Liam Dangerfield
09.2015 - 10.2016
Painter
Lisa Tui
02.2016 - 08.2017
Lisa Tui Music
Louis Trerise
Louis Trerise
07.2016 - 10.2016
Photographer
Mark Chirnside
08.2014 - 02.2015
Chirny Coffee
Nick Sargent
04.2015 - 08.2015
Architectural Graduate
Paul Petch
05.2016 - 08.2017
Paul Petch Photography
Bex and Peter
07.2016 - 09.2016
Anteater
Juliet Arnott
03.2016 - 11.2017
Rekindle
Sarah Chapman
10.2016 - 05.2017
Innocent Packaging.
Sebastian Beyrer
03.2015 - 04.2015
Video Creative
Sharon Moreham
01.2017 - 05.2017
The Story Collective & The Cube
Shengd Will Sun
09.2015 - 10.2015
Artist - Maker Spotlight
Steve Brodie
03.2015
Film Maker - Low Tech Films
Tatyanna Meharry
03.2015 - 12.2015
The Busy Finch - Ceramicist
Tess Carney
07.2016 - 04.2017
Photographer
Tracy Smith
04.2015 - 01.2015
Miss Martini Corsets - Fashion Designer
Allen Carbon
Carbon Journal Photography
08.2016
Photographer - "I will always be a sensitive soul excited by any beauty in its supreme development...honesty about my imperfect and flawed life is important life is as important as portraying beauty. This is me. 90% of my life. Sitting on my bed. Editing on my computer." - Allen
Louise Landess
10.2016
Living gem of a human. Poet.
Eddie Brown
Builder // Upskill guru
08.2017 - 01.2018
Eddie wants to teach people basic carpentry and upskill others in the community. We've talked about everything from repair cafes to tool libraries, so keep an eye on what happens next.
True Panels
True Panels
07.2016
Our passion is it to make an impact on the nz building market. We want to change the nz housing market towards healthy, dry, low energy houses.
True Panels is specialised in constructing prefabricated low energy building shells and wall panels.
The wall panels are designed (see: Products, Workshop drawings) according to consented architectural drawings and engineers calculations.
Erin Lee
Photographer
11.2017
Erin Lee is an editorial and documentary photographer available for
projects worldwide. Erin currently resides in the South Island of New Zealand.
Viv Wotton
Artist, Photographer, and Creator.
10.2017
"An emerging artist, I aim to develop a voice through my art - creating something beautiful and perhaps question the viewer at the same time."
William Lecompte
Bitcoin Consulting Ltd // Founder
02.2018
William started investing in Cryptocurrencies in 2013, helping friends and family do the same along the way.
In 2017, William decided to take his passion for cryptocurrency to the next level, leaving behind a senior position as a civil engineer to start Bitcoin Consulting and spread the word of the technological and financial revolution
He can be your local partner if you have some interest in Bitcoin and is organizing some Free Bitcoin seminars here at the Xchc cafe.
Saskia Tranter
06.2018
instagram
Project Coordinator | Events Extraordinar | Social Media/Comms, for Ohu
Artist | Mom | Your best friend | Mr Browns adopted mother | Spiritual leader of the room (at all times)
Saskia always speaks from her heart, usually through excessive gesturing and spontaneous dance. She walks the talk of sustainable living… only her life is a catwalk… and she rocks the shit out of it.
“When I don’t have the right shoes for outfits, its not a good day.” - The last thing she said.. so you know she’s legit
Ohu
Office for Holistic Urbanism
10.2016
Ohu is creating a new way of being where people and communities are at the heart of property development. We work with communities to develop assets which will sustain and strengthen their community. We believe it is possible for people with a common purpose to work together to collectively create and own assets that generate both a social and economic value. Ohu Development is developing the infrastructure needed to support communities to collectively own what they create together, including property, financial, legaland social structures.
Levi Johnson
LeviShazam
06.2018
Freelancer | Graphic Design | Photo/Video
Instagram
Levi is a jack of all trades.. like all the cool ones. He even asked if he could build us a tool library. Not “hey, you know what this place needs, YOU should start a tool library”.. but, “Hey, can I help by building a tool library?” Boom.
Traveller, acro-yogi, plays fetch when Walter the cat king throws him the ball.
