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Wallace Chapman
Wallace Chapman is charged with drawing forth the panellists’ wisdom on all things sinful. His ‘day job’ spans presenting a politics show, running a streetstyle blog, developing a 13-part TV series called The New Old on trends that are coming back into fashion (think bespoke tailoring, baking and Christianity), and he’s just been commissioned by Penguin to write a book on ‘Slow Living’. Since 2008 Chapman has hosted the popular and one of a kind ‘pub politics’ show Back Benches on TVNZ7. “He’s disarming because he asks that very hard question in a very simple, direct way.” (Listener Jan 2012 issue 3740). So he’s well primed to tackle the subject of ENVY with the esteemed line-up we have for the first in the series of LATE.
Of the Envy panel says Chapman: “I couldn’t get a better dinner party wish list if I tried. Denise L’Estrange-Corbet, Sir Lloyd Geering, and Reuben Paterson. Fashion, Theology, and Art clashing in a maelstrom of ideas about ENVY. Now that’s something.”
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Sir Lloyd Geering
Sir Lloyd Geering is many things: he’s an ordained Presbyterian minister, a prolific author, a distinguished academic, and a public figure of some renown – in 1988 he was made a Companion of the British Empire, and in 2001 he topped New Zealand’s New Year’s Honours list, being made a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He’s also a progressive thinker whose work has been the subject of a good deal of controversy. In 1967, Lloyd Geering’s writings on the resurrection of Jesus and the immortality of the soul, resulted in his being charged by the Presbyterian Church with "doctrinal error" and "disturbing the peace of the church" – more or less the same thing as a heresy charge. Since then, he’s gone on to challenge Christian orthodoxy perhaps even more profoundly, by questioning the distinction between the religious and the secular worlds. |
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Denise L’Estrange-Corbet
Director and co-founder of WORLD, arguably New Zealand’s most progressive fashion house, Denise L’Estrange-Corbet has been responsible for many firsts in this country’s fashion history – no doubt engendering a decent serve of envy in her own career. WORLD has appeared in Fashion Weeks around the world including London, Paris, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand and been lauded in the ‘fashion bibles’ US and Italian Vogue. Denise writes several regular columns and recently joined the NZ Global Women’s forum headed by New Zealand’s former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dame Jenny Shipley. She is also an Ambassador for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation and works with the Starship Foundation, IHC, AIDS and the Mental Health Foundation.
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Reuben Paterson
Reuben Paterson is a dynamic young artist known for his creations in glitter and diamond dust. Drawing from both his Maori (Ngati Rangitihi) and Scottish ancestry, Paterson also combines traditional pattern and design with non-traditional media, reinvigorating and extending Maori expression. Paterson incorporates formal painting properties of sharp line and ornate detail with specially commissioned glitter colours to elicit curiosity and joy. He holds a postgraduate Degree in Fine Arts and in teaching from the University of Auckland and was the youngest recipient of the Moet et Chandon Award to Avize, France. He exhibits both locally and internationally, including shows in the Prague Biennial and Centro de Arte Caja De Burgos, Spain, The Cambridge Museum, England and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. Paterson has also under taken a major commission for the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and for the Auckland Art Gallery’s education centre. |
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The Bellbirds
Songs and vocals in a stripped-back setting are The Bellbirds’ signature. Formed in 2009, their musical approach ensures the lyrics and melodies don’t get lost behind noisy instrumentation. “With the melodies and harmonies of a 60s baroque pop sensibility combined with bittersweet lyrics; the birds and bees are miserable but achingly beautiful.”
Creating their unmistakable sound is the soulful, emotional voice of Sandy Mill, Victoria Kelly’s spellbinding voice and keyboards, Sean Donnelly on guitar and bass and Don McGlashan’s powerful vocal and instrumental presence, most recently witnessed in Ship Songs at Q Theatre.
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