They were sketched amid the hell of Gallipoli, drew the complements of the WW1 campaign’s foremost generals, and were later shown before the Royal Family.

The opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.

Matt Gauldie has been the New Zealand Army’s artist for 10 years. He talks to Jennifer Dann about his work and the places it has taken him.

The Kiss Inside, an exposition on the primal search for ecstasy, finds him in a new frame of mind though, with an underlying wryness to his observations, anger mitigated, the passion wiser.

Art critics are impressed with the controversial $1.5 million sculpture planned for Queens Wharf, but it has been labelled a monstrosity and joke by some.

A Brazilian artist has come up with a quirky solution of whether to rock a beard or go clean shaven in his new selfie project.

The controversial $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf is being made more in keeping with its state house roots.

Budding Kiwi artists will next week have the chance to wow a top Weta Workshop designer.

A young Kiwi will fulfil a dream today when she dances lead ballerina in Swan Lake, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet.

The world's art lovers voted with their feet to make an 86-year-old Japanese woman the most popular artist of last year.