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Husband and wife art team Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole at their home in Otahuhu, Auckland. Together they create dayglo Whakairo and pou from polystyrene and crochet. Rudi describes their work as “igniting joy globally”.
Artists Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole are building a wharenui to celebrate Matariki 2022, but there won’t be a stick of wood in sight It will be a whare whakairo, a carved meeting house, with star-spangled pou telling the story of the annual celestial event. But rather than chisels and mallets, the Robinson-Coles use hot wires and crochet needles; in place of wood, polystyrene and miles of dayglo yarn, the brightest they can find.
Evie Kemp and Woven Earth introduced a wealth of colour and fun to this converted garage playroom at the Te Whānau Rangimarie women s refuge in Auckland. Video by Show and Tell
Designer Evie Kemp recently helped complete an interior makeover with a difference – she was contacted by the charity Woven Earth and asked to help transform a very plain double garage at the Te Whānau Rangimarie women’s refuge safe house in Auckland. The garage is used as a playroom-second living area at the house, which can accommodate up to 19 women and children who have escaped domestic violence. But it was in desperate need of a little love and attention.