batch, naturally flavoured vodka and 

passionfruit cocktail is a complete treat 

on its own, or serve accompanied by a 

shot of sparkling wine and you’ve got a 

camera-ready ‘Pornstar Martini’ on hand 

to impress your friends or followers. 

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Burn time 

Spring is nearly here and what better 

way to welcome in the promise 

of new growth than with a cute, 

chromatically aligned selection of 

incense that has been sealed with a 

mantra appropriate to the season. Sala 

Energy is a selection of four incense 

concepts from Auckland fitness and 

wellbeing champions Sala, channelling 

the immersive sensory quality of 

the yoga studio not with sweat but 

with smoke. Spring’s scent sensation 

includes notes of grapefruit and 

cedarwood, lavender and ylang-ylang, 

musk and vanilla, and the mantra that 

accompanied its creation is ‘New and 

exciting opportunities are ahead of 

me’. Made from sustainably sourced 

woods and natural essential oils, each 

seasonal box of 30 sticks is intended 

to amplify the potent power of a 

select time of year. 

sala.studio 

Wear your heart on your sleeve 

By providing training and fair employment 

to more than 80 Cambodian garment 

workers, Aotearoa fashion label ReCreate 

Clothing has been a catalyst for positive 

change in the fashion industry since 2013. 

The versatile Boxy shirt in Blush is an 

instant wardrobe staple from ReCreate’s 

Spring/Summer 2023 collection (designed 

by Clyde-based Marielle van de Ven), 

which features soft natural tones alongside 

fresh tropical hues and elevated basic 

pieces ethically and sustainably produced 

throughout the entire supply chain. 

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Fraction too much friction 

“Tim Finn is a living legend in New Zealand music. I myself have been his 

number one fan for more than forty years. He doesn’t look old enough, but 

it’s true,” says another local legend, Sam Neill. Be like Sam and fall in love with 

Finn at Christchurch Town Hall on September 20, as part of a rare threedate 

tour supported by Ōtautahi’s own Flip Grater. ‘The Lives and Times of 

Tim Finn’ concert tour will encompass the creative catalogue of the Split Enz 

founder and member of Crowded House who is also a long-time formidable 

international solo songwriting and performing artist and, of late, a composer 

and lyricist for opera and musical theatre. With a full band and a full songbook, 

don’t miss the return of one of our musical greats. Book at ticketek.co.nz

MMARY 

TURNBULL 

“I've loved opening 

the door to so many 

incredible houses in 

Christchurch.” 

TOP 20 

Harcourts NZ 2022 - 2023 

730 MILLION 

In excess of 

in settled sales 

“It's always an 

absolute pleasure 

working on behalf 

of my owners and I 

know they've derived 

great benefits from 

my wisdom and 

expertise.” 

If you want to talk 

about your property 

and how I can help 

contact me today! 

‘‘ 

All of this wouldn’t have been possible without the enduring and 

world-class support of Polly and John McFadden, and Chris Kennedy. 

I love being a part of the gold legacy. - Mary 

‘‘ 

03 352 6166 or 027 525 2959 

mary.turnbull@harcourtsgold.co.nz 

LICENSED SALES CONSULTANT REAA 2008


Top tables 

Christchurch-based design co Ico Traders, born from a 

literal life shake-up post-quakes, continues to deliver stylish, 

environmentally mindful furniture and homewares with 

the recent release of a side table co-created with The Arc 

Department. Set on a base made by Ico Traders with a bespoke 

resin top poured by Sally at Arc, each Montalto Arc side table is 

a uniquely patterned piece, handmade in considered colourways 

of Black, Toffee and White. The chic collab is available online or 

from stockists across the country. 

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Future fashion 

Available exclusively (for now) at top international online 

fashion retailer Mr Porter, collectible new Kiwi menswear 

brand MANAAKI makes clothing designed to be cherished 

and passed down, with 90 percent of the products made 

using natural fibres that will biodegrade. Designer Kat Tua 

(Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Raukawa) was hand-selected from more 

than 1000 applications around the world to be part of the 

Mr Porter Futures programme and her resulting creations 

nod to inspirations including Bob Marley and the Polynesian 

Panthers. Effortlessly cool clothes that bridge a gap between 

traditional Māori clothing and contemporary daywear, 

MANAAKI’s collections feature colourful knits, hand-drawn 

taniwha and maunga prints and ’70s inspired streetwear. 

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Worm juice 

Omihi, North Canterbury, is home to the three vineyard 

locations that make up Black Estate, producers of fine organic 

and biodynamic vintages. With their natural approach to wine 

production, it’s no surprise that the winemakers also practice 

regenerative and organic farming, applying their minimalinterference 

ethos to crop and soil maintenance, avoiding the 

use of systemic sprays or chemicals at their farm sites. Now 

you can bring some Black Estate to your own backyard, with 

the release of a special drop – Worm Juice Elixir. Produced 

from mainly organic scraps from the restaurant kitchen fed to 

eight Hungry Bin worm farms, beneficial microbes in the super 

juice (not for human consumption!) will improve soil structure, 

increase water holding capacity and promote healthy, productive 

plants and gardens. During summer, each of the bins can process 

2kg of kitchen scraps a day, so the estate is bottling what they 

don’t need on-site for home use – and if you buy six bottles of 

wine they’ll even throw in a bottle of Worm Juice for free. 

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Rangi Ruru deliver educational and co-curricular programmes 

designed specifically for the way girls learn, meaning they not only 

achieve to a higher level, but feel comfortable in doing so. 

Find out more at rangiruru.school.nz


A little pic-me-up 

Eagle-eyed snack fans will spot a welcome new 

addition to supermarket shelves this month, with 

the ultimate treat hook-up happening between 

Nelson’s nut-butter pros Pic’s and snack experts 

Tom & Luke. The much-loved, natural Snackaballs 

range is rolling out a new flavour, infused with Pic’s 

Peanut Butter and dipped in a peanut-laden dark 

chocolate. Perfectly aimed for when those late 

arvo sweet cravings hit, Tom & Luke x Pic’s Peanut 

Butter Snackaballs are plant-based, gluten and 

palm oil-free, and made in New Zealand. 

tomandluke.com 

More than skin deep 

Kester Black, renowned for its ethical approach to the products 

we use on our nails and lips, has expanded into equally luscious 

and caring skincare products. With the same dedication to 

clean ingredients and eco-friendly, aesthetically appealing 

packaging, the new cosmeceutical line promises to rejuvenate 

and nourish skin using mostly naturally derived ingredients and 

clinically proven actives. The first drop consists of three moodboosting 

essentials: the Overachiever Balm Cleanser, Caretaker 

Vitamin E Serum and Skin Drench Moisturiser, with more 

cruelty-free skincare components to come. 

nz.kesterblack.com 

Essential reading 

Two brilliant new anthologies published by Penguin Random House showcase work 

from contemporary Māori writers celebrating and challenging the power of the 

written word. Te Awa o Kupu, edited by Vaughan Rapatahana, is a stunning collection 

of poetry and short stories from over 80 authors exploring compassion, concern, 

curiosity, suffering and joy. Its companion collection, Ngā Kupu Wero, focuses on recent 

non-fiction – essays, articles, commentary and creative non-fiction on the political, 

cultural and social issues that define modern Aotearoa. Curated by author Witi 

Ihimaera, more than 60 writers examine ideas that challenge us: from colonisation to 

identity, creativity to mātauranga Māori. Together these two passionate volumes of 

work represent a river of words flowing from some of our brightest literary lights. 

penguin.co.nz 

Hop to it 

Ōtautahi and Ōtepoti, get ready for dream-pop luminaries French for 

Rabbits who are bringing their exquisitely crafted, haunting tunes to town 

accompanied onstage by The Black Quartet as part of the Chamber Music 

NZ concert series. For these exclusive performances, the band present new 

songs from their upcoming EP In the End I Won’t Be Coming Home alongside 

back-catalogue favourites, augmented by string arrangements adding orchestral 

flair to the minimalist, shimmering guitar lines and instrumentation the group 

is known for. Catch the 2022 Taite Music Prize finalists in Christchurch at The 

Piano on September 8 and Dunedin’s Glenroy Auditorium September 16. 

chambermusic.co.nz/french-for-rabbits


Group outing! 

Feeling social? Join Christchurch social enterprise Group 1 for its 

first event of the season, to be held September 16 at Riccarton 

Park Racecourse. “Over the past five years, we’ve had hundreds 

of people come and enjoy a great day out including a drink on 

arrival, catered food throughout the day, live music and of course 

an easy view of the race track, as well as the fabulous bestdressed 

and spot prizes,” says Group 1’s Rachael Sievers. Rachael 

says September’s spring racing event, for which they’re expecting 

more than 150 guests, is the most exciting yet, with top musical 

talent from Australia, exceptional styling by a local designer to 

glam up the Group 1 space, and an afterparty at Mr Brightside 

rooftop bar. 

facebook.com/Group1NZ 

Up the (brow) bar 

Just in time to celebrate 15 big years in the beauty 

maintenance biz, OFF & ON has launched a brand 

new concept – Colour Bar – designed to elevate 

the art of brow personalisation to new heights. 

The Colour Bar will see OFF & ON’s highly skilled 

brow artists utilise an increasingly diverse range of 

colour combinations (more than 135 and counting) 

and a three-pronged approach to techniques (The 

Tint, The Stain and The Henna), enabling them 

to seamlessly tailor to each individual’s distinct 

preferences and requirements. The brow artists 

will collaborate closely with clients to achieve the 

ultimate brow shade that harmonises with their 

features as well as answer their brow concerns. 

offandon.co.nz 

A whole new world 

Our favourite local sustainable clothing 

label Untouched World has come up 

with the goods yet again this season 

with the newly released knit collection 

EcoTree, a dreamy (exclusive to UW) 

fusion of superfine tencel made using 

eucalyptus, New Zealand merino 

and fine ecopossum. Deliciously soft, 

lightweight (so perfect for layering or 

alone) and cleverly adaptable to be 

either cool or cosy as required, choose 

from a capsule edit of pieces including 

a pleated midi skirt, funnel-neck top 

and knit tee in a versatile Pumice hue. 

untouchedworld.com

Spring weather calls for Dubarry deck shoes! 

