Inside the Jewel Box

In this episode we interview Hamish Coney. Hamish’s involvement in researching, preserving and shaping our cultural landscape takes multiple forms. Hamish trained as an art historian. In the last few years he has moved away from working mostly in a market-related context (after leaving his role as Managing Director for Art and Object, which he was in for 12 years). His recent projects are vast and fascinating. He is working with Ja...

In this episode we interview Rose Evans (Te Ati Awa). Rose works as a museum consultant who specialises in the conservation of social history, art and cultural materials. With over 25 years of experience she commands a broad range of skills in conservation care and research, collection management, and preventive conservation. Rose has a formidable expertise in objects and textile conservation of taonga. In 2012, Rose set up Objectl...

In this episode we interview Richard Fahey. Richard is a senior lecturer in Design and Contemporary Arts at Unitec, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. His research activity is focused on material culture of Aotearoa New Zealand. As an independent writer, critic and advocate, he addresses contemporary cultural production and its reception via the historical and institutional contexts of education, critical discourse, collection and exhibitio...

In this episode we interview Dr Bronwyn Lloyd.  Bronwyn is a crafter and art writer who lives in Mairangi Bay, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She works one day a week at Objectspace, researching Warwick Freeman’s jewellery practice in the lead up to a survey show of his work in 2025. The rest of the time she is engaged in two absorbing slow-crafting projects: decorating a Modernist dolls’ house and producing a body of textile works call...

Our first interview is with one of our hosts, Dr Sandy Callister. Sandy graduated in 2023 with a Masters in Law Masters 1st Class Honours in Human Rights from Auckland University. Her work as a community activist with tamariki through the Painga Project in high deprivation communities in South Auckland was the catalyst for further study.

From 2003 to 2017 Sandy was a founder director of PROVIDENCE GROUP...