Creative Profiles
“Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought” - Albert Einstein
For makers and creators, the work can be reward enough, but part of our role is to amplify what you do. We can help you reach a wider audience, access resources, connect with networks. Whatever you’re doing, we can help fuel your next step, and help you shout about your successes to the wider world.
Daniel Betty
Daniel Betty had his first taste of performance when the Taradale first fifteen rugby team was asked to be the cossack dancers in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. A memorable experience which led to him playing Mordcha, the friendly Innkeeper. This started a number of roles in community theatre groups across the region. As a musician he loves to play the guitar and sing so a move into musical theatre was a natural progression. What he found was community theatre and many of those in it created a platform for youth to explore a future career pathway into the creative sector.
Erica Toh
Emerging from a personal struggle with post-partum anxiety and depression, Erica found solace in the therapeutic creation of textured art. Inspired by social media, a simple tub of plaster, some tools, and canvases, creating her textured art became her gateway to self-expression.
Lucie Anderson
Lucie Anderson, based in Napier, is an artist who has carved out her unique niche in the vibrant world of alcohol ink painting. Specialising in this art form, she utilises the spontaneous and organic flow of alcohol ink to create stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces that captivate the viewer. Her artwork, known for being bold and vibrant, often reflects her deep love for nature and the environment.
Richard Brimer
Richard Brimer picked up his first camera as a teenager. Unenthused by school, at fifteen he apprenticed to a commercial photographer for whom his father worked as an accountant, where he focused on darkroom work and aerial photography. Drawn to people, Brimer worked for a portrait photographer before branching out on his own. He has had a successful freelance career spanning the past forty years.
Florence Charvin
Florence Charvin has a passion for photography, training her expert lens on just the right balance of dark and light to capture imagery that speaks to the viewer. Originally from France she made Hawke’s Bay her home at the turn of the century, making her by now an almost local.
Venus Hoy
V Hoy is a multidisciplinary artist who consciously defies definition. She combines technical skill with a depth of thought and feeling, understanding and articulation that permeates all she creates across a multitude of media. From her early study of fashion design, to her tattoo apprenticeship, to her Bachelor of Creative Practice at EIT’s IDEAschool, where she learned the wizardry of digital collage, building on her already significant painting and photography skills, V Hoy has immersed herself in the arts, giving all of herself to her many varied creative projects.