Artists of Aotearoa in Solidarity with Palestine: A Call For a Ceasefire

Prime Minister elect - Christopher Luxon

Rt. Hon. Chris Hipkins

Hon. Carmel Sepuloni

Hon. Nanaia Mahuta

We the undersigned include various Māori, Indigenous, Arab, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, non-religious, Queer, people of colour and tāngata Tiriti who are artists, writers and cultural workers. We are writing to urge you, our elected leaders, to call for an immediate ceasefire and condemn the Israeli Government for their blatant disregard for international human rights.

Since October 7th we have been seeing an unprecedented attack on the civilian population of Gaza by Israel, backed by the EU, UK and United States. On October 8th, Israel placed Gaza – the occupied territory it has long illegally blockaded – under complete siege, cutting off all food, water and fuel to the territory. Gaza consists of 2.2 million people, half of whom are children. This is a clear disregard of International Humanitarian Law and constitutes collective punishment under the Geneva Conventions. The situation is becoming exponentially worse as bombardment and the loss of civilian lives continues and the delivery of aid, food and fuel is blocked or severely restricted.

Ceasefires have been called by a range of humanitarian organisations across the globe. As we write this a ceasefire has been called by Amnesty International, the UN, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Human Rights Watch, Save the Children and OXFAM. We are watching a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe, and we as global citizens can no longer remain quiet. We have come together as artists, writers, musicians and cultural workers to make the demand for an immediate ceasefire at the very least, and call on our government to do its part in calling for an end to this bombardment.

In writing this letter in support of the Palestinian people of Gaza we call on our leaders to demand:

1. An immediate ceasefire to prevent the deaths of more Palestinians and to allow for dignified burials of the deceased. The morgues in Gaza are so overflowing that mass graves have been dug and the risk of disease outbreak is high.

2. The expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador and the United States Ambassador from our country should they not implement an immediate ceasefire.

3. The lifting of the siege to restore water, food and fuel, medical supplies and humanitarian aid, and the protection of medical facilities.

4. The facilitation of safe passage for the critically ill and those who wish to find safety, and permitting the entry of medical and rescue teams. We want to make clear we stand against the forced displacement of Palestinian civilians to areas outside of Palestine.

5. Ending any and all foreign military aid to Israel.

6. The recognition of the State of Palestine and ending Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime. We support the right of return to Palestinian people who have been dispossessed of their lands since 1948.

We are hugely concerned also for Palestinians living in Occupied Palestinian territories, especially the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but also within Israel itself. In these areas, over 120 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) and armed illegal settlers. Within the Occupied West Bank (OWB) a number of settlements have been attacked and bombed by aircraft, including the Jenin refugee camp. Almost 1500 Palestinians in the OWB have been detained. Many of these Palestinians are employed within Israel and the OWB. We call on the western community and the New Zealand government to explicitly call these actions out and for elected officials to condemn Israel for these acts of brutality. We ask the New Zealand government to call for the release of all hostages and prisoners.

The attacks on the 7th of October, resulting in many Israeli deaths, was a tragedy. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. This attack happened against the backdrop of a 75-year long illegal occupation of Palestinian land and denial of Palestinian self-determination. The current collective punishment of the people of Gaza is completely unjustified and is a continuation and escalation of decades of persecution and purging by the Zionist regime of Israel. We believe that all life is sacred, but in the words of the late Palestinian academic Edward Said, “In sheer numerical terms, in brute numbers of bodies and property destroyed, there is absolutely nothing to compare between what Zionism has done to Palestinians and what, in retaliation Palestinians have done to Zionists”.

We ask for the New Zealand media and the New Zealand public to condemn what we are seeing, which is a genocide. We ask them to call for an ending of this siege, and for the dismantling of the apartheid conditions that have been enforced upon Palestinian people over decades. In 2022, Amnesty International found that Israel imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across all areas under its control: in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and against Palestinian refugees. This amounts to apartheid as prohibited in international law. These punitive laws, policies and practices are intended to maintain this system of persecution and control over Palestinians. These actions have left them fragmented geographically and politically, frequently impoverished, and in a constant state of fear and insecurity.

We reject and utterly condemn the rise in anti-Palestinian, anti-Islamic, and anti-Arab violence everywhere. We also condemn the rise in punishment of those who support Palestinian liberation, including artists, writers, academics and everyone who has lost work and opportunities for supporting Palestine.

We reject and utterly condemn the rise in anti-Semitic violence. We also acknowledge that standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people is not anti-Semitism. Zionism is not Judaism. Zionism is a form of racism and is a colonial ideology that does not represent the views and practices of all Jewish people throughout the world.

All people whether they are Muslim, Christian, Jewish or non-religious deserve to live with dignity and freedom, especially the 3,257 children who at this time of writing have been reported as killed, which include 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank and 29 in Israel. It is estimated that 8,000 people have been killed in Gaza, as well 1,400 people in Israel. These are not just numbers, but people who had dreams, funny quirks, favourite foods and who loved and were loved by their families.

These aren’t just numbers.

Everyone - all peoples in the holy land - deserves to live safely, without the fear of death and destruction.

Signed by Muslim, Arab, Māori, Jewish, Indigenous, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, non-religious, Queer, People of Colour and Tāngata Tiriti artists, writers, researchers and cultural workers from across the motu.

This petition, signed by over 1000 artists including Jane Campion, Chelsea Winstanley, Tayi Tibble, Nigel Borell, Rachel House, and Chris Tse is calling for an immediate ceasefire and political solidarity with occupied Palestine. It was sent to the New Zealand Government on Thu 2 Nov, 2023.

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Signed by:

A.J. Doak (Pākehā) musician

Aaliyah JM

Aaliyah Zionov (Jewish), musician.

Abby Cunnane (Pākehā), curator and writer, director at The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space.

Abby Howells (Pākehā) writer, and comedian

Abid Rahman aka ABRZY (Artist)

Abigail Bakker (Filipino/Pākehā) Artist / Designer.

Abigail Johnson (Pākehā), Writer

Adeline Marteil (French, Jew) designer

Adriana Che Ismail (Muslim, Asian), poet, writer.

Aeron Balgemino (Filipino), artist, designer

Afrina Razi (Muslim, Asian), photographer.

Age Pryor, musician

Ahi Nyx (Te Āti Awa me Ngāti Raukawa), artist and kairaranga.

Ahilapalapa Rands (Kanaka Maoli, Fijian, Samoan, Cook Island, Pākehā), artist and co-founder of Moana Fresh.

Ahmed Youssef (Egyptian) Actor & Artist

Āhua Collective (QTBIPOC Arts Collective)

Aidan Shannon Knight (Pākehā), Writer, Filmmaker

Aidee Walker, (Pākeha) Actor, Director, Writer.

Ailsa Coulson, (Pākehā, British) artist.

Aimee Renata (Ngāpuhi), Musician

Ainslea Sherwin (Māori) Aspiring ECE teacher

Aisha Johan (Minangkabau, Muslim, Tauiwi) Designer

Alannah Pirrit

Alayne Dick (Pākehā) Writer, Performer

Albert Purcell (Sāmoan/Tongan), Musician.

Alena Kavka (Pākehā), writer, curator.

Alesha Ahdar (Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Arawa & Samoa), multi-disciplinary storyteller, theatre programmer

Alex Huber (Pākehā) musician, visual artist

Alex Lodge (pākehā), writer

Alexander Borgers (Pakeha), Producer

Alexander L. Brown (Chinese/Pākehā) Visual Artist

Alexander Martyn (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Arts Coordinator

Alice Agnes (Pākehā) DJ/producer, promoter. Pōneke-based.

Alice Alva, (Aotearoa, New Zealand), Artist and educator

Alice Cameron (Te Whānau-a-Apanui & Pākehā), supporter of Indigenous rights

Alice Canton (Chinese/Pākehā), Theatremaker, Artist.

Alice May Connolly (Pākehā), Actor

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki) Scholar, Poet, Irredentist, Māmā

Alisha Reddy (Fiji-Indian) Artist.

Alison Studans (Pākehā) Musician

Alistair Deverick (Pākeha), musician

Aliyah Winter (Pākehā) Artist

Allie Cuadros, designer

Ally Lase (Samoan) Photographer/ Film Production/Producer.

Aloali’i Tapu (Samoa) choreographer and dancer co-director of Ta’alil

Always Becominging (Pākehā), writer, publisher.

Alyssa Medel, (Filipino), filmmaker and theatre producer

Amal Abdullahi (Somali, Muslim) student, writer, podcaster

Amanda Black (Tuhoe, Whakatohea, Te Whanau a Apanui), scientist, researcher, educator

Amanda Hunt (Pākehā), Poet.

Amanda Jane Robinson (Pākehā), filmmaker and writer.

Amber Copland (Pākehā-Scots, New Zealand), Registered Nurse.

Amber Johnson, ( Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa, Pākehā), musician.

Amelia Jacobson (Pākehā) disabled artist, writer.

Amelia Kirkness (Pākehā), student, writer, and editor.

Amie Mills (Pākehā)

Amiria Lee Pihema Williams (Ngāpuhi, Waikato-Tainui) artist, writer, librarian

Ammon Hāwea Apiata (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāti Koata), writer and researcher

Amy Macaskill (Kāi Tahu), Taonga Puāwai

Amy Marguerite (Pākehā) writer.

Amy Pennington (Pākehā, American) Researcher and Somatic Therapist

Amy Potenger (Pākehā), artist.

Amy Weng (Cantonese, Tauiwi) writer, and curator at The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space.

Ana Chaya Scotney (Tūhoe, Jewish) Actress, Writer, Musician, Film Maker, Theatre Make

Ana Hislop (Kāi Tahu) artist.

Ana Iti (Te Rarawa, Pākehā), artist.

Anapela Polata’ivao Samoa/actor/director

Anastasia Burn, (Pākehā), Artist-Designer

Anastasiya Baranova (Pākehā, Ukrainian, Russian) Designer, Photographer.

Andi Crown (Pākehā, tangata Tiriti) Arts Photographer and Actor

André Te Momo (Ngāti Raukawa, Te Rarawa)

Andrea Low (Hawai‘i, Samoa, iTaukei, Saku), curator.

Andy Mathieson (Pākehā), music producer, DJ

Ang Nayyar, Auckland, NZ, artist.

Angel C. Fitzgerald (Pākehā), artist, facilitator at play_station artist run space.

Angeline Loo (Chinese Malaysian) Filmmaker

Anisha Sankar (Indian Tamil), writer.

Anita Fontaine (New Zealander- Creative Director)

Anna Bensky (Pākehā, Ashkenazi Jewish descent), artist.

Anna Fay, (Ngāti Porou), researcher & writer

Anna Gardner (Pākehā), exhibition maker

Anna Perry (Pākehā), Early Childhood Teacher, Artist, Mama.

Anna Pinenga Coddington (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue), musician

Anna-Marie Mirfin (Pākehā), artist

Annabel McKinnon (Pākehā) Artist, Creative Arts Therapy student.

Anne Kennedy (Pākehā), writer, teacher.

Anneka Scholtz (South African) Arts worker, curator.

Anoushka Akel (Pākehā, Lebanese), artist

Anthea Nadine Visage (Paakeha, Aotearoa), child abuse advocate & trauma researcher

Anto Yeldezian, Armenian (born Iraq, Tāmaki raised), artist.