Super comfortable and made to last, these shoes will be your 

trusty go-to for years to come. 

623 Lineside Road | 03 313 1674 | www.rangiorasaddlery.co.nz

22 Magazine | Wishlist 

Most wanted 

From gorgeous green-hued goodies and heavenly garden-themed scents to cosy robes, cool 

Kiwi-designed tees and luxe leather kicks, here’s what the 03 team are coveting this month. 

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Windfall 

1. Jim Thompson Apollon cushion, $645 at Trenzseater; 2. Città Halo ceramic serving bowl in Fennel, $139; 3. La Tribe Fisherman mules, $330; 

4. Ashley & Co Washup All-Over body wash in Tui & Kahili – Father’s Day Edition, $40; 5. BAINA Sulis bathrobe in Tabac & Noir, $275; 

6. MANAAKI The Simple Life t-shirt, $144 at Mr Porter; 7. Byredo Liquid Lipstick Vinyl in Liquid Pride, $87 at Mecca; 

8. Te Awa o Kupu anthology, edited by Vaughan Rapatahana and Kiri Piahana-Wong, $37; 

9. Jo Malone London Wild Berry & Bramble Townhouse candle, $245 at Ballantynes; 

10. Penelope Chilvers Cropped Tassel boots, $679 at Rangiora Equestrian Supplies; 11. Kate Sylvester Thin Twist freshwater pearl necklace, $389; 

12. Deadly Ponies Mr Cinch Mini in Jellybean Python, $679; 13. Mingk mesh hoop earrings, $77 at Zebrano; 

14. Caitlin Crisp Diana dress in Liquorice Spot, $575

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24 Magazine | Fashion 

Flower power 

Bloom into a blossoming spring style mood with the 

new season’s most fun and fabulous florals. 

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1. Moochi Patio dress in Black/Pink Paisley, $390; 2. Karen Walker Buckingham dress in Jewel Multi, $745; 3. Kate Sylvester Sakura dress in Teal, $799; 

4. Twenty-Seven Names We Found Love blouse, $390; 5. Mi Piaci Duchess slingbacks in Retro Floral, $260; 

6. Juliette Hogan Daisy blouse in Primrose, $399; 7. Trelise Cooper Floral Fibre dress, $899 at Ballantynes; 8. Shjark Baildin shirt, $449, and East pants, $429; 

9. MW by Kathryn Wilson Lisa sneakers, $319; 10. Helen Cherry Gaby blouse, $649; 

11. Loobies Story Wool Craft dress, $479 at Zebrano; 12. Merchant 1948 Dolce pumps in Romantic Floral, $250

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26 Magazine | Beauty 

About face 

From cult Parisian makeup and miracle pimple patches to Hollywood-worthy hair and 

skin-loving foundations, here’s what the 03 team are trying this month. 

1. Ooh la la 

Cult beauty fanatics will be 

très excité at the arrival in 

New Zealand of Violette_FR, 

the much-coveted collection 

founded in 2021 by French 

makeup artist Violette Serrat 

with the mission of celebrating 

individuality and self-expression. 

From the end of August, Mecca 

NZ will be stocking a curated 

Violette_FR edit featuring nine 

innovative products spanning 

six categories, including 

fragrance, hair, lip, eyes 

(pictured: Yeux Paint in Bleu de 

Minuit, $56), complexion and 

skin. With quality and creativity 

at the forefront, each product 

is meticulously created to 

complete, not to compete with 

other brands. 

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2. Spot on 

New from Dermalogica 

is Deep Breakout 

Liquid Patch ($69), a 

near-magical little tube 

created to tackle those 

tricky-to-treat deep cystic 

blemishes. This potent 

sulphur-based treatment 

goes on clear and dries 

invisible, so you can use 

it anytime, anywhere – 

even over makeup. The 

skin-mimicking film forms 

a semipermeable patch 

that allows airflow while 

protecting skin from 

pollution and irritants, 

while the inclusion of 

4 percent niacinamide 

helps soothe skin and 

fade post-breakout marks. 

5. Pump up the volume 

Extending their much-loved 

Rechargeable Salon Pro range, 

Lady Jayne has launched its Salon 

Pro Rechargeable Volumising 

Hot Brush ($120) for on-the-go 

oomph without the major price 

tag. Handbag/travel friendly, this 

sleek little number is designed with 

an even-heated barrel and unique 

bristles to ensure hair is perfectly 

styled from root to tip. Promising 

an 80 percent increase in volume 

after initial use and 74 percent 

volume retention even eight hours 

after use, it comes with USB 

rechargeable functionality. 

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4. Got the power 

The radiant new counterpart to MAC’s cult classic Studio Fix Fluid SPF15, Studio Radiance 

Serum-Powered Foundation ($82), is powered by an 80 percent skincare base featuring a 

punchy cocktail of 33 skin-loving ingredients including a 10 percent hyaluronic acid solution. With 

a lightweight, cushiony gel texture designed for buildable and customisable colour that instantly 

evens out the complexion and blurs the appearance of pores, redness, dark spots and dry fine 

lines, the foundation is available in 56 shades and offers up to 12 hours of longwearing glow. 

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Get Gwyneth Paltrow 

hair at home with 

newly released 

GOOPGLOW Amino 

Acid Shinebath Shampoo 

($58 at Mecca). This 

sandalwood- and 

frankincense-scented 

cushiony gel shampoo 

foams into a luxe 

lather that promises 

to both cleanse and 

hydrate. A powerful 

blend of 11 amino 

acids works to improve 

lustre and shine, while 

nourishing botanicals and 

hydrolysed pea protein 

moisturise, condition, 

detangle and smooth.

PEGASUS HEALTH HONOURED WITH COVID-19 

RESPONSE RECOGNITION AWARD 

A TALE OF RESILIENCE, ADAPTABILITY, AND COMMUNITY UNITY 

Pegasus Health is proud to announce that they 

have been honoured with the COVID-19 Response 

Recognition Award in recognition of their attitude 

and commitment to the community during the 

height of the pandemic. This prestigious award 

highlights the exceptional work done by general 

practice teams and their hard work and unwavering 

dedication to serving the community. 

Lisa Brennan, General Manager Patient and Provider 

Services, eloquently summed up the COVID-19 

journey with the analogy: “Health is like flying a 

plane while you’re trying to build it.” This quote 

encapsulates the challenges faced during the 

pandemic and emphasizes the constant process of 

adapting and shaping the response to the everchanging 

circumstances. 

During this unprecedented time, Pegasus 

established community testing centers, beginning 

with Orchard Road and subsequently expanding 

to various locations across the city, including 

Ashburton. Their commitment to serving the 

community didn’t stop there – they also turned their 

attention to vaccination efforts to ensure the health 

and wellbeing of the community. 

This esteemed award recognizes the efforts 

made by every individual in the Pegasus whānau. 

From our patient-facing teams in general 

practice and the 24 Hour Surgery, who displayed 

remarkable resilience and adaptability, to the 

dedicated individuals working behind the scenes, 

who seamlessly transitioned to a new virtual 

environment, enabling the continued delivery of 

essential healthcare services. 

The challenges posed by COVID-19 brought our 

team closer together, fostering a spirit of unity and 

collaboration. This spirit continues to thrive and 

shape the future of Pegasus. We are immensely 

proud of the outstanding work done by our 

general practice teams, and this award serves as a 

testament to their commitment to the community. 

Together, as we navigate the path forward, 

we remain dedicated to providing exceptional 

healthcare services and supporting the wellbeing of 

our community.

What’s for smoko? 

Based on a North Otago sheep and beef farm, Philippa Cameron is sharing 

her unique brand of high country home cooking with the world via social media – and now 

a deliciously charming new cookbook. 

WORDS JULIET SPEEDY | PHOTOS LOTTIE HEDLEY

Feature | Magazine 29 

“You see it at farms across the country; entrepreneurial women with great 

business acumen and an unmatched work ethic, doing it all.” 

Philippa Cameron is already well known to many in New 

Zealand. She’s a farmer and a great home cook, who one 

day hopped on Instagram to get some culinary inspiration, 

and five years later has a fledgling career, burgeoning side 

businesses, and now two stunning cookbooks to her name. 

“That part is a bit surreal,” she says. “Sometimes I make tea 

and the kids won’t eat it, and I’m like c’mon!” Philippa giggles 

when I call her up on a chilly Sunday winter’s morning to talk 

about, among other things, her latest book. 

Philippa lives and works on a high country sheep and beef 

farm in Otematata, North Otago, with her husband and 

two girls, Flora and Evelyn. The pragmatic, lovely mainlander 

started out in the public arena as the high country station’s 

cook but she now has many other strings to her bow. She 

has morphed into a shrewd businesswoman who flies around 

the country as a coveted speaker while launching several side 

hustles from the farm. 

Her latest book has the inviting title Winter Warmers and 

any South Islander will immediately relate to the cover of 

Philippa clutching a thermos while standing in a wide, flat, 

snow covered landscape. 

The book has, among many other things, a focus on one 

of her favourite appliances, the magic pot (multicooker). 

Which, in reality, is a good metaphor for the book itself which 

is like its own magic pot. In it swirls hearty home-cooked 

recipes, great anecdotes from life on a high country farm, 

fascinating stories from past farm staff and family, alongside 

stunning photos. 

After her first book was published many people who had 

worked on the vast station over the years started getting 

in touch. 

“I got cards and phone calls and handwritten letters from 

gorgeous old men with beautiful handwriting. The respect 

for the Cameron family was huge and I thought, well maybe I 

could chat to these people.” And so she did. 

Philippa became the station cook rather quickly after her 

mother-in-law sadly passed away. 

“I actually started my Instagram because I’d run out of 

things to cook.” 

She found the growth of things after that to be 

unexpected. Now that her simple but clever home cooking 

has turned her into an author, she’s had to learn how to 

properly write her recipes down and make sure they work, 

which is a different skill. 

“I even still struggle with that actually.” 

She would sometimes say things like ‘add in enough water 

to form a dough’. 

“But people would say, yeah but how much?! And I was 

like, I don’t know, just a dribble at a time!” 

Her life has gone from busy to far busier. 

