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Katherine Mansfield, the ‘Underworld’ an

As a scholar, enthusiast and society member I was recently fortunate enough to attend Katherine Mansfield, the ‘Underworld’ and the ‘Blooms Berries’ Symposium held in the UNESCO city of literature, Me...

Method and Manners

For many artists, finding your own studio space to create in can be a hard task. Artist Erin Forsyth and her sister, Leah, decided to take matters into their own ...

Dispatch from the Real World: The Office

From Monday to Friday, from nine until five-thirty, I’m at the office. I always swore I wouldn’t work in one. I would be a writer, or an artist, or any ...

Poetry - 'Fat Town'

Cameron Churchill is a brand new poet of the North Shore. Raised in Otago, he became aware of the works of deceased local poet James K Baxter and wrote (like ...

Crowning Glory

Apart from the usual ‘kitchen scissors to the fringe’ of childhood hairdressing, I seriously began cutting my own hair at about 15 years of age when I finished work as ...

A New Wave - The High Seas

Situated in the snug Beresford Square in central Auckland, a large glass frontage frames an airy light space with tastefully placed t-shirt and print racks, bookshelves and a huge desk ...

Young Folks - Issue 3

It’s a murmur that’s beginning to roar, as an invigorated old force sweeps through. It keeps the heart and the feet beating, it creates a sense of soul and belonging. ...

The Veils - Issue 2

Charismatic singer-songwriter and talented frontman Finn Andrews began his early musical career in Devonport before forming acclaimed band The Veils in London.All this before turning 20. Finn Andrews, son of ...

The Richmond Family Massacre

The anti-hero and his murderous fiancé stand and embrace amongst the crawling branches. The camera shifts to their lips as they trade vows and turn to the dark path, leaving ...

Girls in Bands

Why is it that male bands continue to grace the covers of our music magazines? Why is the stereotypical ‘groupie’ a young, excitable, obsessive female? Why is it that in ...

In Sound Mind

It's early November and I’m climbing the stairs to the Film Archive of Auckland, to view Sam Hamilton’s Sonar Realidad Interior, an installation of field recordings from the Amazon. It’s ...

Graphic Design in the Modern Age

When Morph asked the members of 9D design collective a few questions, they were graduating from university and on the brink of the collaborative exhibition. We asked these fresh young ...

Quiet Revolution - Art in the Hokianga

Morph is stepping out of her urban shoes and putting on her country boots, and heading north into the wilds of the Hokianga to a place that is home to ...

Political Powerup - Issue 6

Its election year, kids, and what will you be doing, come voting time? Maybe you’ve enrolled, but maybe you haven’t?I think back on that time not so long ago, when ...

Sew Your Own

There was a time when fashion was about conforming; think colonial New Zealand when men and women alike were stifled by clothing conventions. Back when practicality overrode personal taste and ...

Life in Focus - Issue 5

Returning from the UK in 2006 with his fine portfolio of photographic works, MORPH promptly snapped Nic Staveley up as chief photographer. Since then Nic has worked on 6 editions ...

Matthew Flinn - Issue 5

My first impression of Matthew Flinn is gleaned from the AIMES website. He smiles beatifically from the podium, his arms trophy-laden, having just won the AIMES Award for Education and ...

Dan the Moon Man - Issue 5

Computer scientist, actor, youth group leader and university tutor, Daniel Playne is a busy 20 year old with a PHD in his sights, and an AIMES award for Information Technology, ...

Guitars from the Leafy Suburbs

Behind Devonport’s sleepy façade beats a thriving pulse of the rock n’ roll kind. Often heralded by the media as a “phenomenon”, the Devonport music scene is stronger than ever, ...

Loren O'Sullivan - Issue 5

At the tender age of 18, AIMES Award winner for Service to Community winner Loren O’Sullivan has been youth voice advocate for the ministry of youth development programme ‘provoke’ as ...

Recipes of the Recession - Issue 6

As the economic downturn continues to bite and some of our favourite eating and socialising haunts become fiscally inaccessible, a few young gastronomes are beginning to bite back by baking ...

Arts on a Budget - Issue 6

I’m on a mission from Morph Head Office: to descend into the depths of Auckland’s arts-on-the-cheap underworld. (enter theme tune, yet to be composed, but being budget conscious, probably on ...

Cat among the Pigeons - Issue 3

Young Devonport artist Rob Tucker is well on his way to cementing a place in New Zealand art history. After delving into various career paths such as sailing and electrical ...

Facebook Focussed - Issue 6

I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with the social networking site, Facebook. Originally I shunned it, partially out of fear I’d become obsessed as my uni friends had, and partially because, ...

Prismatic Petrie - Issue 1

Popular culture has tended to stereotype Gothicism as a depressive and somewhat morbid movement. Fern Petrie, a gothic artist who has exhibited her extraordinary and diverse works at the Depot ...

Infinitely Irregular - Issue 4

From comical light boxes to historically accurate landscapes, from photographs that spill out onto the frame to a snapped skateboard refigured as Tokyo’s skyline; no idea is too random for ...

White Birds and Lemons - Issue 4

Since forming in 2005, White Birds and Lemons have played to ever-growing crowds in venues throughout Auckland; their live performances an electrifying combination of raw vocals and rich, rambling guitar ...

Creative Voices

Art is a voice. It is given attention, reflection and contemplation; rare things to receive. So if you are an artist wielding a public voice, why not say something useful? Art ...

Checked Out - Issue 1

The whole place was feeling this out of control flow of sheer self-expression, bouncing off the walls and filling up souls and shaking the floors and coming back at you ...