Antonia Barnett McIntosh (Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) composer-performer, sound artist, editor, curator

Apela Bell (Samoan), photographer.

Aperahama Hurihanganui (Te Arawa, Te Tai Rāwhiti, Wairarapa), cultural advisor.

Arapeta Hākura (Whanunga, Ruanui, Mahuta, Koata, Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngai Tohianga, Motemote, Te Aupouri, Porou, Tarara, Crawford, Norway), Artist, Academic

Arawhetu Berdinner (Te Arawa) Artist.

Archi Banal, (Filipino), designer and musician

Ardit Hoxha (Kosova, Aotearoa NZ) artist and writer.

Aria McInnes (Pākehā) artist, designer

Ariadne Baltazar, actor

Ariana Belen Palacios Jimenez

Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu) - NZ Arts Laureate, musician, writer, composer.

Arielle Walker (Taranaki, Ngāruahine, Ngāpuhi, Pākehā), artist, writer, and maker.

Arlo Gibson (Pākehā) Actor, writer, live artist

Arlo Green, (Muslim, Middle Eastern) actor.

Aroha Novak (Ngāti kahungunu, Ngāi te Rangi, Tūhoe), artist.

Arpége Taratoa (Ngāi-te-Rangi, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Rārua), Creative Director/Freelance Writer/Cultural Advisor - publications.

Arthur Hon Sheng (Malaysian, Muslim) consultant, photographer.

Ary Jansen (Pākehā), Artist, Musician

Ary Jansen, artist, musician

Ash Davida Jane (Pākehā), writer, editor, publisher at Tender Press

Ashleigh Jade Fata, (Ngāti Makirangi, Tainui, Samoa) Artist

Ashleigh Taupaki (Ngāti Hako, Samoan) artist.

Ashleigh Wallace - artist, music manager, songwriter.

Ashleigh Young (Pākehā), writer and editor

Atareta Rerekohu Black (Māori - Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Tūhoe / Tā Imi Moriori) Ringa toi, Kaupapa Māori Advisor.

Atticus Dale-Haigh (Pākehā, English) Writer, Artist, Poet

Audrey Baldwin (tauiwi, Zimbabwean) Artist, curator, producer.

Ava Diakhaby (Senegalese British) Actress

Ava Williams (Ngāpuhi), writer

Avara Moody, (Te Rarawa, Waikato Tainui, Samoa, Europe), designer and ceramicist.

Aych McArdle (Pākehā, Queer, Trans, Disabled) Activist and Creative.

Ayesha Green (Kāi Tahu, Ngā Kahungunu) artist

Ayla Collin (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Rangitāne Wairarapa, Raukawa ki te Tonga) art girlie.

Bailey Poching (Ngāti Whatua ki Kaipara, Samoa, Torres Strait Islands, Indonesia) Filmmaker, Actor, Writer, Comedian.

Bailey Simpson, (Pakēhā), artist and fine art framer.

Barbara Else (Pākehā) writer, editor

Beatriz Carbonilla (Filipino) - designer.

Becky Hemus (Pākehā), Editorial Director, The Art Paper and Art News Aotearoa

Becky Manawatu (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha), writer.

Bella Florence (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mutunga o Whare Kauri, Lebanese) artist.

Bella Guarrera, (Pākehā), Illustrator

Bella Kalolo-Suraj (Samoan,Tongan,Ngāti Porou) Artist, Singer, Music mentor, Actor.

Bella Wilson (Pākeha), Dancer, Choreographer, Director, Dance Teacher

Ben Knight (Pākehā) Musician.

Bena Jackson (Pākehā), artist.

Benjamin Sawrey, (NZ European), Sustainability Engineer

Beth Hilton (Pākehā) Artist

Bethany Rogers (British) Writer

Bex Stubbs, (Tangata Tiriti, Scottish, Jewish) artist, educator, conservationist, mother

Billie Staples, (Pākehā), artist, writer and actor

Bonni Luafutu Tamati (New Zealand born Samoan) Operations Manager for Samoa House Library.

Braden McMahon (Pākehā, tattooer)

Brandon Haru (Maori) Musician, Music

Brannavan Gnanalingam (Sri Lankan Tamil, tauiwi), writer

Brenda Dwane, (Vaka Takitumu, Mangaia, Rimatara, Pākehā), teacher-librarian and musician

Brian Bargh, (Pākehā), editor and writer.

Briana Jamieson (Pākehā) Painter, Writer, Publisher

Briar Grace-Smith (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hau) Writer, Director ONZM.

Briar Lomas (pākehā), designer + artist.

Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi) artist, curator.

Bridget Riggir-Cuddy (Pākehā) Arts worker.

Brigit Kelly, actor

Brita McVeigh (Pākehā) Story Consultant, Acting Consultant, Artist

Bronte Heron (Pākehā), writer and poet

Bronwyn Ensor (Pākehā) Actress

Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (Pākehā) artist, writer, Co-Director Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand.

Brooke Pou (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi), Curator, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.

Bruce Connew, photographer, artist.

Bryony Puketapu, (Te Āti Awa me te Kuki Airani), Ringatoi

Byron Coll (Pakeha) Photographer/Actor

Cadence Chung (New Zealand Chinese, Pākehā), Poet, composer, singer

Cahaya Milne (Pakeha, Malay) Print Maker and Photographer.

Caitlin Jolley, (Ngāti Mahuta) art student and aunty

Caitlin Ramsay (Pākehā/Scottish), artist.

Caity Briggs, (Pākehā, Irish, Queer) artist.

Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua (Nofoali’i, Samoa; Guangdong, China; Pālagi) writer, curator, educator

Camille Balducci (Pākehā) maker.

Caoimhe McKeogh (Irish Pākehā) writer.

Carla Camilleri, (Maltese), musician

Carmel Aroha Salmanzadeh (Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Ira, Ngāti Porou, Waikato-Tainui, Samoan, Chinese, Iranian) Student, Artist

Caroline Park-Tamati (Samoan) Artist Ladi6.

Carrie Rudzinski, writer

Caryl Loria Illana (Philippines: Tagalog, Ilocano, Visaya); actor, singer, director, and writer.

Carym Wharerau — (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa, Tainui) Graphics Designer & Dancer.

Casper de Wit (UK, NZ), musician

Cass Makoni (Niuean) writer

Cassandra Barnett (Raukawa, Ngāti Huri), writer, artist, educator, mama.

Cassandra Tse (Chinese, Pākehā), playwright, theatre director and performer.

Cassie Hart (Kāi Tahu)

Cassie Low (Hawaiʻi, Sāmoa, Viti, Kuki ʻĀirani, Pākehā) Content creator, māmā.

Catarina de Peters Leitao (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui), writer, Kairuruku Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Project - Experience Wellington.

Catherine Griffiths (Pākehā) artist, typographer, designer.

Catherine Macdonald (Pākehā) Artist

Cecelia Kumeroa, Te Āti Haunui a Paparangi, Multi-disciplinary artist

Cecelia Wacokecoke, (Fijian & Tongan), student

Celine Frampton, (Pākehā), Artist.

Chanel Brightwell (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Pākehā) Artist

Chantelle Burgoyne (Samoa, NZ), writer and director

Charade Honey Artist

Charlotte Benoit (Pākehā) Artist, Designer

Charlotte Colgan (Pākehā), Queer musician, writer.

Charlotte Huddleston (Pākehā of Scottish, Irish, English descent) curator, maker, arts worker.

Charlotte Parallel (Pākehā, Irish) Arts worker.

Charlotte Roberts (Ngāti Awa)

Charlotte Thornton (Pākehā), writer and artist

Chelsea Winstanley (Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi) Filmmaker.

Chelsie Preston Crayford (Pākeha, Tangata Tiriti, Ngāti Kāhungunu ki te Wairoa) Actor, Filmmaker.

Cheska Brown (Asian), Photographer.

Chloe Cull (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi te Ruahikihiki), educator, curator, writer, Pouarataki Curator Māori ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū Christchurch Art Gallery.

Chloe Hill (Pākeha), Stylist and Editor of Cool Pretty Cool

Chloe Innes, (Pōneke) designer

Chloē Reweti (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Porou), Designer

Chris Corson-Scott (Pākehā), Artist

​​Chris Cudby (Pākehā) - musician, artist, writer.

Chris Holdaway (Pākehā) poet, translator, publisher, Director of Compound Press.

Chris Hutchinson (Tainui) Artist, illustrator, designer

Chris McBride (Pākehā / Irish) Artist, Curator.

Chris Morley-Hall (Pākehā) - Creative Producer.

Chris Parker, writer and comedian

Chris Price, poet

Christel Chapman (Sāmoan, Pākeha) Actor

Christian Dimick, Pakeha, Artist

Christiane Shortal (Pākehā), visual artist

Christina Pataialii, (Samoan, Pākehā), Artist

Christine Anderson, lawyer

Christine Hedlund

Christoph El Truento (Pākeha), Artist, Producer, DJ.

Christopher Brown (Pākeha, Māori), Architectural Designer

Christopher Ulutupu (Samoan, Niuean, German) artist.

Chye-Ling Huang, (Chinese Pakeha) Actor, writer, director, creative director of Proudly Asian Theatre.

Cileme Venkateswar (Indian (Tamil & Bengali) Tauiwi), writer, academic

Cindy Zeiher (Pākehā) academic, poet, cellist

Cinta Damerell (Indonesian, pākehā, tauiwi, filmmaker, multi-disciplinary conscious creative)

Cinta Damerell (Indonesian, tauiwi) artist, film maker.

Claire Beynon (Pākehā) Artist, writer

Claire Patolo (Samoa) Filmmaker

Claire Watson (Pākehā) writer, project/arts worker, filmmaker.

Clare McNamara, (Pakeha, Irish), Artist and Musician

Cole Yeoman (Pākehā), photographer, video journalist.

Colleen Maria Lenihan (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi), writer.

Comfrey Sanders, (UK, NZ), actor and writer

Connie Brown (Pākehā) writer, editor.

Connor Ingle/King Komodo (Ngāitai) Artist, musician.

Connor Ward (Pākehā) Architectural Graduate + Photographer

Conor Bowden (Pākehā), Filmmaker, Editor.

Constance McDonald (Pākehā), photographer, artist, writer.

Cora-Allan (Ngāpuhi, Ngātitumutumu and Niue) Artist.

Cory Champion (Pākehā), musician, composer.

Courtney Dawson (Ngāti kurī, Ngāti Amaru) Comedian

Cushla Dillon (Pākehā), filmmaker, editor, writer.

Cushla Donaldson (Pākehā), artist, researcher

Daija K. Verrian (Yoruba, Cherokee, Ngāti Kahungunu, Hay (Armenian)) screenwriter, actor, director, poet.

Daisy Sheehan, (Pākehā), Artist

Damian Leith (Kuki Māori, Pakeha) Production Designer/ Art Director

Damien Levi (Te Atihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Pākehā) independent publisher and Lead Editor, bad apple

Dan Arps (Pākehā) Artist

Dani Yourukova (Pākehā) writer

Daniel Johann Lines (Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Maui), independent musician

Daniel John Corbett Sanders, (Jewish, Dutch) artist and curator. Director, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.

