Greg O'brien
New exhibition explores our love and connection to the ocean
A new exhibition at the New Zealand Maritime Museum celebrates our connection to Moana Oceania also known as the Pacific Ocean. Always Song in the Water features works from over 40 accomplished… Audio
Help needed to solve Don Binney art mystery
Artist and writer Greg O'Brien needs the public's help to find a Don Binney painting. Audio
Greg O'Brien publishes on painter Melvin Day
Three years after his death, a new book offers for the first time a comprehensive look at the life, work and legacy of painter Melvin Day - also known as Pat. Encompassing seven prolific decades of… Audio, Gallery
Elizabeth Thomson's Cellular Memory
Elizabeth has filled gallery walls with dozens of fish and white butterflies and plunged us into the ocean around the distant Kermadec Islands. She brought together works at Aratoi Gallery in the… Audio
Greg O'Brien - the year in poetry
Painter, poet, curator and writer on the year in poetry - introducing several favourites, including Paekakariki poet Rob Hack. Audio
CK Stead named as New Zealand's newest Poet Laureate
That is one of the country's most celebrated scribes, CK Stead, New Zealand's latest Poet Laureate. Audio
Poetry with Greg O'Brien: Anna Jackson
Greg discusses I, Clodia, and Other Portraits by Anna Jackson. Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: poetry
Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the new collection Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page, and One Human in Height by Rachel O'Neill. Audio
Poetry with Greg O'Brien: John Pule
Gregory O'Brien discusses the work of artist and poet John Puhiatau Pule; his 1985 epic love poem The Bond of Time is now available in a new edition from Canterbury University. Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Alan Brunton
Discussing the poems of Alan Brunton, as collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002. Audio
Greg O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt
Poets and newly named Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Audio
The death of NZ artist Ralph Hotere
With Greg O'Brien - writer, curator, art historian and friend of Ralph Hotere. Audio
You Call This Art? - Part 2
Filmmaker Mark Albiston, poet Greg O'Brien and composer and musician Warren Maxwell talk about what motivates them with Paul Bushnell. Wine writer John Saker also contributes. Audio
Greg O'Brien
Writer and winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction. Audio
Arts with Greg O'Brien
In May 2011 a group of leading artists from the South Pacific region travelled on the HMNZS Otago to a place rarely explored - the Kermadec Islands. The artists were Niuean-born John Pule, painter… Audio
Greg O'Brien: across the water
Poet, painter, writer and curator at large whose work features in the book, Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific and the travelling exhibition of the same name. His most recent book of… Audio
Greg O'Brien: the Kermadecs
Poet, painter, writer and curator at large who was one of nine artists from the South Pacific region who travelled to the Kermadec Islands, the most remote part of New Zealand. Audio
Feature Guests - Greg O'Brien and Mari Mahr
Artist and curator Greg O'Brien and photographer Mari Mahr; wife of the late New Zealand illustrator Graham Percy. Audio
Greg O'Brien on the work of Graham Percy
Taranaki born Graham Percy spent much his life in Britain but now New Zealanders have the chance to experience the work of this illustrator, designer, and typographer. Audio
Greg O'Brien
The writer and artist is presenting the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture at the launch of New Zealand Book Month. Audio