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The Unmaking
Exploring the transformations necessary in creative practice - the work behind the work. Big or small, the moments when we sometimes have to let go of what once worked and deal with what follows.
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Episodes
The UnmakingThreads & memories
Kathy Barber’s picked a scenic carpark above the path she used to run when she first arrived in Wānaka, not far from home, where the lake gets ready to become…
The UnmakingRoots and wings
Cromwell’s Yannick Fourbet, aka The French Potter, has spent his life moving: born in Cameroon, schooled in France, off to study in America at 19 with The…
The UnmakingHidden in plain sight.
“I’ve always loved creating space for conversations that matter.” Ed Cruikshank grew up between Liverpool and Manchester, trained as a cabinetmaker, then…
The UnmakingWhy wouldn’t a community have their own app?!
Tony O’Regan is the founder of the Wānaka App - locals’ trusted first digital port-of-call when it comes to regional news and events, and New Zealand’s first…
The UnmakingEverything’s interconnected.
“The way that nature works is beautiful irrespective of its visual appearance. Everything’s interconnected. Everything operates in cyclical flows that produce…
The UnmakingS01E10: Jo Mills - Copywriter. The Outlet, Lake Wānaka
Jo Mills and I met up at The Outlet, the point where Lake Wānaka becomes Mata-Au / the Clutha River. Jo and her then-boyfriend Nick first lived together here…
The UnmakingS01E09: Ed Leigh - Broadcaster & Producer. Wānaka
"I pinch myself every day"We recorded this one sitting outside Ed Leigh’s home above Lake Wānaka’s Peninsula Bay. Bought as a bare section by Ed and his wife…
The UnmakingS01E08: Carmen Hubber - Designer. Arrow Junction, Queenstown
A handshake kind of girlWhen Carmen Hubber’s daughter Ruby was born in 2003, she walked away from a senior interior design role at McKenzie & Willis, printed…
The UnmakingS01E07: Laura Williamson - Writer. Dean’s Bank, Albert Town
Laura Williamson arrived in Wānaka the week of the big flood of 1999. The water had just receded, the high water mark was still visible on the supermarket…
The UnmakingS01E06: Ben Wallbank - Filmmaker. Tititea / Mt. Aspiring Lookout
The character traits that emerged so unexpectedly in the immediate aftermath of a car crash - the way he instinctively knew what to do, and how to do it - felt…
The UnmakingS01E05: Jenny Chisholm - landscape painter. Glendhu Bay.
S01E05. Jenny Chisholm. Landscape painter.Landscape guides meJenny Chisholm was “unmade” for the first time at two weeks old. Offered up. Then chosen. Adopted…
The UnmakingS01E04: Tony “Buzz” Burrows. Pendant light designer
S01E04: Tony “Buzz” Burrows. Pendant light designer The Universe Inside a Ping-Pong Ball Tony Burrows is a designer and artist, former director of photography…
The UnmakingS01E03: Siobháin Hooper - Celebrant and Poet
Siobháin Hooper is a wedding celebrant and poet, and someone who has spent most of her adult life being very good at telling other people's stories. In…
The UnmakingS01E02: Briar Hardy-Hesson - The Fruit Bowl Studio
Briar Hardy-Hesson is a maker, jeweller, and founding member of the Arté Collective in Luggate. She operates under the name Fruit Bowl Studio - a name chosen…
The UnmakingS01E01 Nathan Weathington: You need someone to do the math around the art, otherwise you don't get to do the art.
Episode Summary Recorded on the banks of the Clutha River / Te Mata Au in Albert Town, this conversation traces the unlikely journey of Nathan Weathington -…
The UnmakingThe Unmaking - Episode Zero
In early 2025, I found myself towing an old horsefloat crammed full of toys, tools and memories from more than two decades of life in Germany, south through…
The UnmakingMeet Flø
Meet Flø, a former rental horse float, and the spiritual home of The Unmaking. Over summer we converted her into a mobile studio, in the spirit of making…