From small beginnings come beautiful things

Pauline Bern

For 25 years Pauline Bern mentored many Unitec students who are now leading lights in New Zealand jewellery. Linda Tyler finds out how Bern opened her students’ eyes to the social context of jewellery and its exciting potential as an expressive medium.

Entering Yvonne Todd’s parallel universe

Yvonne Todd, Amanda

With 150 works and extensive contextual material, including a gown room and old family photographs, Yvonne Todd’s survey exhibition lays bare the sources, influences and inspirations behind the work.