Sue Gardiner and Megan Shaw on Various Artists, University of Auckland student radio

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28 March 2025

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On 28 March 2025, Sue Gardiner and Megan Shaw were interviewed by Sofia Roger Williams for Various Artists, an arts hour of interviews and reviews on 95bfm, the University of Auckland student radio. Sue and Megan enjoyed talking about the connections to the University revealed in the newly released Chartwell Project book titled Being, Seeing, Making, Thinking – 50 Years of the Chartwell Project. A number of the artists featured in the book were graduates or teachers at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University, and the selection of 50 texts in the book featured writers from the Art History Department. The book also details an important partnership, outlining the role of Te Rito Toi- CAST, The Centre for Social Transformation, as a Chartwell-supported Research Centre in the Faculty of Arts and Education.