Big Mac Slabs Creative Centre
Kāpiti Arts Trail: Listing 92
Artistic medium: Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics/pottery, Mosaic, Jewellery, Fibre/textiles, Glass, Woodwork, Metalwork, Garden art, Kids science art classes
Big Mac Slabs hosts many emerging and well-known artists and artisans year-round at the Big Mac Creative Centre, and welcomes additional artists to the site for the Arts Trail.
The Creative Centre was set up six years ago to support and encourage creativity in the district, especially emerging artists. A huge diversity of artworks is on display, with artists and artisans’ demonstrating their creative process between 10.30–2.30 during the days of the Arts Trail. Big Mac Slabs Creative Centre also offers to host groups by appointment in the week between the Arts Trail weekends.
Please note: There is plenty of parking on site, and there will be food, children’s activities and playground, and toilets available during the Arts Trail weekends.
Payment options available: Cash, eftpos, online banking
Contact details
Address: Big Mac Slabs Creative Centre, 289 Mazengarb Road, Paraparaumu
Open times during the year: Seven days a week, 10am–4pm
Website: bigmacslabs.co.nz/creative-centre/
Hub participants
2i2C Arts Guild
Artistic medium: Mixed media, fibre/textiles
An eclectic mix of emerging and more established artists in this group, drawing inspiration from the diversity of the creative community.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Andrea Liemburg
Artistic medium: Repurposing materials, woodwork
As an environmental artist, the materials themselves give Andrea inspiration for their evolution into furniture and other artworks with funky rustic charm.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 027 826 2461
Catherine Edwards
Artistic medium: Fibre/textiles
Catherine loves creating with textiles using colours and textures, culminating into her fabulous silk and merino shawls and scarves which feel luxurious to wear.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 027 373 5539
Dashford Glass
Artistic medium: Glass, jewellery
Taking inspiration from nature and the Kāpiti Environment, Caren and Derek create unique, bespoke artworks and jewellery in a stunning fusion of nature, colour, and glass.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 021 777 580
Dave Hogarth
Artistic medium: Metal art, Woodworking
Fascinating to watch, Dave takes a concept or problem from his clients and evolves it through his precision laser-cutting process to create an aesthetically pleasing and functional piece of art in metal or wood.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 021 277 4278
Holly Chapman
Artistic medium: Painting, drawing
Inspired by her love of animals, colour, and making people smile in a sometimes scary world, Holly's colourful "Critters" - real or imagined - are painted from her imagination or from giving new life and quirky characters to old paintings rescued from the tip.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Jane Woodhall
Artistic medium: Fibre/textiles
With a long experience of working with textiles as a costume designer and artist, Jane's extraordinary fibre art captures a "feeling" as well as a "scene" in a somehow timeless moment.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 027 2275 7720
John Meadows
Artistic medium: Photography
The colour and natural beauty of Kāpiti's amazing environment is captured in stunning colours in John's photography.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 027 234 1612
Jojo Hare
Artistic medium: Ceramics/pottery
Inspired by the nature around her - and her morning coffee - Jojo creates fanciful, tactile ceramics which balance form and function.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 021 0274 4181
Kāpiti Art Studio
Artistic medium: Painting, mixed media
Our mission is to foster and nurture the creativity that comes from within our differently abled artists, who have a deep passion for art.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Linda Mikkelsen
Artistic medium: Ceramics/pottery, sculpture
Linda's creative, colourful ceramics and sculptures of birds and animals are guaranteed to bring as much cheerfulness to your home and garden as they do to the artist.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mike Mealings
Artistic medium: Sculpture, woodwork
Mike is an environmental artist who creates memorable sculptures for the garden from recycled and repurposed wood and other materials.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 027 245 3643
Paula Peters
Artistic medium: Ceramics/pottery, mosaic
Paula is inspired by natural environments such as waterpools and native bush to create vibrant ceramic, glass and mosaic artworks in deep, reflective colours.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 027 946 1754
Sarah Kenworthy
Artistic medium: Mixed media, fibre/textiles
Science and art combine to enable children to actually create something, watching it transform almost magically into an artistic keepsake.
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 021 0222 9002
Wendi Lindsay
Artistic medium: Jewellery, ceramics/pottery
Well-known to many, Wendi creates dazzling and enchanting jewellery from a range of materials, including gold and silver, tiny glass sculptures, ceramics, and especially, dazzling Swarovski crystals in a range of styles and colours.
Contact details
Mobile: 021 046 0580