Daniel Nodder (Pākehā), Artist, Performer

Daniel Vernon (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa), Cartoonist/Musician

Daniella Lim-Yip, (Chinese, NZ), student

Danielle Nicholson (Pakeha, Aotearoa), actor/writer

Danny Bultitude (Pākehā, Jewish), writer and director's assistant

Daphne Simons, (Dutch), artist / teacher

Dave Wilson (Pākehā) Musician, Composer, Researcher, Writer

David Dallas (Samoa/NZ) Musician

David Le Fleming ( Pākehā) artist

David Morgan (Kai Thai), musician

Deborah Fletcher (Pākehā) Dancer, Choreographer, Creative Producer, Dance Teacher.

Deborah Papāli’i-Curtin (Sapapalii, Lefaga, Safotu, Sāmoan; Pālagi) Musician, & Vocalist

Dee Hehewerth (Pākehā), student, arts worker

Delilah Te Aōrere Parore-Southon (Te Roroa o Ngāpuhi-nui-tono me Te Kuihi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Pūkenga) writer, artist and kaiwhakahaere.

Deme Te Atawhai Scott (Taranaki, Ngāti Awa) Photographer

Deva Mahal (African American, New Zealander), Musician, Producer, Composer.

Diana Ruri (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tamainupō) writer

Diana Ruri (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tamainupō), writer

Dimitri Thamel (Sinhalese / Tamil) , architectural designer and artist.

Dinithi Nelum Bowatte (Sri Lankan Tauiwi) writer, PhD student.

Diva Blair ( Pakeha NZer) artist and film contractor

Divyaa Kumar, (Pākehā, Fijian-Indian), artist and writer

Diya Beharie (South African Indian) BCS graduate, writer, creative director/videographer/photographer, filmmaker, mental health advocate.

Dominic Barlow, (Ngāti Maniapoto), Disability Support Worker

Dominic Hoey (Pākehā), writer

Dominic Ona-Ariki, actor

Donna Demente, (Pākehā), visual artist.

Donogh Rees (Pakeha) actress

Doris Zhang

Dr Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor (Ngāi Tahu, Pākehā) Writer, Researcher

Dr Lorena Gibson (Pākehā), writer, researcher and musician

Dr Marama Muru-Lanning (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato/Tainui), writer

Dr Melissa Laing (Pākehā) Artist, producer, researcher.

Dr. Kirsty Baker (Tangata Tiriti, Scottish) Curator, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Writer.

Duncan Allan, (Pākehā, Aotearoa), writer and lawyer

Dwayne Diack (Ngāti Porou), musician

Dylan Thuraisingham, actor

Eamonn Marra, (Pākehā), writer

East, (Ngāti Whakaue of Te Arawa, NZ) , Visual Artist

Edith Amituanai, Artist

Edward Lust (Pākehā) artist.

Eefa Jauhary, writer and activist

Eilidh Pūrewa Huggan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata) Activist, student & photographer

Elana Tkatch (Jewish Canadian/ Aotearoa)

Elayna Jo Amezcua (Mexican, Pākehā), Artist, Designer.

Eleanor Grant, (Pākehā), technical writer

Eleanor Strathern (Pākehā, UK), Theatre Producer

Eleanor Woodhouse (Pākehā), writer, teacher.

Eli Matthewson, comedian

Eli Orzessek (Pākehā), journalist, artist.

Elisabeth Pointon (Indo-Fijian, Pākehā) Artist, Gallery Manager, and Professional Teaching Fellow.

Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoa, Tokelau) Architectural Designer, Artist, Writer.

Elizabeth Hocking (Wales, New Zealand), musician

Elizabeth Morton (Aotearoa) - writer and researcher.

Elizabeth Winders (Pākehā) actor, filmmaker.

Ella Casey (Queer, Pākehā) artist, photographer, student.

Ella Lilley-Gasteiger (Pākehā) Architect

Ella Reid (Ngāti Porou, Aotearoa) Tooth Gem technician/artist

Ella Sutherland (Pākehā), Artist.

Ella Williams (Canadian/ Pākehā) artist, dancer

Ella Yiannoutsos (Greek, Pākehā) Playwright, Actor.

Elle Loui August (Pākeha) writer, researcher & exhibition-maker.

Ellen Hackett

Eloiza Montaña, From Uruguay, artist

Elyssia Wilson-Heti (Niuean, English, Irish, Welsh) Interdisciplinary Artist, Producer

Emele Ugavule (Nukunonu, Tokelau, Sauniveiuto, Deuba, Fiji based in Aotearoa), storyteller + academic

Emery North (Pākehā), writer.

Emi Pogoni (Japanese, Pākehā, Tauiwi), composer.

Emiko Sheehan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Unu Ngāti Kahu, Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Tahu Ngāti Whaoa, Japanese) Artist, Māmā.

Emilie Hope (scriptwriter, theatre maker & reviewer)

Emily Berryman (Pākehā), musician.

Emily Esterline, (Pakeha, NZ), artist

Emily Hartley-Skudder, (Pākehā), visual artist.

Emily Laws, Te Mahurehure of Ngāpuhi, writer/photohrapher

Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā), artist & researcher

Emily Siddell (Pakeha) glass/ceramic artist

Emily Writes (Pākehā), writer.

Emma Barnes (Pākehā) writer.

Emma Blackett (Pākehā), writer, teacher.

Emma Fitts, pākehā, artist

Emma Gregory (Pākehā) Tattoo Artist, Illustrator.

Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu), writer.

Emma McIntyre (Pākehā, Ngāti Maru)

Emma Neale (Pākehā) editor, writer.

Emma Ng (Cantonese, Tauiwi), Writer, arts worker.

Emma Sidnam (Christian, Asian) Writer.

Eric Soakai (Samoan/ Tongan) artist, poet.

Erina Jamieson

Eseta Le’au (Samoa, Tuvalu) Poet.

Essa Ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Waikato Tainui, Ngaati Puukeko, Te Arawa, Horwood, Clan Gunn) poet.

Esther Leilua - Ngāti Awa, Aotearoa. Savai’i, Upolu, Sāmoa. Ha’apai, Tonga - Writer, filmmaker.

Esther Stephens (Pākehā, actor, singer)

Esther Tooth, Pākehā/English, Painter and Set Dresser

Etanah Lalau-Talapa (Afega, Sa'anapu Samoa based in Te Awakairangi), Artist.

Etienne Wain, (Malaysian-Chinese, Pākehā), writer, poet and musician

Eve de Castro-Robinson (Aotearoa, composer)

Faber Samuel Morrow (Pākehā), producer/DJ & Label owner (CAS Records).

Felix Giles (Pakeha, NZ), visual artist and house painter

Fergus Porteous (Ngāti Maniapoto) writer.

Fiona Amundsen (Pākehā), artist

Fiona Jack (Pākehā), Artist, Associate Professor at The University of Auckland.

Flo Wilson (Pākehā, Tauiwi), Musician, artist.

Flora Feltham (Pākehā) writer and weaver

Flora Reilly-Davis (Pākehā) Jeweller

Frances Carter (Pākehā), Photographer, filmmaker.

Frances Libeau (Pākehā), artist

Frances Stachl (Ngāpuhi) Jeweller.

Francesca Georgia Pietkiewicz Nutsford (Pākehā, Polish) Queer Editor, Writer, Poet, Podcastera

Francis McWhannell (Pākehā), curator, gallerist, writer.

Frankie Bradford, (Pākeha, Ngāti Maniapoto), Student and Artist

Frankie J Barraclough ( Pākehā, Irish, Tyke, Loiner) Artist, World Builder, Comic Lover.

Fraser Walker (Pākehā, Wampanoag, Pequot) Artist, Musician, Videographer.

Fravash Irani

Fred Small (Pākehā), artist, facilitator at play_station artist run space.

Freddy Matariki Carr (Ngati Awa, Ngai Tuhoe) kaitiaki.

Freya Daly Sadgrove (Pākehā), writer and performer

Freya Markula, (Pākehā), artist and writer.

Gemma Begg (Pākehā), Dance Teacher

Gemma Coutts (Pākehā), academic and māmā

Geneva Alexander-Marsters (Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani mai Waikaremoana), Season Gallery Manager and Musician

Genista Jurgens (Pākehā), Comms Director for Contemporary HUM

George Fowler (Pākeha) Performer

George Turner (Pakeha) Artist, Musician

George Watson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Mutunga, Moriori) artist.

Georgette Brown (Pākehā), artist & musician.

Georgia Arnold (Pākehā) Artist, Art Educator

Georgia Currie (Pākehā), fashion designer and consultant

Georgie Hill (Pākehā), artist.

Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, (Iranian), writer and filmmaker

Gilbert Ostini (Pākeha, Christian) Member of Common Grace Aotearoa, writer

Gina Cole (Fijian, Aotearoa), writer

Gina Kiel - visual artist & mother - Te Whanganui-a-Tara - (Pākehā/Irish/Scottish/Dutch).

Giovanni Tiso (Pākehā), writer and editor.

Gitanjali Bhatt, (British-Indian Gujarati, Tauiwi). Artist.

Goretti Chadwick (Samoa), Actor, writer.

Grace Augustine, Pākeha, theatre director and drama teacher

Grace Crawshaw-McLean (Pākehā) Artist.

Grace Darkins (tangata Tiriti), policy advisor

Grace Hood-Edwards (Pākehā, Welsh, English, Irish) writer/filmmaker

Grace Iwashita-Taylor (Samoan, English, Japanese) poet, writer, theatre maker.

Grace Sinclair (Pākehā), Librarian, Arts Worker.

Grace Verweij (Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri) Curator, promoter, musician

Greer Perenara (Cook Island, Samoan) Singer and Performer

Gregory O'Brien, poet, painter and essayist

Gregory Thomas, (Pākehā), Printmaker & educator

Greta Gregory (pākehā) actor and casting director

Greta Menzies, Pākeha, artist

Gwen Isaac (Pākeha, Welsh) Filmmaker.

Gwen Lin (Chinese), Creative, Writer, Director.

Gwynneth Porter (Pākehā), writer, editor and Librarian and Christchurch Women's Prison.

H-J Kilkelly (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe) Producer, Māmā.

Hamahuna Hawkins (Ngati Kahangunu, Ngati Wai)

Hāmiora Bailey (Ngāti Porou Ki Harataunga, Ngāti Huarere) Artist, Curator.

Hamish Boyle, (Pākehā), actor, writer, graphic designer

Hamish Coleman, (Pākehā), Visual Artist

Hamish Parkinson (Pākehā) Performer, writer, director, illustrator

Han Law, ( NZ resident, Malaysian Chinese), Animation producer, creative.

Hana Burgess (Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa, Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Researcher, Artist.

Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngāti Hurai (Jewish)), Writer, artist, Museum curator Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Museum. Co-facilitator, Kei te pai press and most importantly, Māmā.

Hana Tuwhare (Ngāpuhi), Weaver, Writer, Speech-language Therapist

Hannah Broatch (Pākehā), Architectural Graduate

Hannah Croucher (pakeha, lawyer)

Hannah Davis-Gray (Pākehā) arts worker, artist

Hannah Ireland (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Pākehā), Maker

Hannah Kelly (NZ), actor

Hannah Lees (Scottish, Pākehā), writer.

Hannah Lynch (Pākehā, Ngati Porou, Samoa) - Artist.

Hannah Mae Jerao (Filipino, Queer), student, creative.

