The Vernacularist - Number One: Vernacular Perspectives

publications such as King Brown, Remix, Catalog, Lurve, Pulp, Yen and Black magazines.

Erin is currently the managing director of Method and Manners studios and gallery (est.

2009) and editor of The Vernacularist.

Mia Hamilton is a full-time artist having graduated with a Diploma of Art & Creativity from The Learning Connexion, Wellington, in 2008. Mia also has a Diploma of Interior Design from the Academy of Fine Arts, London, and a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University, Palmerston North. Mia was both a Portage Ceramic Awards finalist in 2013 and 2011 and a Waiclay Ceramic Awards finalist in 2011. At the New Zealand Art Show in 2011 she had a sellout show, selling over thirty ceramic pieces in three days. Also in 2011, Mia was Potter in Residence at Wellington Potters Association in Thorndon. She has had 8 solo ceramic exhibitions around NZ since 2008.

Peter Jennings NZ: Image junkie photographer and boot resistor of Irish roots. If I had a wish it would be to be invisible with a camera to capture the beauty including the ugly beauty of life. I would love to live in a world that had no censorship and no secrets. (More images of The Porn Project pages XXXXX can be found on Flickr) Lia Kent Mackillop is an Auckland based photographer, sculptor and BFA Hons graduate from the Elam School of Fine Arts. She is currently the Media and Promotions Coordinator at the Depot Artspace where she looks after promotional material online and in print and works with Creative Director, Linda Blincko, on various projects.

Brendan Kitto grew up in Wellington, Wanganui and Auckland, moving to the latter at the age of twelve. The move to Auckland introduced Brendan to various subcultures that he would later photograph. After seeing the cult graffiti documentary Style Wars and book Subway Art, he realised the significance of capturing detail of movement. Participation in the graffiti and skate culture of the 90s and 2000s informed his developing interest in image capture and his photographic style. Brendan’s photography has allowed him to travel between Pakuranga, Miami and Detroit.

Rachel Liebert Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Rachel Jane Liebert is currently a PhD candidate and Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York. She draws on critical race, feminist and security studies to examine practices and politics of arousal and surveillance, and to co-organize a number of creative activist projects that protest the privatization and policing of our bodies and psyches including, most recently, The Porn Project.

Marie E. Potter is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist who has been committed to the N.Z. visual arts for over twenty five years. She was a part time faculty member of Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design from 1987-2001. She returned to W.C.A.D. in 2010 to achieve a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 2014 Marie will carry out a short term invited artist residency in the Wairarapa, re-evaluating N.Z. cultural and social traditions and artifacts loaded with history..

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