Morph is delighted to introduce hugely talented sound artist (or "sound experimenter") Jon Panther.  Jon is a MMusA sound art student at NZSM Victoria University of Wellington who is exploring dialogue between The Human Condition and The Environment it inhabits through transmission and auditory space as an interactive and participant medium. Whew!  This radical and exciting mind makes for an intriguing interview  [ ... ]

Erin Forsyth creates in many forms; as an an artist, curator, collaborator, project developer, artist space manager and cultural cartographer - a right whirlwind of creativity.  MORPH was intrigued and managed to nab a few moments with Erin to find out more...

(you can view Erin's personal work over at MORPH's Portfolio here)

1.    You are involved in a number of creative practices, can you let us know br [ ... ]

Talented artist Celeste Strewe loves film and art so she put the two together to become a body paint artist for the film & tv industries. She has since worked on the Australian TV hospital drama 'All Saints', 'Underworld 3 Rise of the Lycans' and WW2 feature film 'Journey of a Story'.

Here she answers MORPH's 10 Questions:

How did you decide to commit to body-painting as a profession?  Was there someone or some [ ... ]

The Naked & Famous’ debut single Young Blood hit the NZ charts in 2010 and hurtled to the number one spot, the first NZ band to do so in over three years. 

Since then the five piece has gone on to win the APRA Scroll, New Zealand’s most prestigious song-writing award, been nominated for the BBC Sounds of 2011 poll and most recently became the first independent band in over fifteen years to feature in the co [ ... ]

Meet Mark Howden, sound engineer, music producer, mentor, artist and musician.  Morph interviewed Mark for our monthly 10 Questions:

Listen to 'Pick A Sign' from Waht Record's upcoming album (release date September 2010).
www.myspace.com/wahtrecords

Hi Mark, can you tell us a little about what you do?
In terms of work I'm a music producer.  I manage a recording studio called Depot Sound, do a little teac [ ... ]

Karley Feaver is a self taught artist living in Auckland, born in New Plymouth.  Karley works across a broad range of disciplines including painting, sculpture and taxidermy. Karley’s works are held in private collections in the UK, Russia and throughout New Zealand.

Her recent project 'Interviews with Escapists' explores escapism, in particular humanity’s relationship to nature and its tendencies towards es [ ... ]

For this month's 10 Questions, Morph interviewed fantastically talented, Auckland based Flame Artist and Director Lakshman Anandanayagam.    

With a passion for all things involving visual arts, Lakshman spends a lot of his spare time moonlighting as a VJ and installation artist, creating, installing and performing visual backdrops for a variety of events including opening for Hextatic as part [ ... ]

In Morph's inaugural 10 Questions profile, we interview Alex Taylor, a young, talented multi-instrumentalist and composer from Devonport.