Hannah Maurice, artist

Hannah Mettner (Pākehā), queer writer, PhD candidate, editor.

Hannah Rose (Waikato Tainui, Te Ātiawa, Ngaati Rangi, Ngaati Pou), shearer.

Hannah Salmon (Pākehā) Artist, Musician.

Hannah Watkinson (Pākehā) artist

Hannah Wilson (Pākehā), student, writer.

Hannah Woods (Pākehā/Tauiwi) Filmmaker, Costume Designer, Creative, Kaiako.

Harold Coutts (Pākehā) writer, poet.

Harriett Maire (Swiss-Pākehā), director

Harry Culy (Pākehā), artist.

Hash Perambalam (Eelam Tamil), Filmmaker

Hattie Salmon (Pākehā) writer, poet.

Hayden Pyke, (Pakeha of Jewish whakapapa), writer and social worker

Hayley James (Paakeha) poet, librarian.

Haz Forrester (Pākehā) musician.

Hazel Jiwoo Oh (Korean) Performer

Hebe Kearney (Pākehā), writer and librarian.

Hector McLachlan (Pākehā) Musician

Heidi Brickell (Ngāti Apakura / Rongomaiwahine / Ngāi Tara / Ngāti Kahungunu) Artist.

Helen Donnelly, (Pākehā), filmmaker & graphic designer

Helen Young-Loveridge (Pākehā), Designer & Stylist.

Helena May (Te Ātiawa, Pākehā) Artist, Performer, Choreographer

Helena Olsen-Arts, (Pākehā), Designer

Heleyni Pratley, (Greek, Cypriot, Aotearoa) Interdisciplinary Artist

Henrietta Harris (Pākehā), Artist

Henry Babbage (Te Rarawa, Pākehā), writer, designer

Hera Lindsay Bird (Pākehā) writer.

Hera Tautuku Orme (Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa, Pākehā) photographer

Hina Nasir (Pakistani, NZ), Freelance Digital Designer and Artist

Hiona Henare (Matawhaorua, Kurahaupō, Tanui), filmmaker.

Hollie Fullbrook (Pākehā, English) musician, songwriter.

Holly Chappell

Holly Davies (Samoan, Pākehā) Artist, Designer.

Holly Finch, Dance Artist, Pakehā Dutch

Holly Fletcher (Pākehā), Poet

Holly Sarah Burgess (Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa, Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Photographer

Holly Vaihu

Holly Walker (Pākeha, Scottish, Polish, English, Irish) Artist, Audience Engagement Coordinator New Zealand Portrait Gallery.

Holly Willson (Pākekā), writer, editor, Lieu Journal.

Hone Kouka (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa, Kai Tahu), MNZM writer, theatremaker, filmmaker

Honey Brown (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Taranaki) Access Coordinator at The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space, Artist.

Hope Kennedy-Smith, writer

Hope Ryu, (Korean-Malaysian, Aotearoa), zoology student and artist.

Htoo Paw Thin / Lazarus (Kayin Refugee), writer, multidisciplinary artist.

Huia Osborne (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri) artist

Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho (Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Te Āti-Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungungu, Ngāi Tahu, Fale’ula) artist, illustrator.

Hutch E Wilco (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā, Mā ohi), writer, curator, arts administrator.

Ian Munro (Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa), musician.

Ilish Thomas (Gujarati, Pākehā, Tauiwi) Artist, d.j

Imogen Taylor (Pākehā), artist.

Indiana Carder-Dodd (Ngāpuhi, Te Āti Awa, Pākeha) visual artist, dancer.

Isaac Martyn (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Pākehā) Playwright and actor.

Isaac Te Awa (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) Weaver, carver, curator.

Isabella McDermott, writer

Isabella Pachter, Artist

Isabelle Hoskyn, (US, NZ), screen writer, director, and producer, theatre lighting designer and board operator

Isis Jasmine (Tainui, Dutch), chef

‘Isope ‘Akau’ola (Tonga) - Artist, Dancer.

Israel Randell (Tainui), Curator.

J Max Fleury (Pākehā), artist, facilitator at play_station artist run space.

J. Wiremu Kane (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toro, Ngāti Manu, Te Māhurehure), Writer

Jack Buchanan, (pakeha), actor and musician

Jack Ellery (Pākehā) Artist.

Jack Gray (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Rarawa) dance artist and writer

Jack Panther (Pākehā), writer, musician

Jack Ritchie (Pākehā, Canadian), Jeweller.

Jack Woon, filmmaker

Jackie Lee Morrison, (Hong Kong Chinese, British), writer and editor

Jacob Tucker (Ngāti Apakura, Tainui), artist.

Jacqui Broughton (Muaūpoko, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa)
Ringatoi

Jacqueline Margetts, Pākehā, Artist, co-founder of Favour and Laurel Project Space Ōtepoti.

Jade Cavalcante (Tauiwi, Brazilian) artist, producer

Jade Perry (Pākehā) Student, Artist.

Jade Townsend (Te Ati Haunui-a-Paparangi, Ngati Kahungunu) Gallerist and artist

Jadin Leslie, (Ngāpuhi / Pākeha), Film Maker

Jahra Wasasala (Fijian/Pākehā) Artist, World-builder, Facilitator.

Jake Tabata (Japanese, Pākehā), writer, director, actor.

Jalaina Hitchen (Tongan, Samoan, Pakeha) Artist/weaver.

James Borrowdale (Pākehā), journalist and author.

James Cain (Pākehā) Playwright and theatre-practitioner

James Dobson (Pākehā), designer, owner Jimmy D.

James Sullivan, (Pākehā), Musician, Designer

James Wenley (Pākehā), theatremaker, writer

Jamie Berry (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāpuhi) Artist, Designer.

Jamie Jeffreys, (Taranaki, Aotearoa), fibre artist

Janaye Henry (Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa) comedian, writer, actor.

Jane Arthur (Pākehā), writer.

Jane Campion, (Pākehā), Film Writer and Director

Jane Groufsky (Pākehā), curator.

Jane Shearer - (Rongowhakaata) film maker.

Janeen Page (Pakeha), Mother and Potter.

Janet McAllister (Pākehā), writer

Janice Jones (Aotearoa) citizen, teacher, unionist

Jared Davidson (Pākehā), writer and archivist

Jared Ipsen (Paakeha), musician

Jasmine Leota

Jasmine O M Taylor (Pākehā) - Poet.

Jasmine Reynolds, (Auckland, New Zealand), dancer and university student.

Jasmine Tuiā (Sāmoa), artist, community navigator, Te Aho Mutunga Kore.

Jason Tamihana-Bryce (Kāti Māmoe), musician

Jason Teokotai Richards, (Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa), graphic designer.

Jazz dos Santos (Afro-Brazilian/American), Film Producer

Jazz Rawiri (Ngati whanaunga/Ngāti paoa), actor, director, theatre maker

Jean Teng, (Chinese-Malaysian), writer.

Jennifer Shields (tangata Tiriti), photographer, arts & events producer

Jeremy Mayall (Pākehā) composer, producer, multimedia artist, researcher

Jess Bailey (Pākehā), artist and writer.

Jess Clifford (Pākehā), writer, editor, curator.

Jess Nicholson (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Kāti Mamoe) Ringatoi Uku.

Jess Sayer (Pākehā, Ngāti Kahungunu) Writer, Actor.

Jess Scott, (Pākehā), Writer, stylist, owner of Bizarre Bazaar

Jess Stab (pakeha, artist, curator, performer, event manager)

Jessa Kaa te Pō Strachan, (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Waiora of Te Rarawa Kaiwhare) creative and activist

Jessica Hamilton, Visual Designer

Jessica Hinerangi Thompson- Carr (Ngāpuhi, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Pākehā), artist & writer.

Jessica Karamjeet, screenwriter, producer and comedian

Jessica Miku, (Japanese, Pākehā), artist and writer

Jessica Morgan, (Aotearoa), musician

Jessica O'Donoghue, (Pākehā), Filmmaker, Editor

Jessica Olivieri

Jessica Sanderson (Ngati Kahungunu, Te Atiawa, Pakeha) Director

Jessica Smith (Pākehā, British) writer, poet and painter

Jessica Webb ( Pākehā) artist

Jessie McCall, pākehā, choreographer

JieYing Cai (Jiangxi Chinese) Artist, Producer .

Jieying Cai, (Chinese) artist

Jim Pinckney aka Stinky Jim (Pākehā) broadcaster, dj, producer.

Jimmy Ma’ia’i (Sāmoa, Scotland) Artist.

Jin Fellet (Korean), Producer

JingCheng Zhao (Chinese, tauiwi) writer, arts and film worker.

Jinki Cambronero (Australian Filipino), photographer, designer, art director

Jo Bragg (Ngāti Porou) writer, poet, gender theorist.

Jo Randerson, (Pākeha, Denmark), artist, community worker and writer.

Joan Fleming (Pākehā), writer, lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, Nichiren Buddhist.

Joanna Cho (Korean) writer .

Joanna Mika-Toloa (Tainui, Samoan) Actress, Professional Singer, Performing Arts Teacher.

Johanna Cosgrove (Pākeha) Actor, Writer, Comedian

Johanna Knox (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Kahu ki Tauranga, Pākehā), writer

John Miller (Ngapuhi, Pākehā) Photographer.

John Murray (Pākehā) musician and educator.

Johnny Dimery (Pākehā) Jeweller

Jonathan Alexander Kennedy (Tauiwi) Artist

Jonny Potts (Pākehā), Writer and Actor

Jonny Waters (Pākehā), Visual Artist & Event Organiser

Jordan Davey-Emms (Pākehā), artist, curator.

Jordan Dickson (Pākehā) - Theatremaker.

Jordan Edwards, (Pakeha), musician

Jordan Windsor (tangata Tiriti) Filmmaker

Jordyn Te Ikā O Te Kopuā (Ngāti Keā Ngāti Tuarā) Proud Māmā

Josh Bradshaw, Pākehā, Visual Artist

Josh Nelson (Pākehā), illustrator.

Josh Yong (Malaysian Chinese, Pākehā), Documentary Filmmaker

Josiah Morgan (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto), writer and performer

Josie Shapiro, (Tauiwi), writer.

Joy Holley (Pākehā), writer.

Juanita Hepi. (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Kahungunu, Moriori, Ngātiwai, Ngā Puhi.) Artist, Producer, Director, Educator, Māmā.

Jude Dickinson-Smith (Pākehā), artist and writer.

Judy Darragh artist educator advocate

Judy McIntyre (Pakeha) artist

Juhyun (Korean, Buryat) digital artist

Julia Croft (Pakeha) performance artist & theatre maker

Julia Palm (Pākeha/Swedish) Designer.

Julie Zhu (Chinese), photographer, filmmaker.

Jungeun Lee (South Korean, NZ) textile artist

Justine Treadwell (Pākehā), researcher and technician, Te Aho Mutunga Kore.

K-Ci Williams, (Ngāti Tamaterā), writer and journalist

Kahu Kutia (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga a Hauiti) Writer, Artist, Journalist

Kaitlin Dedman, Artist

Kalia Regan (Filipino, Pākehā) Performer, Actor, Student

Kalyani Nagarajan, actor

Kane Laing (Pākehā) Artist, director of drive-thru gallery.