“It is a wee bit mad and it is a wee bit too much some 

days,” she laughs. But it’s created an opportunity for her and 

the family. Pip and her husband don’t own the farm they 

live and work on, so other streams of income have opened 

up opportunities. 

“It’s brought in an extra income that we’d never have 

actually thought about, so I’ve made it into a little business. 

We can then use the money on the family for skiing or 

whatever, which has actually been a game changer.” 

Her life is somewhat indicative of many working women 

on farms in the modern age. While still serving the traditional 

women’s roles on-farm like cooking for the family and staff, as 

well as primary carer of the home and children and helping 

on the land, many are also finding other streams of income. 

You see it at farms across the country; entrepreneurial 

women with great business acumen and an unmatched work 

ethic, doing it all. 

“I think people have a perception of the ’90s when the 

stock market crash had finished and prices were great and 

farmers were these wealthy people with holiday homes and 

flash cars, but that doesn’t exist any longer.” 

Philippa points out that’s why many partners/wives have 

gone out and diversified. 

“There was always a perception that a woman on-farm 

was a great shopper and always wore the best of the best, 

that doesn’t exist any longer actually, not in sheep and beef 

anyway,” she chuckles. 

She’s also a big believer that there’s a time and a place for 

creating more work for yourself. 

“Don’t try and do it when you’ve got preschool children at 

home because they deserve your attention, and we’re in such 

a great environment to offer our kids a great childhood that if 

you’re trying to get a business off the ground at that time, it’s 

not going to benefit anyone.” 

But those days are now behind Pip, who is pressing 

forward and busier than ever. She’s recently launched a 

natural wool company using merino from a flock of black 

merino sheep they own. She’s also selling a Danish dough 

whisk after getting many queries about one of her favourite 

appliances through her social media.

“Now because everyone knows my name, it’s easy to have 

a couple of wee things on the side. That’s where I see the 

business going at the moment.” 

The wonderful thing about Philippa’s recipes in this book 

is many are traditional, basic recipes our grandmothers 

cooked without the need for some modern twist or random 

unnecessary ingredient. They are thoroughly tested, hearty, 

basic but delicious winter warmers, both sweet and savoury. 

It’s just damn good fare that most families will enjoy. Think 

pork sausages, with onion and apple gravy, eighties curried 

mince or shepherd’s pie. Also a delicious cauliflower cheese, 

the ‘best-ever’ pikelet recipe and plenty of delicious baking like 

coffee cakes and lemon loaves. 

Pip thought it would be hard coming up with so many 

recipes for the new book but she gets inspiration from all 

over the place, including her and her husband’s grandmothers’ 

original recipe books and new-found friends on Instagram. 

She also gets advice from fellow farmers that are cooking high 

volume meals on the farm. 

“I cook for anywhere between six and 10 people each day 

and so the quantities are huge. And in winter they eat more 

while out in the hills so a lot of the food is gone at the end of 

the day.” 

She knows the appeal of her cooking is because it’s easy 

and homely and in her words, “is never pretty”. 

Philippa sees how home cooking took a bit of a turn at one 

point with the rise of shows like MasterChef and, as a result, 

people were putting more pressure on themselves to make 

restaurant quality dishes at home. 

“I think people forgot that meals and cooking at home were 

to be enjoyed for the company, the love and the banter that 

goes on.” 

Her recipes use ingredients that most will already have in 

the cupboard. 

“I think simple cooking can be the best cooking.” 

Winter Warmers also offers lots of tips and tricks for 

food waste, good ways to use cheap cuts of meat and 

utilise leftovers. 

“At the beginning of the book there’s a little food map 

and so if you’ve made a big pot of mashed potatoes and 

have some left over, it has three recipes you can use for the 

leftover mashed spud.” 

Her favourite dish in this cookbook is her cauliflower 

cheese. 

“The pot roast is popular. And the homemade pastry. 

Everyone is scared of making their own but it’s so easy!”


“She knows the 

appeal of her 

cooking is because 

it’s easy and homely 

and in her words, ‘is 

never pretty’.” 

And her curried mince is inspired by one of her Kiwi Insta 

friends who lives in Australia and works in the live animal 

export trade. 

“She’s a big advocate for the stock’s wellbeing, she 

shows people behind the scenes, and that it’s not as bad as 

everyone thinks.” 

When this woman isn’t on the live export boats, she’s 

cooking for farm staff, and she once reached out to Philippa 

from a station in Northern Queensland where she was 

making a big pot of eighties curried mince. 

“She contacted me and said ‘I have cried so much today, 

the smell reminds me so much of my mum’. Her mum has 

Alzheimer’s disease. She said ‘I remember my dad and all his 

workmates sitting down after mum had been cooking away 

all day’.” 

Philippa also says the photography is a huge part of the 

appeal of the book and she’s at pains to point out the talent 

and warmth of the photographer, Lottie Hedley. Pip says 

she is an inspiring and incredibly talented photographer to 

work with. 

“We really work well together and I think part of the 

reason the book is such a success is because of the gorgeous 

photographs. People will find something in this book they love 

whether it’s the stories, the recipes or the photographs.” 

Lottie is Raglan-based but Philippa remembers suggesting 

she come down to photograph the autumn muster. 

“You know, to get some good shots of cooking on a coal 

range and the boys, the hills, the romance. She arrived and 

I said, ‘So, we’re going out here, there’s no cell reception, 

there’s no toilet and we won’t be back for five days’ and she 

took it like a bloody champ and said, ‘yep let’s go!’” 

Philippa feels proud of what she’s achieved and she’s 

thoroughly enjoying it. 

“If it’s able to bring a positive light to farming then that’s 

pretty cool. And if it’s helping bring people in a similar 

situation to me to be successful, then that’s also really good.”

Recipe | Magazine 33 

CHEESE SCONES 

These scones are an adaptation of a recipe from my late neighbour, who we lived close to when I 

was growing up in a little town called Herbert. We affectionately called her Aunty Betty, and her husband, 

Uncle Ross, had the best lolly cupboard in town, which sat near the feet of his La-Z-Boy chair. 

Aunty Betty was known for many things, but most of all her cheese puffs. They were her signature dish 

at any function that required a plate, and the recipe was even inscribed on her service sheet when she 

passed away. I loved this idea. Still sharing her best plate even on her way out. 

Makes 9–12 

2 cups self-raising flour 

2 cups grated cheese 

Pinch of salt 

1 egg 

Cold water 

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan-bake and prepare an oven tray. 

Place the self-raising flour in a medium-sized bowl. Set aside a small 

handful of the grated cheese, then add the remaining cheese and the 

salt to the flour. 

Break the egg into a measuring cup and fill to the 250ml mark with 

cold water. Use a fork to gently whisk together. 

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Use a dough whisk 

or knife to bring the ingredients together to form a ball of dough (if 

your dough is looking a little sticky, don’t worry). 

Sprinkle flour over a clean surface and tip the dough onto it. Roll 

the ball around until it is soft to touch but no longer sticky. Use your 

hands to gently apply pressure and pat out a square shape about 3cm 

thick. Use a sharp knife to cut into 9 large scones (3 x 3 grid) or 12 

smaller scones (4 x 3 grid). 

Place scones close together on the tray, leaving a gap no more than 1cm 

(½ in). Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. 

Bake for 15–20 minutes until golden. 

TIPS AND TRICKS 

• If you don’t have self-raising flour, use 1½ teaspoons of baking 

powder for every cup of flour (so 3 teaspoons of baking powder 

for this recipe). 

• Choose a cheese with plenty of flavour like Colby or Tasty, or just 

use whatever is in the fridge. You don’t have to be too fussy. 

• Adding a tablespoon of finely chopped rosemary is extra delicious. 

• If you are using a 250ml (9 fl oz) measuring cup to mix the egg and 

water, hold it above the bowl to avoid a mess. It won’t matter if it 

splashes over into the bowl. 

• Did you know that the closer together you put scones on the tray, 

the higher they will rise?

34 Magazine | Recipe 

EIGHTIES CURRIED MINCE 

Joe and I are children of the ’80s, and our mothers would have known versions of this recipe off 

by heart during the tough years of young families and high mortgages. It truly is a cost-effective meal. 

But, let’s be honest – there’s nothing better than a good old mince dish. 

It’s delicious and filling. And the kids love it! 

Serves 4–6 

Dollop of butter 

2 onions, finely chopped or grated 

500g beef or venison mince 

2 cloves garlic, crushed 

1 teaspoon salt 

½ teaspoon white pepper 

2 teaspoons curry powder 

¼ cup uncooked rice 

2½ cups chicken stock 

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 

1 tablespoon soy sauce 

2 cups thinly sliced cabbage 

Handful of sultanas (optional) 

Add the butter to a pot on a high heat and sauté the 

onion until soft and fragrant. Add the mince and 

brown. Tip off any excess liquid. 

Turn the heat down to medium. Stir through the garlic, 

salt, pepper and curry powder. Add the rice, stock, 

Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, cabbage and sultanas 

(if using). Combine all of the ingredients and cook for 

30 minutes, stirring often to avoid the rice sticking to 

the bottom of the pot. 

TIPS AND TRICKS 

• Use just 1 teaspoon of curry powder for young 

families not used to the warm spice. 

• In place of the cabbage, use whatever is green and 

leafy in your vege garden or vege drawer. 

• The use of sultanas is controversial. The answer is 

simple: use them if you like them; leave them out if 

you don’t. 

• Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the 

fridge for up to 2 days.

36 Magazine | Recipe 

WHISKY CAKE 

The Cameron men have all enjoyed 

a good whisky over the years. Joe’s 

grandmother Mary used to make this 

rich cake, and now every year for 

Joe’s birthday it’s become a tradition 

to serve this up. I do joke with him 

that it is the most high maintenance 

cake that I make, but the extra 

washing up is long forgotten when 

you take your first mouthful. Best 

not serve this one to the kids. 

Serves 8–12 

½ cup raisins 

125ml whisky 

200g good-quality chocolate 

3 eggs 

Pinch of salt 

140g sugar 

70g flour 

70g ground almonds 

Combine the raisins and whisky and 

set aside to soak for a few hours. Once 

you feel your raisins are drunk enough, 

prepare the rest of the cake. 

