Local Making: Resourceful Makers in Residence 2025–2026
Warm welcome to our 2025–2026 Resourceful Makers in Residence — we’re excited to have you making us!
Local Makers are invited to undertake a micro-residency with Local Making. Residents are encouraged to conduct creative research in response to themes of reuse, repair, and circular making — with a focus on e-waste, textile waste, and other hard-to-recycle materials. Participants receive a project fee, access to waste streams, technical support, and collaborative brainstorming sessions, while documenting their experiments and outcomes on their blogs below.
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Residency Photo Journal
A collection of moments, visits, and small happenings from the project as it unfolds. Wednesday 15th OctoberHannah and Chris made an impromptu visit, with Chris offering delicious traditional Manaki: sweet hot chocolate (served in uncollected student work from Jack Tilson’s Wood-Fired Pottery School), baked kūmara, and freshly foraged weeds! Wednesday 12th November Kristan larsen plays…
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Hannah-Lee Jade
Hannah-Lee Jade is a textile artist and designer from Auckland, New Zealand, known for her work at the intersection of art, ecology, and material innovation. Her work focuses on sustainability and circular design, exploring how to transform waste into new materials, particularly through research into biomaterials like mycelium. Hannah has experience in fashion design and…
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Kristian Larsen
Kristian Larsen is a Tamaki Makaurau based multi-disciplinary artist: dancer / choreographer / musician / composer / writer / researcher / teacher / improviser. Working at the edges of contemporary dance and experimental music in live performance, Larsen’s performances describe relationships between the somatic and the acoustic through creative misuses of dance techniques and audio…
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Chris Berthelsen
Chris has lived most of his life in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. At the moment he also spends a lot of time in Matsuyama, Japan where he is doing a programme of artistic research at the Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University as an associate professor attached to the Japanese Government’s weather control project, Moonshot…