Karen Leef (He uri tēnei nō Te Rarawa, Ngā Puhi me Tau'tu Aitutaki), ringatoi

Karishma Grebneff (Fiji, New Zealand) actor and creative.

Karla Marie (Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, NZ)

Karleigh-Jayne Jones (Australian), artist

Kasi Valu (‘Eua, Lapaha, Ma’ufanga)

Kasish Prasad (Fijian Indian), student, artist.

Kat Lang (Pākehā), Artist, DJ, Curator.

Kat Walker Su’a Sagapolutele (Pākehā, South African born) Dancer, Choreographer, Educator

Kata Brown (Pākehā), artist

Katalaina Saute-Polata’ivao Samoa/Niuean/poet/actor

Kate Appleton (Pākehā), landscape architect, artist, creative.

Kate Aschoff (Pākehā) multimedia artist and poet.

Kate Battersby (Te Aitanga a Hauiti) photographer

Kate Bodger (Pākehā), writer.

Kate Fitzharris (Pākehā) artist.

Kate Megaw (Pākehā) Designer.

Kate Prior (Pākehā, tangata Tiriti) writer, filmmaker

Kate Woods (Pākehā), artist.

Katharine Losi Atafu-Mayo (Malie & Falelatai, Sāmoa and Mackenzie Clan, Scotland) Multidisciplinary Artist & Practitioner.

Kathryn Tsui (Cantonese Chinese) Artist.

Kathy Barry (Pākehā), Visual artist

Kathy McRae (Pākehā) director, actor, writer, teacher

Katie Cheer (Pākehā) designer, musician.

Katrina George (Sāmoan, Pākehā), Artist

Kauae Raro (Māori), Art collective.

Kaung Htet (Burmese, Asian), Graphic Designer, Photographer.

Kay Brierly, (Auckland, NZ), retail worker.

Kayleigh Haworth (English, Irish) Actor, Teacher and Writer.

Kayli Taylor (Pākehā), writer and researcher

Kazim Khan, (Pakistani-Indian, Aotearoa), Actor and Creative

Keana Paerata (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Whātua)

Kelvin Tse (Tauiwi, Lenapehoking/Aotearoa) artist and educator.

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan (Kāi Tahu) writer, producer, and organiser.

Keria Paterson (Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Tahu), musician

Kerry Ann Lee (Cantonese Tauiwi), Artist, Designer and Academic

Keshia Paulse (Awherika ki te tonga) Singer

Khadro Mohamed (Muslim, Somali), writer, poet.

Khailana Kendrick (Māori, Pākehā) singer, songwriter, music producer

Khye Hitchcock (Pākehā), writer, artist, curator.

kī anthony (Singaporean Indian and Chinese), poet

Kieran Stowers (New Zealand) Creative Director

Kimiora Reihana Te Momo (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahu) Artist

Kimmy Morris (Pākehā, Dutch) ceramicist.

Kiri Piahana-Wong (Ngāti Ranginui, Chinese, Pākehā) poet, publisher at Anahera Press, anthologist.

Kirsten Le Harivel (Scottish) writer and programme manager.

Kirsten McDougall, (Aotearoa), writer.

Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) writer and academic

Kitty Brown (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu) Creative, Māmā.

Koala Di, artist and musician.

Koha Tiffany Tucker, (Ngati Kahungunu Te Wairoa, Siksika, Pakeha.) Bookbinder and artist

Kōtuku Titihiua Nuttall (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations) writer and artist.

Kristen Calder (Pākehā, Scottish descent) Ceramic Artist

Kristi Illingworth, (Ngāpuhi), Writer

Kura Turuwhenua, (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe, Kāi Tahu, Moriori), Stand up comedian

Kyle Church (Pākehā) co-founder and producer of 1/200 podcast.

Kyra Lawler (Pākehā) writer, poet, tutor.

Lachlan Taylor (Pākehā), writer, editor.

Lanae Cable (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Maru ki Hauraki, Tūhoe), artist, researcher, māmā.

Larissa Goodwin, (Pākehā), artist.

Larissa Milsum - (Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Pākeha) Artist.

Latamai Katoa (Tongan, NZ) artist

Latifa Daud (Gujarati, Muslim), writer

Laura Allen (Tauiwi, Scottish), Artist

Laura Duffy, artist

Laura Vincent, (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Māhanga) writer

Laurence Sabrine (Filipino, NZ), Fashion Designer/Stylist

Le Moana Arts (Sāmoa, Aotearoa) Dance, Theatre, Education, Arts Management, and Production.

Leafā Wilson (Samoan New Zealander), Artist.

Leah Dodd (Jewish) writer, poet.

Leah Mizrahi, Jewish nz, film

Leala Faleseuga (Sāmoan/Dutch), artist

Leanne Radojkovich, (Pākehā), Writer

Lee Smith-Gibbons (Pākehā) writer, actor

Leigh Minarapa (Ngāti Rangitihi) writer, director

Leo Bond (Pākehā) musician.

Leon Kirkbeck (Pākehā), Film Producer, Marketing Executive

Leonie Kapea Hayden (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Hine), writer.

Levi Fifita-Lamb (Samoan, Tongan) Student, Filmmaker, Amateur Film Critic.

Liam Gerrard (Pākehā) artist, musician.

Liam Pram (Pākehā), musician.

Liam Rockwell

Liliʻuokalani Fraser Cantlay (Hawai’i, Viti, Saku, Pākehā) artist.

Lily Holloway (Pākehā) writer, poet.

Lily McElhone (Pākehā) Writer.

Lily Shaw (Pākeha), Musician

Lily Worrall (Pākehā) Artist and ArtsWorker.

Lindsey de Roos (Cape-Coloured South African) Artist, Arts worker at Blue Oyster Art Project Space.

Lisa Maule (Pākehā / Scottish and English), producer and designer - performing arts

Lisa Swinbanks (Pākeha), actor, writer, producer

Lisa Wilkie (Pākehā, Slovenian, Irish) Arts Administrator.

Liss Bailey (Māori, Pākehā) Musician, Photographer, Activist

Litia Tuiburelevu (Fijian, Tongan, Pākehā) filmmaker

Litia Tuiburelevu (iTaukei, Tongan, Pākehā) writer, director.

Liv Tennet, actor and choreographer

Liz Breslin, writer

Liz Gibson (Kai Tahu, Pākehā), Artist, Musician

Liz Mathews (Pākehā) Artist and Musician

Lora Martin (Pākehā), Musician / Artist.

Lora Nankivell (Pākehā, Irish), Artist

Loretta Riach, (Pākehā) queer artist, poet, and facilitator at play_station artist run space.

Lorien Adcock, (Pākehā, Aotearoa) artist and illustrator.

Lou Maxwell (Pākehā), artist, jewellery designer, co-owner of Volta shop and gallery

Louisa Afoa, (Samoa, NZ), Artist and Educator.

Louisa Beatty, (Pākehā, NZ), artist

Louisa Williamson (Pākehā), musician, composer, teacher

Louise Johnstone

Louise Palmer, artist, teacher

Luca Szalmas (Hungarian, NZ), retoucher

LUCA Walton (Tongan/Palangi), Artist and illustrator.

Lucas Donnell (pākehā), musician.

Lucas Neal, (Pakeha), designer

Luciane Buchanan, (Tonga/ Palangi), actor.

Lucien Johnson (Pākehā) Musician.

Lucinda Bennett (Pākehā, Irish) writer, educator.

Lucy Dawber ( Pākeha, Ecuadorian) Actor, Writer, Theatre-Maker, Comedian.

Lucy Hill (Pākehā), artist.

Lucy Johnson (Whero) - (Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāi Te Rangi), Musician, Artist, Songwriter.

Lucy Marinkovich (Pākehā) Choreographer, Dancer.

Lucy Meyle (Pākehā), Artist, Teacher

Lucy Reid (Pākehā), musician.

Luisa Tora (Kadavu, Fiji), artist, curator, writer.

Lukasz Pawel Buda (musician, composer).

Luke Hanna (Pakeha), Artist

Lydia Zanetti (Pākehā), Executive and Artistic Director - Nelson Arts Festival, Producer - Zanetti Productions

Lyn Dallison, artist

Lynley Edmeades (Pākehā), writer

Lynn Vare (Ngā Puhi, Te Rarawa) musician, librarian.

Maarire Brunning Kouka (Ngati Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngati Porou, Ngati Kahungunu me Tūhoe) Musician/ Artist.

Maddi Rowe (Pākehā), writer and poet.

Maddy Adams, (Pakeha, Kaarna Land, Australia), illustrator and artist

Madeleine Mironuk, (Canadian, NZ), singer and poet.

Madison (Pākeha), Actor and creative.

Madison Kelly (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Pākehā), Artist, Musician

Mads Taylor (Pākehā), Musician

Mahara Haitana (Māori, Cook Island, Morte

Maia Wharewera-Ballard ( Ngāti Awa, Te Whanau-Ā-Apanui, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, British) Artist, Exhibition technician.

Maioha Kara (Ngati Korokii Kahukura, Ngati Tipa, Te Ātihaunui-A-Papārangi, Tūhourangi, Te Whānau a Hinetapora, Kuki Airani), Artist.

Maisie Chilton, (Jewish Pākeha) Artist and teacher

Malia Johnston (Director) Movement Of The Human

Manisha Morar, (Gujarat, India), Health Promoter.

Manon Revuelta (Pākehā), writer.

Manu Vaea (Tongan), Artist.

Mara TK, musician

Mardi O'Connor (writer, Pākehā)

Maree Sheehan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Tueharetoa), singer

Mareta Davidson (Sāmoan/Pālagi) Artist

Margo Montes de Oca (Mexican, Pākehā), student and poet

Maria Williams (Pākehā), Comedian, theatre maker, teacher

Mariadelle Felize 'Abbey' Gamit, (Filipino), artist

Mariama Hunia (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Rangitihi) Writer, Poet, Photographer, Exhibitions Technician

Marianne Infante (Kapampangan-Filipino) Actor, Producer, Writer, Mentor

Mark Harvey (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga), artist.

Martyn Pepperell (Pākehā), writer, photographer and DJ.

Marū Hobcraft (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kai Tahu, Tipua Takatāpui, Pākehā, European) rikatoi.

Mary Adeosun <marydahfairy> Hair Artist, Creative Director

Mary Macpherson, photographer, poet and art writer.

Mary Mosteller (pākehā, tauiwi from Alabama) writer, editor of Overcom Magazine.

Matariki Bennett (Te Arawa, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) Poet, Filmmaker.

Matariki Williams (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hauiti, Taranaki), curator, writer, historian

Matilda Hongell, (Finnish, Finland), student.

Matini Piripo ( Māori - Ngā Puhi) producer, DJ, MC.

Matt Hunter (Pākeha), Musician.

Matt Joils (Pākehā), Artist.

Matthew McAuley (Pākehā), writer, musician, creative director

Maya Jacobi Campos (Brazilian, Pākehā) circus movement artist, teacher and performer.

Maya Love (Aotearoa), writer and academic

McGregor Allen, sculptor

Meena Kadri (ancestry: Hindu, Muslim) photographer, consultant

Meg Andrews, (Pākehā), Actor & Director

Meg Porteous (Ngāti Maniapoto/Pākehā) artist.