Preheat the oven to 190°C fan-bake. 

Prepare a 20cm round tin. 

Break the chocolate into small pieces 

and place in a medium-sized heatproof 

bowl over a pot of boiling water to melt. 

Keep an eye on it and give it a stir every 

now and then until melted. 

As the chocolate begins to soften, 

separate the eggs. Place the whites in the 

cake mixer bowl with the salt, and place 

the yolks in a small bowl. Use the whisk 

attachment to beat the egg whites and 

salt until stiff peaks begin to form. 

While the egg whites are beating, add the sugar to the egg yolks and 

beat with a fork. 

Once the chocolate has melted, add the egg-yolk mixture in small 

batches until well combined. Add the whisky-soaked raisins with any 

leftover liquid. Sift in the flour and ground almonds. Fold in the egg 

whites and gently combine the mixture. Pour into the prepared tin. 

Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool 

before serving. 

Extracted from Winter Warmers: Recipes and stories from 

a New Zealand high country station by Philippa Cameron. 

Photography by Lottie Hedley. RRP$50. 

Published by Allen & Unwin NZ.

Promotion | Magazine 37 

WOMEN’S EXPO IS BACK! 

The Christchurch Women’s Lifestyle Expo will bring together 180 of the 

best lifestyle companies under one roof on October 7 and 8. 

The expo will have something for everyone’s taste. Whether 

you’re looking for the perfect gift for a friend or family 

member with the unique range of artisan goods and giftware, 

after a bit of pampering for yourself, or need to stock up on 

your eco-friendly essentials, you can be sure you’ll find what you 

need. It’s the perfect opportunity for a girls’ day out, or to treat 

yourself to a day leisurely wandering between exhibitors. 

“It’s been incredible seeing our communities coming together 

to support local,” says NZME event director Renee Murray. 

“We’re so pleased to be able to provide an opportunity for 

Kiwi businesses and local Christchurch companies to connect 

with thousands of women. We have some incredible companies 

exhibiting this year, from young entrepreneurs to larger, wellknown 

brands.” 

The always popular Artisan Zone will include artisan 

crafters from all over New Zealand with unique products 

including soaps and organic beauty goods, jewellery, original 

art, home decor, clothing and more. 

Appreciating that shopping, pampering, trying and testing can 

be hard work, the Expo’s Taste Zone – a mini food show – will 

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Game, set, match to Gore 

Southland’s fashion capital has crowned a new queen for 2023 – Dunedin-based Molly Marsh, 

whose covetable designs were inspired by a tennis court in her hometown of Ettrick. 

WORDS JOSIE STEENHART


“Dressing up in my mum’s old tennis whites and pretending to be 

Serena Williams on our homemade grass court is a nostalgic memory that 

was the starting point for this collection’s inspiration.” 

Depending on your perspective, sensibilities and interests, 

the Southland town of Gore (population approx. 10,000) 

might be best known for trout-fishing, country music, a 

seriously great art museum (the Eastern Southland Gallery), 

moonshine, farming or – if you’re partial to a bit of fashion (or 

just a great night out) – the Hokonui Fashion Design Awards 

(HFDAs), which this August celebrated its 35th anniversary at 

a quickly sold-out Gore Town & Country Stadium. 

The longest-running fashion design awards of their type in 

New Zealand, since 1988 the Hokonuis, as they’re colloquially 

known, have attracted both high calibre entries and top 

industry judges (think James Dobson of Jimmy D, Karen 

Walker, Juliette Hogan, WORLD’s Francis Hooper, Trelise 

Cooper, Kate Sylvester, Liz Findlay of Zambesi, Doris de Pont 

and NOM*d’s Margi Robertson) from around the country. 

“[Winning was] totally unexpected and so super rewarding,” 

says this year’s overall winner, 20-year-old Dunedin-based 

Molly Marsh, whose collection of three tennis-inspired 

garments had this year’s judges calling game, set and match. 

“Molly’s entry stood out in so many ways,” says Liam 

Bowden of celebrated Kiwi leatherware label Deadly Ponies. 

“It was very well executed, the seaming and pleating in the 

dresses was very intricate. Her designs told a story and had a 

strong sense of identity. Molly’s entry felt fresh and put a smile 

on our faces.” 

Of the event itself, Auckland-based Liam describes it as 

“such an amazing experience”. 

“The whole community rallies together to create something 

world-class. It’s heartwarming to see so many people 

volunteer their time for something like this, and there’s a lot of 

great talent coming through. 

“It was fun to get to know the other judges – I enjoyed the 

different design perspectives – and the gluttonous amount of 

cheese rolls we had.” 

Molly, who is in her final year at Otago Polytechnic’s 

acclaimed fashion design school, centred her entry around 

playful – yet technically talented – nods to the tennis court on 

her family’s property in the tiny Otago town of Ettrick. 

“[Ettrick] is the heart of Marsh’s Honey, a third generation 

family business my parents now operate,” she says. 

“I was the only girl in my year group for the majority of my 

time at Millers Flat Primary School, which had a total roll of 

30-ish pupils.” 

In 2016, she moved to Dunedin “for boarding school, 

where I attended St Hilda’s Collegiate School”. 

Staying on after high school (“I was lucky enough to be 

appointed head girl, which was a memorable and valuable 

experience”), Molly says “after living here for almost eight 

years, I’ve found it really special to reconnect, solidify and 

broaden my friendship circle”. 

“It helps that Dunedin is such a student-orientated city, as 

people come from all over New Zealand to study here.” 

The ambitious young designer works at Wānaka’s DEVáL 

Boutique “as one of the stylists there” during her semester 

breaks and also spent time interning at sought-after Aucklandbased 

label Maggie Marilyn. 

”I approached their team last year expressing that I wanted 

to gain work experience from a brand I absolutely adore and 

believe in,” she says of how the opportunity came about. 

“Helping with the day-to-day runnings of their workroom, 

being surrounded by like-minded, knowledgeable, passionate 

and down-to-earth people and feeling as though I was a part 

of their team was an experience I will never forget.” 

Of this year’s HFDA-winning designs, Molly says “dressing 

up in my mum’s old tennis whites and pretending to be 

Serena Williams on our homemade grass court is a nostalgic 

memory that was the starting point for this collection’s 

inspiration”. 

The ‘tennis whites’ – two tops, a maxi pencil skirt, wide-leg 

trousers, a mini tunic dress and sporty visor – were cut and 

tailored from cotton drill into covetable (and commercially 

friendly) designs, but it was perhaps the finishing touches, not 

to mention the statement coat, that elevated Molly’s entry to 

the top award. 

“The turf coat was quite literally made out of turf – a 

fabric the sewing machine was not familiar with,” she says with 

a laugh. 

The statement neon-yellow carryall that accompanied her 

garments was crafted from a giant tennis ball Molly found at 

a pet store (“it was the only place I could find to purchase 

one”), while a second, standard-sized ball can be found 

adorning the back of the coat. 

“The more you looked at her collection the more you 

saw the details in each piece,” judge Vicki Taylor of Taylor 

and The Shelter says of Molly’s entry, which took six months 

to complete. 

“Her construction was really outstanding, all those little 

tucks were incredibly even and the inserted tennis ball was 

well executed. The finishing point was her attention to the 

details – the shoes, hats and accessories all fitted seamlessly 

into the overall effectiveness of her design. Molly’s balance 

and design aesthetic were on point and the colours were 

consistent throughout, each piece could stand alone or 

work together.”

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Molly’s prize package, valued at more than $16,500, 

includes the chance to show her work at this year’s New 

Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland. 

“Yes, some of the designs from this year’s Hokonui Fashion 

Show will be exhibited as part of NZFW, which I am lucky 

enough to be showing at and attending myself,” she says. 

Beyond that, Molly, whose “ultimate dream” would be to 

have her own label, says her immediate plans are to return 

to Auckland later in the year, “for an internship with another 

gorgeous New Zealand designer, which I’m really looking 

forward to!” 

“In the mix of that, I’ll be finishing my graduate collection, 

which will be showcased at the Otago Polytech Graduate 

Collections Show in November. And that will be a nice 

wee challenge!” 

She describes the entry process for entering the HFDAs 

as easygoing, (“the OP fashion lecturers helped transport 

its students’ entries to Gore, which was super generous”), 

and says “the thrill of seeing your garments on a catwalk is a 

special experience for any designer.” 

Molly’s advice for anyone thinking about entering an award 

like the Hokonuis? 

“Knowing when to enhance a design but also knowing 

when to let it speak for itself is a hard thing to balance and 

understand, but is something to consider when entering.”

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42 Magazine | Community 

Coach calls on netball community 

Tactix and FAST5 Ferns head coach Marianne Delaney-Hoshek returned to Christchurch 

permanently in 2015 and she’s rapt to see the city back in form. We spoke to her about everything 

Ōtautahi ahead of the FAST5 Netball World Series tournament, which hits the city November 11–12. 

Why does Canterbury’s netball community make the 

best supporters? 

I’m big on positive psychology as a coach and after the 

testing times Ōtautahi’s been through, sport has proven 

critical for the community’s well-being. Something 

optimistic like regular sport to think about is the greatest 

positive distraction. Sport is an amazing connector and 

has a huge positive influence on our youth. Netball on the 

weekend, trainings through the week, get the endorphins 

going, catching up and playing together is therapeutic and 

now we see exactly how resilient Canterbury is for it. 

The South Island’s premier indoor community sport 

facility opens shortly. How will it help lift netball locally? 

Christchurch’s netballers are the ultimate stoics, they’ve 

been incredible playing on Hagley in the rain, hail, or shine, 

against those gusty Nor’westers or on frosty mornings – 

but we can take the netball to another level inside with 

the new centre opening this summer. It brings everyone 

together under the same roof and the vibe will be electric. 

It won’t just be a sports facility, it’ll be a community hub, a 

place for people to meet and eat, with strong emphasis on 

family and whānau. I can’t wait to see it in action. 

What do you love about FAST5? 

FAST5 has a real fun-factor to it. The whole crowd gets 

dressed up in loads of bright and hilarious costumes, it 

makes for a party atmosphere and an awesome weekend 

out. The game’s electric and matches can turn on a dime, 

one team can be well ahead but with the shorter quarters, 

power plays and super shots it can all turn very quickly. 

