Blue Oyster Online Publications 

By Chloe Geoghegan | Posted:

A new and exciting creative arts initiative by Dunedin's very own Blue Oyster Art Project Space.

Thanks to the renewed support of our programme from Creative New Zealand, we have developed a new biannual online publication initiative. Designed to support local collaborations between emerging artists, writers and designers, the publications enhance the relationship between art and the written word. The publications will remain accessible on the Blue Oyster website.

The first edition was launched in June 2015 in conjunction with the NZ Young Writers Festival and is titled Llyr. The publication takes form as a collaborative exercise between Dunedin based painter Ella Knapton and Port Chalmers based poet Hera Lindsay Bird, moving between poetic erasures and painterly drawings in an online format.

Ella Knapton graduated from the Dunedin School of Art in 2014. Hera Lindsay Bird holds an MA in poetry from Victoria University.