Meg Rollandi (Pākehā), designer and theatre maker

Megan Archer, Pākehā, Artist

Megan Brady (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Pākehā) Artist

Megan Verity (Pākehā, Ngāti Maniapoto), Architectural Designer

Megan Vertelle, Piha -Tāmaki Makaurau , Film Decorator, Artist

Mel Mepham (Te Atiawa) Visual and Ceramic artist

Melanie Kung (Pākehā, Japanese) writer, librarian

Melanie Tahata, Ngāti Uepōhatu, Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongomaiwāhine, Ngāti Kahungungu ki Wairoa. Multi-disciplinary artist and solo Mum with a day job.

Melanie Tangaere Baldwin (Ngāti Porou) artist, curator

Melina Payne (Australian) curator.

Melinda Szymanik (Pakeha), writer and poet.

Melissa Gilbert (Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Palagi) Artist.

Melody Nixon (Pākehā), writer, academic.

Mere Taito (Rotuma), creative practice scholar, creative writer, Rotuman language activist

mhairi-clare fitzpatrick, pākehā, producer & filmmaker

Mica Still, (Irish, American) Mentor/Artist

Michael Lyell-O'Reilly (Aotearoa), arts and events manager and technician

Michaela Keeble, tangata Tiriti, poet and children’s book writer

Michaella Steel (Tainui, Rarotonga), theatre practitioner and writer

Michel Mulipola (Sāmoan) comic book artist, illustrator, animator, pro wrestler, gamer, storyteller.

Michelle Leuthart (New Zealander) actor / teacher

Michelle Rahurahu (Ngaati Tahu-Ngaati Whaoa, Ngaati Raukawa, Rangitaane) Writer, NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa Board Delegate: Te Māngai Māori ki te Poari

Michelle Savill, Film Writer and Director

Michelle Tiang (Malaysian-Chinese), artist.

Michelle Walshe (Pākehā), Film Director, Sport Tech CEO

Mieke van Gent (Pākehā), artist, musician, poet.

Mikayla Journée (Pākeha), Art History PhD Candidate, Writer, Public Programmes, Arts Governance.

Mikee Sto Domingo (Filipino) writer.

Miles Davitt (Tauiwi), artist, animator.

Miles Hendricks (Pākehā), artist

Millie Dunstall (Pākehā) artist

Millie Riddell (Pākehā, Fiji Indian, Nepalese), writer.

Milly Hampton (Pākeha, Scottish) artist, advocacy

Miloux (Tāmaki Makaurau), musician

Minji Lee, (Korean), artist.

Minsoh Choi (South Korean) Contemporary Artist and Set Designer.

Mīria George (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Cook Islands), writer, theatremaker, filmmaker.

Miriama Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Waikato-Tainui), writer, academic.

Miriama Grace-Smith (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Porou, Te Arawa, Ngāti Maniapoto) Artist.

Miriama McDowell Ngati Hine Actor

Misma Kerylee Aroha Anaru (Te Hika o Pāpāuma, Rangitāne) Ceramicist.

Misong Kim (Korean) writer, editor.

Moana Murray (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kawau, Ngāti Rēhia, Ngāti Kura) kairaranga, kaituhi.

Moewai Marsh (Kai Tahu , Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa), artist.

Mohammad Kunwar (Pakistani) musician, poet

Molly Rangiwai-McHale, (Ngāti Porou, Te Aupōuri), artist.

Morgan Bach (Pākehā), writer

Morgan Godfery (Ngāti Awa, Samoa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Maru), writer.

Morgan Tupaea (Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Mūtunga, Ngāti Tiipa, Te Aitanga a Mahaki) musician, academic

Moya Lawson (Catholic, Pākehā, Irish, Goan) Curator, Writer.

Moya Wong-Dennis (Chinese, Pākehā) Artist.

Murdoch Keane (Fag, Pākehā) CEO of Resistant Productions

Murdoch Stephens, author and publisher

Murray Hewitt (Pākehā) Art Technician, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and artist

Mustaq Missouri, (Indian), actor and writer

Mya Cole (iTaukei, Pākehā), writer.

Mya Thomas

Nadia (British, Srilankan), video editor

Nadia Kuruvila, Indian, Aotearoa, Student & dancer

Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi), writer.

Nafanua Kersel (Samoan) writer and performer

Nahyeon Lee (Korean) Film & Theatre maker.

Nando Azevedo, (Brazilian), photographer

Natalie Bradburn (Pākehā) Designer

Natalie Tozer (Pākehā, Aotearoa), artist

Natalya Mandich-Dohnt (Pākeha, Slavic) Theatre Producer & Storyteller.

Natasha Bidesi, Writer

Natasha Lampard (Te Whakatōhea, Ngāpuhi, Pākehā) Writer; Kaiwhakahaere Hōtaka; Director, Webstock

Natasha Matila-Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Hine, Sāmoa, Pākehā), Artist, Writer, Project Manager and Administrator at Arts Makers Aotearoa.

Natasha van Etten (Ngāi Te Rangi), mover, maker, story teller, producer.

Nathan Joe (Chinese), theatremaker and writer.

Nathan Pōhio, Waitaha, Kati Mamoe, Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungungu, Tau Iwi, Artist, Senior Curator Māori - Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Nathan Rew (Papua New Guinean, Pākehā) doctoral candidate, writer.

Nathaniel Marc

Nayte Rēweti (Ngāti Manu, Ngāti Kōpaki, Haina, Ingarani, Kōtirani), ringatoi, kaiakiaki.

Neeve Woodward, (Pākehā), gardener

Neihana Gordon - Stables ( Ngāti kuri), artist.

Nerys Ngaruhe (Rongomaiwahine, Ngaati Kahungunu, Ngaati Porou, Rangitaane, Ngai Tahu, Cymraeg) Ringatoi

Ngaere Jenkins (Te Arawa), Artist

Ngahuia Harrison (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Pukenga), Artist, Writer.

Ngaire Reihana (Ngāti Kahu)

Ngaroma Riley (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Pākehā), artist.

Nia Vavao (Samoan ) musician, librarian and artist.

Niamh Hollis-Locke (Pākehā) Writer, ecopoet, Minarets (Compound Press) guest-editor 2023-24.

Niamh Maher (Pakeha, Irish) Multimedia Artist.

Nicholas Dunning (Pākehā), Architectural Designer

Nick Ascroft (Pākeha), writer

Nick Bollinger (Pākehā) writer

Nico Madill (Pakeha, Aotearoa), visual artist

Nico Woodward (Pakeha), registered nurse, activist, artist

Nicola Andrews, (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā), writer and academic

Nicola Caldwell, (Pākehā), dancer and archivist.

Nicole Brebner, (Pākehā), Actor and Artist

Nicole Hawkins (Kahungunu, Pāhuwera), Taonga Puāwai

Nicole Hunt (Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Pikiao, Filipino) photographer, filmmaker.

Nicole Rogers( Australian living in New Zealand) Dancer and teacher

Nicole Titihuia Hawkins (Pāhauwera, Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa), Writer, Poet, Teacher, Mother, Facilitator of Poetry with Brownies

Nigel Borell (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Apakura, Te Whakatohea, Te Rarawa) artist, curator, writer.

Nikola Vasakova (European, Middle Eastern), producer and community organiser

Nina Dyer (Pākehā), writer, curator and exhibition manager.

Nina Finigan (Pākehā), curator.

Nina Mingya Powles (Pākehā, Malaysian-Chinese), writer.

Nirvana Haldar (Indian Bengali, Tauiwi), writer, artist

Nisha Madhan (India), artist and arts worker.

Nishhza Thiruselvam (Malaysian boramil) writer, teacher.

Nkhaya Paulsen-More (Ngāti Maru (Hauraki), Ngāruahine, Ngāti Pūkenga), writer

Nkosisphile Matsebula (South African, RSA) Actress and visual artist

Nora Aati (Sāmoa) Actor, Filmmaker.

Nora Eriksen Myklebust

Nova Moala-Knox, (Ngāti Tukorehe) Tongan, Pākehā. Toi whakaari acting student.

Nova Paul (Ngāpuhi) Artist

Nuanzhi Zheng (Shanghai, tauiwi), playwright and arts worker.

Numangatini Fraser Mackenzie (Mangaian,pakeha) painter, printer, maker and Father.

Nunzio Madden, Slovenian-Australian artist, musician and filmmaker.

Olive Nuttall (Pākehā) trans writer and fencer.

Olive Wilson (Samoa, Pākehā), student, writer.

Oliver Carlé (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Kahungunu) writer, researcher, designer.

Oliver Carle (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Kahungunu), writer and researcher.

Olivia Brook, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi, kaiako and recruiter

Olivia Dowell (Ngāti Kahungunu), poet.

Ooshcon One (Samoan/Pākehā) Artist, World-builder, Facilitator.

Ophelia Jones (Pākehā) Artist, Photographer.

Orissa Keane (Tangata Tiriti, British, Swiss, Thai), arts writer and editor, exhibition technician.

Oscar Dowling (Pākehā), Musician

Oscar Mardell (Pākehā), teacher, writer.

Owen Connors (Pākehā), Artist

Paige Constable, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu

Paige Jansen, Lyttelton, New Zealand, Textile artist

Paige Nebbeling (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Hauā) Artist

Paige Pomana (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Rongomaiwahine) Sound Artist.

Paloma Mora Guerrero (Mexico / NZ) Photographer

Pam McKinlay (Pākeha, New Zealand) Artist, Editor, Art Educator

Paolo Rotondo, director

Pat Kraus (Pākehā), Musician, photographer.

Pati Tyrell, (Samoan, Aotearoa), Artist

Paula Green MNZM (Pākehā) writer, anthologist, reviewer, blogger.

Peggy Robinson, (Pākehā), arts worker

Pelenakeke Brown (Sāmoan, Pākehā), disabled artist, writer.

Peter Simpson (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Paoa, Ngāti Tamaterā), artist.

Phil Dadson (pākehā) visual artist/musician

Philip Kelly (Pākehā) designer, artist.

Phoebe Hurst, Pākeha, Musician/Performer

Pinky Fang (Pākehā) Visual Artist

pip adam (Pākehā, Romani), writer.

Pipiana Hemi (Ngati Pikiao, Ngāpuhi), Artist

Piupiu Maya Turei (Wairarapa Moana, Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi), Musician, curator

Poppy (Filipino, Pākehā) Artist, Designer and Producer, O&P Works

Poppy Serano (Filipino, Pākehā), Designer Producer

Pounamu Wharekawa (Ngai te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Pākehā) artist, illustrator and muralist.

Prairie Hatchard-McGill (Pākeha), Artist

Priscilla Rose Howe (Pākehā), artis

Puawai Cairns (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pūkenga) - writer, researcher.

Pulkit Arora (Indian), Filmmaker

Qiane Matata-Sipu (Te Waiohua, Waikato, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Pikiao, Rarotonga, Mangaia) writer, photographer, storyteller.

Qianhe ‘AL’ Li (Chinese), artist.

Quentin Lind (Pākehā)

Quentin Tauetau-Tohitau (Niuean) Artist, illustrator.

Rachael Lowe (Pakeha, NZ) writer

Rachael Naomi (Pākehā) artist, poet.

Rachel Ashby, (Pākeha), Broadcaster and artist

Rachel Blackburn (Pākehā) Artist

Rachel Hope Peary (Irish, Pākehā) Artist, Mother.