Any advice on what visitors should check out while 

they’re in Christchurch? 

If you enjoy keeping active on holiday, you’ll find we’re 

spoiled for walking tracks in Ōtautahi. From Hagley Park 

full of daffodils and lined with cherry blossoms to the 

sweeping views of the city from the Rāpaki Track, there’s 

stunning scenery at every turn. 

My fave is the drive to Taylors Mistake and the Godley 

Head walk. On a beautiful day you’ll catch views out to the 

Kaikōura Peninsula. Suitable for almost all difficulties and a 

great way to stretch the legs and see a different side of the 

city in spring. Plus, if you’re feeling brave enough, cool off 

with a brisk dip in breakers! 

Daytrippers can take their pick from tons of great 

destinations on our doorstep. If you’ve got the family 

in tow, beat a track to our favourite alpine destination 

Hanmer Springs for the country’s greatest waterpark 

and adrenaline activities, nestled in the snow-covered 

Southern Alps. 

Or get some balance back with a relaxing and romantic 

getaway to our serene, seaside town on the Banks 

Peninsula. With an eye-popping scenic drive, guided nature 

tours, fine dining and an amazing gin distillery, Akaroa is a 

destination unto itself.

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Akaroa French Festival – 6-8 Oct 

Crater Rim Ultra – 15 Oct 

Christchurch Big Band Festival – 19-23 Oct 

The Chicks – 30-31 Oct 

NZ Agricultural Show – 15-17 Nov 

FAST5 Netball World Series – 11-12 Nov 

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NZ Cup Week Riccarton Park – 11, 15, 18 Nov 

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Setting sail 

Award-winning artist and former McCahon House resident Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss 

draws on both the land – often literally – and sea in her latest work, 

now showing at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. 

WORDS REBECCA FOX


“I feel like I’m not 100 percent safe at sea because you have to really 

understand the elements, the weather, what you are doing, but I still have a 

sense of peace, a sense of unknowing, a sense of exploration.” 

Up painting until nearly midnight in the cabin of an ocean 

ship, Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss spreads out her day’s 

paintings to dry on every flat space – even her bed. 

The only clear surface left to sleep on is the couch, so she 

curls up on it for a few hours’ sleep. 

She’s on the Heritage Adventurer as it travels up New 

Zealand for two weeks visiting heritage sites explored by 

Captain James Cook on the Endeavour. 

“I wanted to visit important sites to our narrative in 

Aotearoa,” she says. 

Cora-Allan (Ngāpuhi, Ngātitumutumu, Niue: Alofi, Liku) 

doesn’t want to miss a moment of the experience, even if the 

sometimes rocky trip created some creative challenges. 

“I enjoy working on a boat, I’d do it again in a heartbeat.” 

The enjoyment of working on the water is something Cora- 

Allan only recently discovered. In 2021 she was selected for 

the Parehuia residency in Titirangi, Auckland, hosted by the 

McCahon House Trust. 

She decided, like McCahon, to take her studio to the water. 

So she bought a little boat and got her skipper’s licence. 

“The experience of being a boatie, I’m absolutely addicted 

to,” she says. 

“I feel like I’m not 100 percent safe at sea because you have 

to really understand the elements, the weather, what you are 

doing, but I still have a sense of peace, a sense of unknowing, a 

sense of exploration.” 

Her next trip, travelling up New Zealand’s coast, was 

“way more” than she could have expected as it has led to 

a first for the artist – being able to combine elements of 

both her Māori and Niuean whakapapa – using traditional 

hiapo (decorated bark cloth) from Niue and Māori painting 

techniques using pigments from the whenua (land) in her 

exhibition Encountering Aotearoa. 

“They have been able to collide in this show, meet in 

one space. The show itself heavily features the whenua, the 

landscape. It has been a real exploration for myself of what it 

means to be Māori and Niuean from the Pacific, to create and 

look at whenua, the place I live in, the way of experiencing it 

differently through this continuous trip around the coastline.” 

She travelled from south to north following in the footsteps 

of the botanists and artists on board the Endeavour during 

its maiden voyage in 1769, in particular Tupaia, a Tahitian 

navigator on the boat who had with him on the trip a young 

family member, Taiata. 

In an echo of this, Cora-Allan asked her Niuean father 

along, as her assistant. The pair are very close and her 

father often joins the family on arts residencies and 

research projects. 

“Having my dad there to accompany me but also to get his 

perspective of the trip was really interesting. He doesn’t come 

from an arts background but the knowledge of his generation 

living in Aotearoa allowed him to experience it differently. 

“It was really good to get a frame of reference from what 

he had learnt in school and what I had learnt.” 

As Cora-Allan tends to work from 5am to midnight, having 

someone to make her a cup of tea or just be there means a lot. 

“He’s a really good buddy to be honest. Just hearing his 

snoring in the corner is comforting. Working as an artist can 

be very isolating so having a whānau member on board makes 

it more whole.” 

It is also a reflection of the journey she and her father have 

been on. Growing up in West Auckland with four siblings in a 

three-bedroom house, the emphasis was on earning enough 

to feed the family. 

“I didn’t grow up in a household where art was a thing. For 

myself it was a very different world. My parents had never 

been to university – I was the first in my family to do so.” 

Cora-Allan forged her own path to be an artist, getting 

a scholarship to AUT at 17, enrolling without her family’s 

knowledge. Over the years as her practice has grown and her 

work has sold, her father has come around. 

“Now they’re really on board as they’re able to see the 

capacity of my dreams. My dad makes all my tools for my 

traditional hiapo practice and my sister is always there. We all 

kind of play roles, it’s not a singular practice, it’s one the whole 

family loves as they get to see one of us succeed.” 

Her father also created journals while on the boat, 

reflecting on the research he did on historical marine journals 

and the stories of mariners such as Sir Peter Blake. 

While the history shared aboard was from a Pākehā 

perspective, Cora-Allan and her father were able to add their 

knowledge to the mix.

ABOVE & RIGHT: Cora-Allan 

Lafaiki Twiss, Encountering 

Aotearoa, 2023. Installation 

views. Dunedin Public Art 

Gallery. Photo: Justin Spiers 

“It helped embody the story a little bit more. It made me 

think about the idea of the Pacific migration from then to 

where Māori are now, and [about] our culture… how things 

have changed and how art is being expressed.” 

She created some smaller works on the boat, of views 

from her window and of sites they visited. Her first attempt 

at using gold leaf as the boat rocked along in southern seas 

was not very successful. 

“I’m just lucky I have good sea legs. I purely went to 

painting, I didn’t add any gold leaf after that. The shape of 

the window started to incorporate itself into my work. I 

could see these two lines cutting up the whenua so it has 

come into the works.”


When she returned to land, she began work on what was to become a 17.4m-long work 

made up of 11 painted wooden panels. Named ‘Ko Ao, Ko Ao, Ko Aotearoa!’ for the call 

of Kuramārōtini, the wife of Kupe, one of New Zealand’s first navigators, it’s completely 

painted with clay from the whenua across the North and South islands. 

“It’s made from processes that Māori would have been using for 100 years and showcases 

that. It is a celebration of it for myself and is one of the show’s great achievements.” 

She has also used hiapo, but not in the way most people familiar with her work will 

expect. Her hiapo work has been credited with reigniting interest in the historical cultural 

practice in the Niuean community. 

“A lot of the compositions are new for me – my work doesn’t look like what it usually 

looks like. I think people are going to be surprised purely because I’m looking at it from the 

perspective of encountering Aotearoa – it doesn’t feature any traditional Niuean motifs that 

my work is known for.”


In these works she has used cyanotype, a photographic 

chemical process, on top of hiapo and exposed it to create 

a ‘photogram’ of some of the sites they visited, such as 

Luncheon Cove, where the first Pākehā built a house, and 

Dusky Sound. 

She also wanted to capture the light and essence of those 

historical places now and look at ways to archive that. 

“That is … very new to my practice and something 

I wanted to push, using traditional materials and 

contemporary as well.” 

Some of the hiapo were also soaked in sea water at 

some of the places they visited. 

“It’s almost like capturing the mauri [essence] from the 

moana. They work really nicely together.” 

Over the years, Cora-Allan has built up a large library 

of colours, many of them from her own tūrangawaewae, 

where she whakapapas to such places as the Waikato and 

the Bay of Islands, where her grandmother is buried. 

“Being able to see the whenua of our tipuna from the 

water was a really amazing experience for me and really 

rounded my thinking of the use of whenua.” 

In this show she has used 15 colours. Some are from 

people who have given them to her. 

“I like the idea of using mostly colours from where I’m 

from or where I live mostly in respect to the iwi who live in 

those areas.” 

But some areas like Rotorua and Taupō have “beautiful” 

coloured clays in pinks and purples. 

“I wish I had a lot of whakapapa around the country.” 

The Bay of Islands has a porcelain-type clay that makes a 

wonderful white pigment which she has used for the clouds 

in her large painting. 

“It’s the first time I’ve used clouds in this work, so the 

white in particular acting as clouds, it’s really nice that 

it comes from just around the corner from where my 

grandmother is buried.” 

Making the pigments is a time-intensive process that 

requires Cora-Allan to harvest on a dry day so she can 

accurately assess the colour of the clay. 

“When it’s wet it’s a completely different thing.” 

The clays are processed by sifting and grinding them 

down, sometimes for a very long time, to get it fine enough 

to use as paint. Then she adds a binder and water to the 

pigment. Traditionally the binder was anything from whale 

fat to shark oil or kauri gum. She uses kauri gum when 

she can access it, crushed down with water. 

“It’s all very natural. As I’m able to collect the pigments 

myself it’s free and doesn’t cost a lot in regard to money, 

but it does cost a lot in regard to time and knowledge.” 

Using pigments in this way is a growing practice in New 

Zealand, and Cora-Allan thinks her 17.4m work is probably 

one of the largest ever done in the pigments. 

The size of the work also presented challenges for how it 

would be displayed. 

Cora-Allan, who trained as a gallery art installer in 

Canada in a previous life, could envision it floating, but 

didn’t want it just to be hung. She wanted it to have a 

correlation with the history of painting and the history of 

the whenua. 

