Gallery artist Shane Cotton is featured on Episode 51 of The Good Oil podcast.
In the episode, you’ll hear Shane talk about what he did and didn’t understand about painting when he arrived at art school, a moment that made him realise the diversity and monumental scope of Maori history and art history that set a path for him as a painter, his natural want to constantly be moving the practice stylistically, why there is a continued investigation of mokomokai as a subject, a sustained interest in painting tiki subjects as a way to explore carving outcomes with paint, and how those tiki paintings are a kind of ongoing way to complete the absence of a lot of art work in Nga Puhi marae.
Listen to the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
September 1, 2026