Rachel House (Ngāti Mutunga, Kāti Mamoe, Kai Tahu) Writer, Director, Actor.

Rachel Kerr (Tāngata Tiriti) writer

Rachel O'Neill (Pākehā queer), filmmaker, writer and artist.

Rachel Shearer (Rongowhakaata) Sound artist, kaiako

Rachel Trow (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe) public servant, Pantograph Punch Co-Chair

Rachel Yates (Sāmoa), Pou Hītori Matua Moananui-a-Kiwa - Senior Pacific Historian; Vaisala.

Rae Longshaw-Park (Pākehā, Irish, English) theatre maker & writer.

Raewyn Martyn (Pākehā) artist and teacher.

Raiha Mo’unga Tupou (Ngāpuhi, Ngāpuhi ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa & Kolofo’ou, Leimatu’a, Tonga) Artist

Rain Tyler Ó Maoláin (Éireannach, Pākehā) writer, dancer and filmmaker.

Rangimārie Elvin (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pūkenga, Kāi Tahu) Kaitui, kaituhituhi, ringatoi, kaitiaki taiao.

Rangimarie Sophie Jolley (Waikato-Tainui), Writer.

Raphaela Rose (Pākehā) architect.

Rarotonga, Mangaia, Samoa, Scotland

Rat World (Zine publishers).

Raukawa Kiri (Ngati Tiipa, Maniapoto, Ngati Pōrou) Ringa Toi

Raukura Turei (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi), architect, artist.

Rawinia Te Reo o Rangi Shayla Kiwi (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngai Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu)

Raymond Sagapolutele (Fatuvalu, Saoluafata, Falelatai, Samoa) artist and academic.

Rea Burton (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Pākehā) artist.

Rebecca Hawkes (Pākehā), writer, artist.

Rebecca Hazard (Pākehā) Artist.

Rebekah Fraser (Pākehā), writer

Reece King (Pakeha, Samoan) Artist

Regan (Pākeha) musician

Reia Guess ( Indonesian, Morroccan), singer, songwriter

Remy Copeland (Pākehā), Public Servant

Renee Liang (Cantonese, Tauiwi) Writer, doctor, health researcher

Renée Sheridan (Pākehā) Performer, Writer, Director, Coach

Reon Bell (Ngāti Whitikaupeka, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) Actor/DJ/Artist

Reva Grills, (Ngati Porou, Ngai Te Rangi, Te Arawa), theatre practitioner and musician.

Rewa Fowles, (Māori and Pākehā), Dance Movement Therapy informed Multidisciplinary Artist.

Rhegan Tu‘akoi (Tongan Pākehā) writer and education adviser.

Rhys Feeney (Pākehā) Poet, teacher

Ria Paki (Tūwharetoa, Waikato Tainui), Actress, Performer, Creative

Richard Larsen, (Pakeha), Musician.

Ricky Townsend, (Pākehā), Artist

Riki Pirihi (Ngāti Wai / Ngāti Māhanga) Musician, PhD candidate.

Riley Young (Pākehā) Artist

Rimu Bhooi (Panjabi Sikh, Pākehā, Tauiwi) creative, writer, advocate.

Rina Sviatskaia, stylist and writer, newsletter editor at Sauce

Robbie Fraser(Ngāti Porou ki Haatanga ki Mataora), Artist.

Robbie Handcock, artist and curator

Robert George (Ngāti Kearoa Ngāti Tuara, Kuki Airani) artist.

Robert Wallace, (Pākehā), animation director.

Rocky Manusaute Samoa/Niuean/Actor/content creator

Roimata Prendergast (Ngāti Kahu, mauke, rai'atea), Storytelling coordinator and poet.

romesh dissanayake (Koryo Saram, Sri lankan, Tauiwi) writer.

Romina Meneses, actor

Romy Hooper (NZ European), Actor/Voice artist/Narrator/Director/Intimacy Coordinator and Acting Coach.

Ronia Ibrahim (Muslim, Asian) writer, artist.

Roo Reihana-Wilson (Ngā Puhi, Ngāi Tūteauru, Ngāti Hine), film producer

Rosabel Tan (Peranakan Chinese) Producer, researcher.

Rosamund Philpott (Pākehā) - Choreographer, Artist.

Rose Freeborn (Pākehā, Aotearoa), musician and writer

Rose Tapsell (Ngāti Whakaue, Raukawa, Pākehā) Dancer

Rosie Dawson-Hewes, (Pākehā), writer, activist, arts worker

Rowan Panther (Pākehā) artist

Rowan Thomson (Pākeha) artist.

Rowena Bahl (South Asian) Creative Director, Editor

Roxie Black, (NZ, US) Designer

Ru Pirie-Hunter (Pākehā) Musician

Ruby Cumming (NZ Pākeha), animation line producer

Ruby Papālii-Curtin, (Samoan: Sapapalii, Lefaga, Safotu; Pakeha), musician

Ruby Porter ( Pākehā), writer, artist and teacher.

Ruby Solly (Kāti Tiu / Hurai - Ashkenazi, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kā Tahu, Pākehā) taonga pūoro practioner, writer, musician, composer, PhD candidate; Mmusth

Ruby Wilkinson (Pākehā), artist.

Rue Al-Tiay, (Iraqi) Musician

Rushi Vyas (South Asian, US, Aotearoa), writer, poet

Ruth Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa, Pākehā) artist, Kaitohu Director Artspace Aotearoa,

Ruth Cleland (Pākehā), Artist.

Ryan Bradley (Ngati Whakaue), producer and choreographer

Sabina Rizos- Shaw (Pākehā), artist

Sabreen Islam (Bangladeshi, Muslim), Artist, Writer

Sabrina Lawson (Pākehā, Argentina), audiovisual artist and academic.

Sade Mahutu ( Māori Nigerian descent, Ngai Tahu, Ngā Puhi) - Model.

Saffron Dunlop (NZ / UK) brand manager

Saige England, Pākehā, author of The Seasonwife, award-winning human rights journalist and poet.

Sakhr Munassar (Arab, Muslim) founder of Hala Aotearoa and Community Worker

Salesi Le’ota (Tga, Pākehā) Actor, Arts administrator

Sally-Mae Hudson, Artist. Wanaka, NZ

Salomé Grace (Pākehā), actor

Sam Carswell (Pākehā, Dutch, Lebanese), sound artist, audio engineer, writer

Sam Hamilton, pākehā, artist/director/producer

Sam Iti Prendergast (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ingarangi, Aerani, Hāmene), researcher, writer, educator.

Sam Keenan (Pākehā), writer and editor.

Sam Knegt (Chinese, Pākehā) arts facilitator/tutor.

Sam Trubridge (UK, NZ pakeha)

Sam Wang, (Australia, New Zealand), actor and writer

Sam Wieck (Pākehā) Designer, writer, musician.

Samantha Bell, (NZ European), costumier and textile artist

Samantha Cheng (Malaysian, Tauiwi), artist, writer.

Samantha Mitchell (Pākehā) artist/designer, facilitator at MEANWHILE.

Samantha Sestito (Pākehā), psychologist, artist, writer.

Samara Alofa (Ngati Awa, Vailoa Palauli), Artist, Songwriter/Musician.

Samara Te Aniwa Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Arawa) Performer, Choreographer

Samaria Anaru Hill (Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Kahangungu) Artist

Samiira Wali (Muslim, Somali), photographer

Sammy Norton, Artist

Samson Dell (Fijian, Pākehā) Queer photographic artist, Facilitator at The Handmade Darkroom.

Samuel Te Kani (Ngā Puhi), writer, filmmaker.

Samuel Walsh (Indian, Lebanese, Welsh, UK), arts facilitator

Sananda Chatterjee (Indian Bengali, Tauiwi) Theatremaker and Arts Worker.

Sara Al-Bahar, (Muslim, Iraqi), writer, poet.

Sara Tautuku Orme (Ngati Awa, Te Arawa, Pākehā) Photographer

Sarah Cordery, filmmaker

Sarah Foster-Sproull (Aotearoa) Choreographer

Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko) artist, researcher, collective-member and mum.

Sarah Jane Barnett (Pākehā), writer and editor

Sarah Jane Parton (Pākehā, Cook Islands, Tahiti), writer, artist, student.

Sarah Joy (Pākehā) Photographer.

Sarah Knox (Pākehā), dance teacher, academic.

Sarah Laing, musian

Sarah Larnach (Tangata Tiriti), Visual Artist

Sarah Natalie Webster (Pākehā) writer and māmā.

Sarah Williamson , Social Worker

Saraid de Silva (Sinhalese, Tamil, Pākehā, Tauiwi) writer and arts worker.

Sascha Drice (Haitian-American), musician and academic

Sav Mattyasovszky (Pākehā), Artist.

Savannah Davenport (New Zealander, British), alumni

SBeca (Pākehā) artist, cultural worker

Scarlett Krichbaum (United States) Deaf writer, poet, and artist

Scott Brewer (Te ATI aw a,Ngatr rarua, Ngati Tama) Artist/Illustrator.

Sean Dioneda Rivera (Filipino-Batas-Biccolano-Pākeha) Writer, Director, Actor, Composer

Sean Norling (Kāti Waewae), Musician

Sean Rivera (fillipino-pakeha) writer, director, actor

Sebastien Charles (Tainui), photographer

Selina Ershadi (Iran, Aotearoa), Interdisciplinary artist and writer

Semira Davis (Pākehā) writer, artist.

Sequoia Cunningham, (Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Porou), Artist.

Serena Bentley, curator

Serena Cotton (Pākehā) Actor

Shama Shaheen (South Asian ), Digital Marketer and actor.

Shannen Young (Cantonese Chinese) Jeweller and maker.

Shannon Palmer, (Aotearoa, NZ), Paramedic Student and Teacher Aide.

Shawnee Tekii (Kuki Airani) Multidisciplinary Artist, Teacher.

Sheldon Rua (Waikato/Tainui, Sapapali'i) dancer, poet

Shelley Botticelli (Pākehā) Illustrator.

Shelley Botticelli, painter, illustrator

Sherry Zhang (Chinese, Tauiwi) - editor of The Pantograph Punch, writer.

Shona Macleod (Pākehā), designer

Shreya Gejji (Indian), Filmmaker

Sian Evans (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou, Te Ātiawa) Māmā, artist, creative director- Kūwao Space.

Sian Montgomery-Neutze (Muaūpoko, Ngai Tara, Ngāti Apa) Artist, writer, cultural advisor.

Siara Marx, Ngai Te Rangi, Designer

Siew Wee H’ng (Chinese Malaysian), Motion Designer

Silvana Nieto (Argentinian, New Zealand)

Simon Endres (Ngāti Rangi O Ngāpuhi), artist

Simon Gennard (Pākehā) Assistant Curator Contemporary Art and Collections, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu.

Simon Palenski (Pākehā), director Blue Oyster.

Simone Kaho, (Tongan, Pākehā), Writer.

Sinareah Tutunoa (Sāmoan, NZ), Photographer

Sinareah Tutunoa (Sāmoan), Photographer.

Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou), writer, historian, researcher, editor.

Siobhanne Thompson (Pākeha) Violinist, musician, teacher

Sione Monū, artist

Sita Venkateswar

Sloane Hong, (Korean, Aotearoa), Illustrator, Comic Artist, Tattooer

Sochetha Meng (Asian), visual designer.