The key was a visit to British representative James 

Busby’s house on the Treaty of Waitangi grounds, the 

last place the Treaty of Waitangi, which has had farreaching 

impacts on the country’s landscape and politics, 

was edited. 

Seeing an exposed wall, she measured it to be 17.4m long. 

“That was the unexpected twist in the making of the 

work,” she says. 

Luckily for Cora-Allan, she and her family live in a 

converted church with 4.5m-high ceilings. For this one, due 

to its size, she could only work on four panels at a time. 

She hopes the show, her first solo touring exhibition, will 

appeal to everyone. Alongside the exhibition is a publication 

she describes as being like a little diary of the special 

moments she and her father shared on the journey. 

Cora-Allan has only been working full‐time as an artist for 

three years, but it has made a huge difference to her work. 

“I’ve been able to push and stretch, but without the 

support of Creative New Zealand to be in that position, I 

would be way, way back. 

“I wouldn’t have developed as far or dreamed as big. I’m 

very lucky.” 

She has a drive to make her dreams come true, doing 

whatever it takes to make her ideas work. Her latest is to 

go to the US next year to do archive research at Harvard 

and the Smithsonian, so she has applied to Creative New 

Zealand for funding. 

First though, she is to graduate from the fullimmersion 

te reo Māori course she has been doing 

alongside her artwork. 

“It’s the best study experience I’ve ever had and I studied 

for seven years before that. It is eye-opening the different 

study you can do, I love going every day.” 

She goes to her course at the same time her boys go 

to school. 

“They don’t know anything different. They think all 

houses have giant wooden panels with paint brushes and 

dirt and every mum has a mortar and pestle and shelves 

of clay.” 

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Let it grow 

It wasn’t until Julia Atkinson-Dunn purchased a house in Christchurch that the former 

interior design pro nervously turned her hand to gardening. Fast-forward a few years and 

Julia has just released her third tome celebrating the joys of gardening, which “aims 

to fill in the practical basics needed by beginners while providing inspiration and support 

for gardeners as they continue to grow in confidence”. 

WORDS & PHOTOS JULIA ATKINSON-DUNN 

STARTING A GARDEN: THE BARRIERS 

& BREAKTHROUGHS 

Recently, during a meandering chat with a friend, we 

strayed onto gardening, a topic new to our relationship 

of a decade or so. We talked about the lacklustre 

performance of some of her potted plants and I offered 

some advice based on my own trial and error. 

We would never have had this conversation early in our 

friendship, a time when neither of us harboured much 

interest in growing beyond the odd indoor plant in our 

respective apartments. We wouldn’t have made it past the 

confused, ‘What do you think I should do?’ stage either, as 

this was knowledge we didn’t harbour. 

Yet, here we were now, with gardens and plant-based 

ideas that whirl around our heads at night and send us 

hunting for answers. 

This conversation got me thinking about my own 

adventure from non-gardener to gardener. My path into a 

full-blown obsession for growing was entirely wound up in 

just two things: my stage in life, and property. 

Up until the age of 34, my adult years had seen me 

renting and moving every three years. Not just house, but 

town and even island! 

My interest in spaces and design was fully focused on 

interiors, art and the precious possessions I could take 

with me. I did love being in other people’s gardens, but 

domestic outdoor spaces were what I affectionately 

thought of as ‘life background’. 

In hindsight, my interests easily transferred to my current 

passion and pursuit of creating an ornamental, seasonal 

garden. But up until we purchased our Christchurch home, 

which had a garden (albeit spiky and evergreen), I had 

never had the urge to grow much of anything. 

Now, what I previously considered ‘life background’ is 

one of my life’s primary focuses! The garden is central to 

my creativity, wellbeing, connections and even work. From 

the comfortable, base level of experience I have now, it is 

easy for me to forget the blank-faced intimidation I felt at 

where and how to start. 

Back then, for the first time in my life, I had found myself 

ready to go with the space, the time and the existing 

inclination to research, but still felt that gardening was a 

foreign language that might just be too hard to learn. 

Through doing, listening and reading I have built a bank 

of knowledge I couldn’t have imagined would ever fit in 

my head! 

Perhaps the biggest lesson, however, is that I didn’t need 

to know everything I do now to begin growing. And I will 

never be finished learning, as the constant discovery of 

gardening is what keeps me engaged. The understanding 

that I am only scratching the surface of the knowledge I 

can utilise both humbles and excites me. 

After canvassing my garden friends and followers on 

Instagram about their perceived barriers to beginning to 

garden and the breakthrough discoveries that have kept 

them moving forward with their growing adventure, I 

realised how much in common we all had! 

Their responses, combined with my own experiences, 

have helped me form what I hope is a reassuring list to 

give others the confidence to start their own garden.


BARRIER 

Lack of knowledge. 

DISCOVERY 

Consider this: If gardening is so hard, then how is it that 

so many people do it? 

The best way to learn is simply by doing. Through trial 

and error, you will rapidly gather relevant information 

as you grow. It’s true, too, that with gardening comes 

new connections and resources that may not have been 

obvious before. You don’t have to learn how to garden in 

isolation – ask family, friends and neighbours for advice. 

Staff at garden centres trip over themselves to assist 

new gardeners! 

Type in the most basic of your questions online and 

be rewarded with free resources provided by gardeners 

the world over. YouTube, social media, websites and the 

library allow you to dip your toe into gardening as a 

beginner without investing too much time or money. 

And remember that you have a partner in growing – 

Mother Nature. She takes care of most of it – you just 

need to learn the bare basics to get her started. 

BARRIER 

Lack of time. 

DISCOVERY 

Gardening absolutely takes time. From preparing beds to 

starting seeds, transplanting and weeding, your garden 

also needs time to grow. While there is no instant 

gratification here, the enforced patience seems to have a 

magnetic appeal once you experience a successful result. 

On reflection, the time spent in your garden is 

actually the point of it all. Ten minutes spent weeding or 

deadheading is ten minutes of self-care. Stolen moments 

of fresh air and your hands in the earth will change your 

life for the better. By all accounts, spending time working 

in the garden with children can also be a calming family 

activity. 

Most importantly, your garden doesn’t need you to 

tend to it daily! Plants want to grow and don’t need 

supervision. If life leads you away for a while, you’ll find 

that your garden is much more forgiving than you realise 

and getting it back on track isn’t always the mammoth, 

painful job you imagine.


“Now, what I previously 

considered ‘life background’ 

is one of my life’s primary 

focuses! The garden is central 

to my creativity, wellbeing, 

connections and even work.”


BARRIER 

Expense. 

DISCOVERY 

Growing a garden can be as expensive as 

you want it to be. You have choices regarding 

the level of investment you want to make 

at every turn, with cost-saving options to 

take in nearly every aspect of growing. I find 

that money can sometimes save me time, 

but if I am patient, exactly the same results 

can be achieved by taking a cheaper, albeit 

slower, route. 

If creating your first garden, start small. 

Garden in containers if renting or carve up a 

little piece of lawn to have your first go. 

Learning the difference between annual 

and perennial plants can provide options for 

when you might choose to purchase or grow 

from seed. It can be vastly cheaper to grow 

from seed but this takes more effort than 

plugging in purchased seedlings or mature 

plants. Scanning the perennial table during 

autumn garden centre sales can reveal money 

and time-saving deals! Many plants can also 

be harvested for cuttings, which you can 

propagate to increase your stock. And after 

a couple of years, many perennial plants can 

be dug up, divided and replanted to instantly 

bolster that plant’s presence in your bed. The 

only expense here is time! 

When buying tools, buy once by buying 

well. A good hand trowel will last you years – 

the cheapest one will bend at the first dig of 

a potato. 

All in all, the biggest barrier I see in people 

choosing to start gardening, is they do not yet 

know the immense satisfaction and reward 

that awaits them. From their first homegrown 

salad greens to their first vase of flowers, 

surely gardening is the most beautiful and 

simple of life’s pleasures. 

Extracted from A Guided 

Discovery of Gardening by 

Julia Atkinson-Dunn, 

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with Tim Goom 

The Importance 

of Planting 

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PICKING PREBBLETON 

Being the first residents to move into a brand-new retirement village and buying off plans is not for everyone, 

but for Summerset Prebbleton’s residents, Ann and Brian O’Neill the decision couldn’t have been easier. 

Originally Ann and Brian’s search for a retirement village 

began on behalf of Brian’s widowed cousin, the pair 

thought moving into one themselves would be a lot further 

down the track. That was until the search lead them to the 

site of Brian’s former workplace to check out the progress 

of Summerset Prebbleton, Summerset’s fourth and newest 

Christchurch village being built on the old Meadow 

Mushrooms site. 

would be like and what the facilities would be when they all 

came in. Everything with Summerset was seamless, (even the) 

contract was in good, plain English.” 

Brian’s role was in haulage, he was employed by Frews 

Contracting to transport around 1500 tonnes of new and 

spent compost every week from the Meadow Mushrooms site. 

“We happened to be looking through the fence during 

construction, and Brian remarked “That one will be our villa 

there,” said Ann. “That’s when we started to have a serious 

conversation about bringing the move forward. We ended up 

buying off plan.” 

During their hunt with Brian’s cousin, the couple had visited 

the Summerset at Avonhead village several times and were 

struck by how comfortable they felt there. “We just felt 

right at home and got a really nice vibe from the place.” said 

Brian. “We had no qualms about buying off the plans for 

Prebbleton because Avonhead showed us what the village 

Above: Ann and Brian with their cat Mathew Purry.

“There were about three or four of us bringing it in and out. 

The compost would get very hot. Where our lovely villa is 

now, is where the wooden (mushroom) growing racks were 

washed!” Brian worked for the company for about eight 

years, but a small stroke meant he was not allowed to drive 

commercially for three years, prompting his retirement. “We 

decided that eventually a retirement village would be on the 

cards. We wanted reassurance that if things deteriorated for 

us health wise, there would be facilities to take care of us.” 

says Brian. 

The village’s origins as a farming site appealed to the pair, 

who appreciate the rural surroundings. Being the first 

residents to move into the village, the thrill of a new chapter 

set in from night one. “It was a little weird!” says Ann. “That 

first night once the staff went home, we had the whole place 

to ourselves and we wandered around enjoying the space.” 

weeks away, the couple arrived home at 1am on New Year’s 

Day to find balloons and a Welcome Home sign on their 

front door. 

Knowing their home is safe and secure behind the gate and 

key fob, gives Ann and Brian the confidence to make the 

most of their motorhome. And with their friendly neighbours 

and amazing village team keeping an eye on things, they can 

relax and enjoy their adventures. 

If you’re interested in finding out more about Prebbleton, 

get in touch with Grace today on 03 353 6312. Or pop into 

the village to tour the show homes any day of the week and 

see for yourself why residents love the Summerset life! 

The couple were the only residents for about a week before 

neighbours came to join them. Having had first choice of 

homes, Brian and Ann selected to live next to the home 

temporarily being used for the village events and Happy 

Hour. “A short stroll from all the fun!” 

As the inaugural residents, Ann and Brian welcome their new 

neighbours with open arms, ensuring they get to know them 

at various events. “We actually didn’t have any expectations 

around the social side,” remarks Brian. “We thought we were 

just getting a house, but it’s like going to a resort that you 

bring your own furniture to!” 

Ann agrees. “Everyone who lives here really gets on well. 

We all seem to be on the same wavelength. At our time 

of life, you want to relax, enjoy yourself and not worry 

about things. There’s loads going on here and we also go off 

exploring a lot in our motorhome, which we have parking for 

up the road.” 

The freedom of retirement living has been made more 

special by the Summerset Prebbleton team “going the extra 

mile” and with home maintenance taken care of there’s 

nothing holding them back. “There’s no climbing ladders, 

it’s cheaper here than to own as there’s no rates, no 

maintenance.” The proof was in the pudding when after two 

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Sounds good 

Christchurch-based travel writer Mike Yardley enjoys some serene spring 

encounters in Marlborough’s Queen Charlotte Sound. 

WORDS MIKE YARDLEY 

Nature rules supreme in Queen Charlotte Sound. I was 

kept amused by your typical group of teenagers out 

cruising. Frisky, playful, and rather shameless attention-seekers. 

A large pod of juvenile bottle-nose dolphins turned on quite 

the spectacle as I purred across Queen Charlotte Sound from 

Picton, on Beachcomber’s Mail Boat cruise. 

The frolicking dolphins basked in the boat’s wake before 

unleashing their acrobatic impulses, leaping out of the water 

and flying through the air like seasoned circus performers, 

before finally splitting off after one final celebratory splash. 

Our ebullient skipper Phil peppered the cruise commentary 

with a feast of fascinating insights. Māori call Queen Charlotte 

Sound Tōtaranui, because they think the sound resembles 

the shape of the mighty tree. Many of the old weatherboard 

homes in Wellington have a direct connection with this sound 

– the timber was milled here.

Travel | Magazine 61 

LEFT: Furneaux 

Lodge. Photo: 

MarlboroughNZ 

OPPOSITE: Picton 

Marina. Photo: 

Mike Yardley 

We gazed out across to the Edwin Fox, on Dunbar 

Wharf. It’s the world’s second oldest surviving 

merchant sailing ship, and the only surviving ship that 

transported convicts to Australia – well worth a visit 

when in Picton. 

We rendezvoused with one of New Zealand King 

Salmon’s farms in Ruakākā Bay, heavily fortified in 

perimeter fencing to stop the fur seals doing a driveby 

feed. They make a hideous mess if they manage 

to break in. Workers live on-site, two weeks on, two 

weeks off. Processed in Nelson, they are the largest 

producer of farmed king salmon in the world. 

In Resolution Bay, we fed fish off the side of the 

boat – colossal-sized blue cod and yellow-eyed mullet. 

The water was positively swarming with fish, 

because it’s part of Long Island Marine Reserve. 

Fishing is strictly prohibited, although I did feel rather 

peckish. We even spotted a lumbering fur seal 

snoozing on the back of a luxury yacht at anchor. 

Mr Seal must have taken the boat’s name to heart – 

‘Feeling Nauti’. 

We also met some of the local legends who 

call the solitude of the Sounds home, including a 

14-year-old black labrador who was trained as a pup 

to take his owner’s mail bag down to meet the boat 

and collect the incoming mail. 

If you’re keen to combine cruising with a spot 

of hiking and an overnight stay, there’s a variety of 

sizzling options. On arrival at Ship Cove, I dabbled 

in the creek where Cook made home brew for 

his crew, before surveying the magnificent Captain 

Cook monument commemorating his repeat visits 

to the area. 

Remarkably, one of the original cannons from 

Endeavour adorns the monument. The cannon 

was salvaged from Cape Tribulation in North 

Queensland, after the Endeavour ran aground 

on a reef and the crew had to throw numerous 

equipment overboard, to free the ship. 

A gorgeous carved pou whenua (pole) was 

installed at Ship Cove 16 years ago, showcasing the 

legend of Kupe and the giant octopus he chased in 

these waters. 

After soaking up the history and the tranquil 

beauty of Ship Cove, and with my walking boots 

firmly laced up, I struck out for a taster of the 

Queen Charlotte Track. The full 73km traverse 

from Ship Cove to Anakiwa is typically a four-day 

affair, but if you’re itching for a bite-sized chunk of 

this celebrated trek, I definitely recommend the first 

day’s section from Ship Cove to Furneaux Lodge. 

Fashioned from pioneering era bridle paths, the 

track was officially opened by DOC in 1991, in 

conjunction with private landowners, who continue 

to help its maintenance. The 15km section starts 

with a steep, thigh-burning haul, climbing away from 

the beach, through regenerating native forest. 

But after that initial gut-buster, the rest of the 

four-hour-long trail was a breeze, with gentle 

undulations up and down panoramic ridgelines. 

Gregariously chirping fantails, fluting tūī calls 

and the limpid notes dropped by bellbirds were a 

constant avian soundtrack, as I threaded my way 

through forests of mānuka, kānuka, tawa, tree ferns 

and beech. Curious weka shuffled by, wood pigeons 

whooshed, but I didn’t see any wild pigs – first 

released in these parts by Cook. 

The lookout point at Tawa Saddle serves up 

seraphic views across Queen Charlotte Sound, while 

more pixel-burning vantage points loom large as you 

descend into Resolution Bay. 

In the higher reaches of the track, the elevated 

views offer mouth-watering glimpses of some of 

New Zealand’s most remote holiday homes, glorious 

little escape pads of supreme seclusion. 

From Resolution Bay, the final stretch followed 

a well-graded old bridle path over a ridge and into 

Endeavour Inlet, threading along the shoreline.

An unexpected surprise was the short 

detour to ogle one of New Zealand’s 

largest and oldest trees, a 1000-yearold 

rimu, in Howden Forest. A viewing 

boardwalk was recently built around the 

tree to safeguard its ancient roots. What a 

stunning specimen it is. 

Feeling weary and somewhat jellylegged, 

I toddled across the finish line 

with a flourish, sweetly surrendering 

to the laid‐back hospitality embrace of 

Furneaux Lodge. 

Built by the Howden family nearly 120 

years ago, the original homestead was 

thronging with thirsty patrons, chilling out 

and swapping tales, before boarding the 

boat at 5pm for the return run to Picton. 

The second stage of the Queen 

Charlotte Track connects Furneaux Lodge 

with Punga Cove on a flat/easy 12km 

coastline track around Endeavour Inlet, 

through lush regenerating native bush, 

soundtracked with birdsong. It’s a doddle. I 

struck out on this trail on my most recent 

sojourn in Queen Charlotte Sound. (It’s 

easy to arrange pick-ups and drop-offs if 

you only want to walk one way.) 

On my latest encounter in the Sounds, 

I based myself at the magnificent Punga 

Cove Resort. Its name pays homage to 

the plentiful punga ferns that thrive in this 

high-rainfall area of the Sounds. There 

are also many rimu, mataī and miro trees 

near the coast, while further away the 

red beech is predominant. 

Nestled amongst sublime scenery, 

Punga Cove is a blissed-out retreat, 

draping the hillside, overlooking the 

jewel-like hue of Endeavour Inlet, backed 

by a procession of peaks. The range 

of accommodation spans all tastes and 

budgets, from bunkrooms and retro 

chalets to stylish apartments and suites. 

Crowning the hillside, I bedded down 

in one of the Frond Suites, a cradle 

of relaxation and pampered comfort. 

It’s the spacious private deck, with 

those gloriously wide vistas that kept 

commanding my attention. 

Heading to bed with a star-flecked sky 

above, I awoke to an ethereal dawn, feeling 

transported to the brooding intensity of 

Fiordland. Coiling fingers of mist caressed 

the ridgelines and tumbled down to the 

waterline, recasting Endeavour Inlet in 

glowering alpine drama before the sky split 

open and it rained bullets. An hour later – 

bluebird skies resumed transmission. 

“No matter how 

active or languid 

your stay may be, 

all of your senses 

are engaged in 

this definitive 

New Zealand 

experience.”

Travel | Magazine 63 

LEFT: Marlborough 

Sounds. Photo: 

MarlboroughNZ 

BELOW: Punga 

Cove. Photo: MTC 

OPPOSITE: 

Bottlenose dolphins. 

Photo: Mike Yardley

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Dining is another triumph, with 

the Punga Fern Restaurant cooking 

up a storm with à la carte breakfast 

from daybreak to fine evening dining, 

from its hilltop roost, where menus 

are proudly assembled from local 

produce. 

For dinner, I enjoyed an entree of 

Cloudy Bay clams with linguine, citrus 

espuma, creole and herbs. It was a 

tough task singling out a main, but I 

plumped for the divine Canterbury 

duck breast, which was served as 

croquettes, topped with carrot puree, 

beetroot and jus. Drool! 

There’s a feast of activity options 

including the complimentary use of 

kayaks and stand-up paddleboards. 

Add to that, the on-site swimming pool 

and spa tubs, plus wine tours, seafood 

cruises and sailing, diving and fishing 

charters on offer nearby. 

But with limited time, I chose to 

stretch the legs on another hearty 

slice of the Queen Charlotte Track, 

striking out to reach Eatwell’s Lookout. 