Sofia Athineou, (Greek, New Zealander), Artist

Sonia Hardie, (Pākehā), Producer, Presenter.

Sonya Milford (Ngāti Kahungunu, Safotu Savai’i - Samoa) Design Director.

Sonya Nagels, photogapher, jeweller

Sophi Reinholt (Pākehā / Norwegian) photographer and graphic designer

Sophia Smolenski, (Pākehā), Artist and museum technician.

Sophia Wilson (Australian / Pākehā) poet.

Sophie Davis (Pākehā), gallery director and curator

Sophie Graham (Pākehā), actor

Sophie McDonagh, (Pākehā), artist

Sophie Seraphim (they/them - Kanata): noise musician, event organiser, and analog photographer

Sophie Yana Wilson (Samoa, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāpuhi, Te Whakatōhea) Music Writer & Producer.

Sorawit Songsataya (Tauiwi, Thai), artist.

Spiral Collectives (founded by lesbian poet Heather McPherson 1975) cultural workers

Sriwhana Spong, artist

Stace Robertson (Pākehā), disabled artist.

Stacey Teague (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi), writer and publisher.

Starsha Samarasinghe, (Sri Lankan), activist, writer.

Stella Reid (Pākehā, Aotearoa), Theatre and film maker

Stella Roper, (Pākehā, Aotearoa), writer and artist.

Steve Braunias, writer and editor

Steven Junil Park, Artist and designer

Stevie Hancox-Monk (Pākehā), actor & writer

Suivai Autagavaia (Samoan Kiwi), Artist

Summer Hutchinson (Pākehā) artist, photographer.

Suzanna Persad, musician

Swapna Haddow (British, NZ), writer

Swaroopa Unni (Indian-New Zealander, New Zealand), Performing Artist

Sylvan Spring (Pākehā - Irish & Scottish) writer and music maker.

Taarn Scott (Pākehā) Artist

Taciano Milfont, (Pindorama Brasil), academic and human rights defender

Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia) writer.

Talia Pua (Malaysian Chinese), theatre maker (actor, writer, set designer).

Talia-Rae Mavaega (Sāmoan), Theatre Actor

Tallulah Farrar (Pākeha), designer

Tallulah Mclean (African American/ Pākehā) Makeup Artist

Tama Jarman (Ngāti Pākehā) Actor, Teacher, Social Worker.

Tamsen Hopkinson (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Pāhauwera) artist, curator

Tamsyn Kereopa (Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa) PhD candidate

Tania (TK) Roxborogh (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekurī) - writer, educator.

Tania Wehi of Ngā Puhi

Tanya Barlow (Pākehā, Singaporean Chinese) Artist

Tanya Ruka (Ngati Pakau, Ngapuhi Aotearoa) artist, academic.

Tara Parsons (Pākeha), writer, public programmes.

Taranaki Ah Young-Grace (Nō Ngāti Ruanui, Sāmoa, China, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and France), Musician, Writer.

Tarika Sabherwal (Indian) artist and teacher

Tash Helasdottir-Cole (Ngāti Porou) Photographer/video artist.

Tash Keddy, (Aotearoa), artist

Tash van Schaardenburg (Pākehā) Artist, Music Facilitator/Manager at The Audio Foundation/Audio Foundation Records

Tate Fountain (Pākehā) Writer, editor, producer, performer.

Tayi Tibble (Te Whanau a Apanui, Ngati Porou), writer.

Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Nga Paerangi, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi): writer.

Te Ara Minhinnick (Ngaati Te Ata) Ringatoi, Kaiako.

Te Ataahia Hurihanganui (Rangitāne, Ngāti Hāmua, Ngāti Kahungunu-ki-Wairarapa, Ngāti Ira, Ngāti Porou, Te Arawa), Cultural Advisor

Te Kawa Robb (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi) Pāpā, Photographer, Researcher, Activist

Te Maari Barham (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Pākeha), Gallery Registrar.

Te Ohorere Williams (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāiterangi, Waitaha, Ngāti Pukenga) performer, singer, actress.

Te Rima Whakatau (Te Atiawa, Ngāi Tahu, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Whakaue, Kāti Māmoe, Ngati Kahungungu, Ngāti Apakura) Artist/Illustrator.

Ted Whitaker (Pākēha), artist

Tegan Allpress (Ngāti Whakaue, Rongowhakaata), photographer.

Teresa Meyer, (Auckland, New Zealand) singer, dancer

Terri Te Tau (Rangitāne, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) artist, writer

Tess Connell (Pākehā) Artist

Tessa Forde (Pākehā) Architectural designer, organiser, teacher, writer

Tessa Keenan (Te Ātiawa, Pākehā), student, writer.

Tessa Redman (Pākehā) dancer, actor, choreographer

Tessa Romano, (Sicilian, Irish, US), singer and academic.

Tessa Russell (Ngāti Rakaipaaka), artist.

Teuila ‘Ofamo’oni-Ah Hi (Tokelauan, Sāmoan-Chinese, Tongan, Irish, Scottish) - Artist.

Thabiso Sibanda (Zimbabwaean) podcaster, content creator.

Theodore Salmon (Pākehā), musician.

Thomas Butler, (New Zealander, NZ), musician and sales

Thomas K Shoebridge (Te Arawa) musician, DJ, promoter.

Tia Barrett (Waitaha, Ngāti Mamoe, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Tamainupō) Moving Image Practitioner and Photographer.

Tiana Jakicevich (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Te Whakatōhea).

Tiffany Singh (Samoan, Indian), installation artist.

Tiffany Witehira (Ngāpuhi), perfumer, storyteller.

Tim Wagg (Pākehā) artist.

Timmie Cameron (Pākehā) Actor, Writer

Timothy Russell (Ngāpuhi), tattooist and artist.

Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore) Writer

Tina McIvor, musician

Tina Plunkett, (Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa), Painter, printmaker, writer

Tiniwai Wainohu, (Ngāti Kahungunu), Artist, Architect

Tobias Allen, (Pākehā), Artist.

Toby Morris (Pākehā), Illustrator, cartoonist

Todd Karehana (Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana), director, writer and producer.

Tom Augustine (Pakeha) filmmaker and writer

Tom Tuke (Pākehā), Puppeteer, artist.

Tommy Pilks, UK, artist

Tony Black (Pākehā) Designer, Technician, artist.

Tori Manley-Tapu (Pākeha) dancer, designer and co-director of Ta’alili.

Totty Bowman (Ngāpuhi) artist.

Totty Bowman (Ngāpuhu) Artist

Toyah Webb (Pākehā), writer and academic.

Trinity Thompson-Browne (Ngāti Kahungunu, Muaūpoko), poet, photographer.

Trish Lambert (Tauiwi Pakeha, 5th generation), Poet and artist

Trish Veltman, English, NZ, writer and artist

Tuhoea Tuteao (Waikato) Artist/Producer.

Tūī, (Ngāti Korokoro, Te Roroa Ngai Te Rore, Ngaati Whaawhaakia, Wairere Ngaati Koura, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kōtirana McLean, Airani), Ringatoi me Kaiwhakaora.

Tuioleloto Laura Toailoa, (Samoan), writer and teacher.

Tunisia Kareko (Ngapuhi,Rongowhakaata)

Tupe Lualua (Sāmoa, Aotearoa) Artist, Educator, Producer, Director

Turumeke Harrington (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Artist, māmā

Tusiata Avia MNZM (Samoan, tauiwi) poet, playwright.

Tyla Stevenson (Pākehā) Tutor/ Student

Tyler Jackson (Pākehā) Artist.

Tyneille Marsters (Cook Island), Mama.

Tyrone Elia (Ngati Karika, Ngati Pea - Kuki Airani) musician / actor

Tyrone Wahanui Te Waa (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) Ringatoi.

Una Cruickshank (Pākehā), nonfiction writer.

Unu Producer, Content creator.

Vana Manasiadis (Greek, tangata Tiriti), writer

Vanessa Green, Ngaati Maniapoto, Photographer

Vanessa Hawken (Irish, Ngāti Pākeha, Scottish), writer and producer

Vanessa Immink (Ngāti Haua, Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa, Pākehā), theatre maker and producer.

Vanessa Mei Crofskey (Pākehā, Hokkien Chinese) writer, artist, director of The Pantograph Punch.

Vasanti Unka (Aotearoa-Indian), children’s book creator.

Veisinia Moalapau’u Fulivai (Tongan), Writer.

Venus Blacklaws, (Pākehā, Aotearoa) Artist, Performer

Veronica Herber (Pakeha), Artist

Via Tuimaseve, (Samoan), artist

Victor Billot, (New Zealand), writer and trade unionist

Victoria Abbott, (Pākehā), actor and director.

Vida Gibson, pākeha, performer and musician

Viki Moananu (Samoan) Playwright and Actor

Vincent Bolt, artist.

Vincent Tawera Andrew-Scammell, actor

Violet Hirst, Pākehā, Te Waipounamu, Artist/Musician

Vioula Said (Egyptian) Spatial Designer & Jeweller.

Vira Paky (Congolese) Poet, Playwright and Community Advocate.

Virginia Frankovich (Pākehā/Irish, Croatian and Samoan) Multidisciplinary artist.

Virginia Lambert, (Pākehā), PhD candidate

Vishmi Helaratne, (Sinhalese, Sri Lankan) non-binary Artist.

Vivienne Teo (Chinese, Peranakan) Producer.

Wai Ching Chan (Hong Kong Chinese, tauiwi) Fibre/textile artist.

Waikamania Seve (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Hāmoa) Creative / actress in training.

Wairehu grant (Ngāti Maniapoto), musician and researcher.

Whetu-Iti Doreen Silver (Ngati Pakahi; Te Tahawai) artivist.

Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwhareroa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui, Pākehā) writer

Whitney Nicholls-Potts, (Ngāti Kurī), maker and organiser.

Will Bennett (Pākehā) artist and teacher.

Will Hansen (Pākehā), zine-maker, researcher, trustee of Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa, the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand.

Wumi Amokeodo (Nigerian, Pākehā), Poet.

Xander Dixon (Pākehā), photographer.

Xavier Meade (Mexican-Kiwi) visual artist.

Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky-M’Baye (european/sénégalese), artist.

Yani Widjaja (Pākehā, Indonesian), writer.

Yasmin Dullabh (Indian) Artist, Designer

Yasser Saeed (Iraqi, Arab, Muslim) Artist, Photographer, UX and Web Designer.

Ye-Bin Lee (Korean, NZ) Artist

Yolunda Hickman (Pākeha), artist and academic.

Yvette Parsons ( Pakeha, Fijian) Actor, writer

Zane Sorenson-Graham, Taranaki Iwi

Zarahn Tūwharetoa Southon (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Pikiao) artist.

Zaynia Amrita Ram, Music Artist

Zephyr Zhang (Chinese) Poet, Performer

Zephyr-Tokomairangi Charteris (Ngāitai ki Tōrere) artist, writer.

Ziggy Lever (Pākehā) artist.

Zody Takurua, (Ngā Rauru), Actor and Script Writer

Zoe Black, (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Pākehā), Deputy director, Objectspace.

Zoe Crane, (Pākeha), actor.

Zoe Hannay (Pākehā), artist/designer

Zoe Hughes

Zoe Thompson-Moore, (Pākehā), artist, educator, parent.

Header photographer: Byron Coll