It’s quite the lung-buster on this 

four-hour return workout, with a 

particularly steep ascent to reach 

Kenepuru Saddle from Punga Cove, 

before climbing even higher to reach 

the view of all views on the Queen 

Charlotte Track, Eatwell’s Lookout. 

Drink in that soul-singing 

360-degree panorama. The lookout 

is named in honour of Rod Eatwell, 

a private landowner on part of 

the Kenepuru ridge that was made 

available for the public track. He’s 

dubbed the grandfather of the 

walkway. (You will need to buy a pass 

from reception to access this part 

of the track. It’s just $12 for the day 

pass.) 

But no matter how active or 

languid your stay may be at Punga 

Cove, all of your senses are engaged 

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experience. Your camera can’t do 

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ABOVE: Queen Charlotte track forest 

walk from Ship Cove. Photo: Mike 

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Interplanetary art 

Alien worlds have landed at Tūhura Otago Museum, 

via Roswell-based (yes that Roswell) Kiwi artist Jess Johnson. 

WORDS TOM MCKINLAY

Art | Magazine 67 

First-hand tales of alien abductions and daytime heat that 

seems to come from another solar system’s bigger star – 

artist Jess Johnson is in her element. 

Both are courtesy of Roswell, where she is doing a 

year‐long residency in the remote high desert. 

Lately, that has involved days north of 40°C and just last 

month the New Mexico town held its annual UFO Festival, 

which included an “amazing symposium of speakers and 

panels”, she says. 

“People telling their first-hand accounts of alien abductions. 

“It is a dream being here.” 

A dream, but no accident – Jess has had her eye on the 

residency for some time, waiting for the right time to beam in. 

While there, the New Zealand artist hopes to have time 

and space to let her imagination journey off in some new 

directions – or, perhaps more likely, some new dimensions. 

Like the science fiction from which Jess draws some of her 

inspiration, her art is not subject to the normal laws of physics. 

Proof of that is on display from today at Tūhura Otago 

Museum, where the interactive virtual reality (VR) headsetplatformed 

exhibition Terminus is opening, and where her new 

planetarium film XYZZY is having its international premiere. 

Terminus drops viewers into five immersive worlds of Jess's 

creation; psychedelic spaces that collapse the space between 

the ancient and the distant future, reflecting “ideologies of 

technology and flesh”. 

The VR experiences are created in partnership with 

filmmaker Simon Ward, who builds the minutely detailed 3D 

worlds from hand drawings by Jess. 

The new planetarium film draws from the same well, Simon 

manipulating images from a vast database of Jess's art, setting 

the whole to specially commissioned electronic music by 

Andrew Clarke, Luke Rowell and Stef Animal. 

Jess, who is in town for the twin unveilings, says Roswell 

and her fictional worlds are connected in other ways too. 

Designs created for the Terminus exhibition carry a hint of 

Jess’s own familial connection to Mexico. 

“My mother is Mexican American, my middle name is 

Juanita – named after my grandmother.” 

The Mount Maunganui-raised artist says she cannot claim 

a deep connection to Mexican culture, but that part of her 

family history is not unexplored. 

“There is definite influence from old – what would you say? 

– lineages of craft and things like that. My mother is a quilt 

maker, so she was always in the corner of the lounge room 

cutting up material and piecing together and making these 

really elaborate patterned patchwork quilts – and I think there 

is a similar construction in my drawings and the geometries 

and patterns that I use, from mum’s analogue quilt making to 

my analogue drawing.” 

In the likes of Terminus, those beginnings become digitised 

and deified, multiplied and amplified. 

Christchurch art school-trained Jess has been drawing 

full‐time, building these worlds for more than a decade now 

in what she describes as a long, slow dredging process. 

“The ideas and the nature of the world definitely wasn’t 

fully formed when I started basing all my drawings within the 

same realm in 2012. It has been a very organic building of 

the cosmology, or the narrative and the characters, over the 

past decade.” 

Jess’s collaboration with Simon began a week after their 

introduction by a friend, she says. 

They were both aware of each other’s work and immediately 

set about animating her imagery. They have not stopped. 

“Quite early on, we got this commission to make a VR 

artwork on one of the early developer models and that led to

68 Magazine | Art 

this larger commission with the National Gallery of Australia. 

Everything has kind of led into bigger and bigger projects.” 

Simon has a different skill set to her, she says. 

“He is able to do these incredible things with the analogue 

drawings that I make. 

“My toolkit is pen and paper. His is this digital world.” 

Among other things, Jess likes that their work together 

has made the art accessible to more people. Not only does 

it fill gallery spaces but can also be downloaded from online 

VR stores. 

“That is kind of interesting for us because it reaches the 

online gaming community, who wouldn’t necessarily be 

able to catch one of our exhibitions in a gallery, or have the 

inclination to go to a gallery.” 

The planetarium project, XYZZY, has the potential to 

extend that reach further still. 

“A lot of planetariums, they are all over the world, and 

they are often in these weird, out-of-the-way places, off the 

beaten track – like the Roswell Museum has a planetarium 

attached to it. It means that the work can travel after 

it has been premiered at Otago. It means it can travel 

to planetariums all over the world, and hopefully reach 

these audiences that might not have so much access to 

contemporary art.” 

But it is by no means all about the digital and the 

projectable for Jess – the gallery space at Tūhura that is 

hosting Terminus is wallpapered with tangible examples of 

her work, creating a physical world within which the VR 

experiences play out. 

“I think I am definitely a maximalist by nature,” Jess says 

of this layered approach. “That is evident in my drawings 

and the detail and the orders of obsession I get into with 

the drawings themselves; but then in terms of the audience 

experience, going in to see one of our exhibitions in a 

gallery, I like to offer a level of generosity of what people are 

going to see in the gallery.” 

It is all designed to have an impact. And it does. 

People cry, then email Jess later to say how profoundly 

affected they were. 

For some, the VR worlds are quite dystopian; human forms 

locked in inescapable cycles of action and formidable creatures 

summoned from the id. 

Jess gets that, though it has never been her intention or 

her experience. 

“But I never wanted to be didactic or tell people what their 

experience should be. I think there is enough space amongst it 

all for people to project their own stuff into the cracks.” 

Transporting their work to the planetarium is a whole new 

ball game, though their VR experience helped in terms of 

considering space beyond a flat screen, she says. 

“There were all these other new considerations to make. 

The fact that you can’t show the floor in a planetarium.” 

They had to think about where the horizons were and how 

to transport people from one place to another – all without 

inducing nausea. 

“You have a tendency, you want to throw all these 

psychedelic patterns or weird falling movements.” 

During the making, Simon would take demos into the 

Wellington or Otago Museum planetarium to test them. 

As a piece of film, it is very driven by the pieces of music, 

the commissions for which stipulated a tone or a mood, 

Jess says. 

“Then those were pieced together in tonal journey, or an 

emotional journey and then the musical tracks influenced a 

lot of the imagery, the visuals that Simon was choosing to 

accompany it. 

“There is a narrative but … like a lot of our work, there 

is always a journey or a quest and it is always very cyclical. 

We always return to the beginning. They were kind of the 

themes that Terminus was based around as well. So there is 

a narrative in it but it is more an emotional narrative, it’s not 

language-based.” 

Terminus runs at Tūhura Otago Museum until February 25, 2024. 

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Manifesto Sun 15 Oct, Wānaka 

With multiple free events. 

7-20 October 2023 

worldsedgefestival.com

70 Magazine | Promotion 

A CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 

LIKE NO OTHER 

There’s nothing quite like live music to make the world around you fall away. 

A shared experience connecting humans across the globe, music has the power to wrap around your senses 

and strip everything else away – and never is this felt more than during the classical music 

performances of the At the World’s Edge Festival. 

This spring, the AWE Festival returns to the Southern 

Lakes for its third year, with six interweaving 

programmes exploring the festival’s theme around the 

dimensions of identity. 

From the Whakatipu Basin through the Kawarau Gorge to 

Cromwell and Bannockburn and along the valley to Wānaka, 

Aotearoa’s leading chamber musicians will be joined by 

international artists and emerging domestic talent to perform 

gripping chamber music pieces in intimate surrounds. 

The performances include new works by this year’s 

Composer in Residence, Victoria Kelly, one of Aotearoa’s 

foremost modern composers. 

“The thrill you get from witnessing a truly memorable 

performance is akin to the excitement and adrenaline you feel 

when you’re out and about in the natural playground of the 

Southern Lakes,” says co-founder, violinist and festival director 

Justine Cormack. 

“As its name suggests, AWE is about invoking these feelings 

through music and connecting this experience with the 

incredible landscapes that surround us.” 

The theme of this year’s festival explores the dimensions 

of identity, delving into new perspectives, overlapping realities 

and cultural realms being crossed. These ideas are fleshed 

out by the carefully curated programme and musicians, 

some hailing from as far afield as Finland, Estonia, China and 

Germany – no strangers to finding roots in soil far from their 

native lands. 

“Over the course of the three festivals so far, the 

programmes seem to have mirrored the journey of AWE 

itself,” says Justine. 

“We started in 2021, finding our place in the Southern 

Lakes with an entirely New Zealand ensemble. Last year, with 

open borders, international performers were able to join our 

homegrown talent. This year, we’ve built on our journey so far 

with a celebration of the multi-dimensional nature of identity 

– the identity of the festival itself as much as that of the music. 

“Whether you’re a festival regular or a newcomer 

to chamber music, I’d urge everyone to take a look at 

AWE’s programme and book in for one of the world-class 

performances that will be taking place this spring.” 

For tickets and more information, head to worldsedgefestival.com

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AWE-struck in the Alps 

This spring, experience live music like never before when 

the AWE Festival returns. At the World’s Edge is an annual 

classical musical festival that brings world-class musicians 

and thrilling performances to Central Otago and the 

Southern Lakes between October 7–15. We have two 

tickets to give away to a concert performance of your 

choice in Queenstown, Wānaka or Bannockburn, valued at 

$130 (subject to availability). NB: If you’ve bought tickets and 

are then selected as the winner, AWE will refund the cost of 

two tickets. 

worldsedgefestival.com 

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