Lucia Kux
06.2018
Illustrator // Visual Artist
The RAD Collective
Website | Instagram | The Rad Collective
Lucia is the RAD’s resident international artist! From an early age, she started running around the streets of Berlin experimenting with graffiti. From here her passion grew for street art, graffiti and typography. A visual artist, her talent goes far beyond the street and spray cans, taking her love for graffiti into intricate and beautiful typography. Bringing the street to The RAD, Lucia’s work is unlike anyone else’s and we are so lucky to have her!
Suzanne Alward
06.2018
Multidisciplinary Artist
Website | Instagram
Poet | Potter | Drawer | Animator | Sculptor | Fashion Designer | Ceramicist (and yes I’m forgetting 1 or 5)
Not just an incredibly beautiful and creative thinker, Suzanne turns everything she touches into a one-of-a-kind treasure. When she’s not playing on a slack-line, rock-climbing, doing acro-yoga, or with her kitten Walter, she’s probably playing somewhere else. Her hugs will change the way you feel about life.
Joshua Jones
06.2018
Film Producer // Photographer
The RAD Collective
Josh is a film producer with a love for visual arts. On the way up, Josh’s core focus is aligning his passion with his revenue – telling popular stories through the camera. Josh is highly involved in the arts, working on Street Prints 2017 and also doing personal photography and videography in his spare time. Our team wouldn’t have that natural appeal without him and we’re stoked to have him on board!
Sylvia Houston
RAG: Repair > Alterations > Garments
08.2015
Sylvia is a fashion designer who's passionate about upcycling; re-creating clothing into boutique 1-of-a-kind garments. Let's target the waste from the garment industry, the 2nd biggest cause of waste in the world! She also does custom design for local theatre companies including Free Theatre. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook for updates
Stephanie Defregger
HANDMADE PHOTOGRAPHY.
06.2018
Creative - Directrice of the photography business
Loves - adventures.Is curious about - learning new things & meeting new people.
Adores - design, art and beauty.
Passionate about - transformations of places, situations, communities and people.
Favourite word - “Awesome.”
(makes the best chocolate cake you’ll ever taste!)
Craig Jarvis
Harmonic Architecture
03.2016
Architect | Outdoors
Craig Jarvis is an architectural designer with a passion for simplicity and sustainability. His TEDx talk reflects his desire to design real, ecological, regenerative and affordable residential dwellings,
promoting materials, building systems & technics that are truly green.
Simone Bensdorp
Felt maker
Simone is the maker behind Wild Felt, a constantly growing collection of felted accessories, slippers, jewelery and strange sea creatures... If you can imagine it, she can felt it! She gets excited about all things wool, sustainable crafts and pushing creative boundaries. When she's not felting, Simone also loves making shoes, zines, poems and coleslaw.
06.2018
Mark Chirnside
Chirny Coffee
08.2016
Coffee expert and classically trained musician.
"I built a coffee roaster in 2007, and have been roasting since. I am always looking for more interesting, tasty coffee (All ethically produced) to roast, from discerning sources... Join me in my coffee adventure, with fresh roasted specialty coffee delivered fresh to your door!"
Veronika Hegedus-Gaspar
09.2016
Photographer
Mcchesney Kelly-Adams | Illustration/Realism
06.2018
Artist | Smartass | Illustrator (in that order)
Instagram
Tattoo Enthusiast and Cat/Dr. Marten collector from another planet (pretty sure) Mcchesney (Chez) produces illustrations and art with a focus mainly on realism. Besides being a crazy creative witch medusa loving demon spawn of artistic realism/snake charmer 🐍, Mcchesney drinks gin and threatens to paint “something pink” (bet it’ll be a snake) one day. I hope not. Welcome to XCHC
Talya Willson
05.2018
Graphic Designer | Illustrator | Sign-Writer
website | Instagram
Starting off with crayons as a kid and some “holiday art classes, painting watercolors with my Nan and a very old SLR camera”, Talya has paved her way to studying a Bachelor of Applied Visual Imaging and pursuing her design work full time.
With a broad background in both fine and visual arts she can tackle almost any creative project you or your business might have.
Isla Stewart
10.2017
Bitx | Web Design
Yes. We put crypto pro’s in the same room as artists. And its awesome.
The Isla provides high volume and diverse cryptocurrency brokering and consultation to customers in NZ and Australia.
The Rad Collective
06.2018
website | facebook | instagram
This RAD team is full of designers, musicians, illustrators, journalists, visual artists, film makers, marketers, social media guru’s and more.
Established in the hope to inspire ourselves and each other and create more opportunities for potential collaborations, freelance work and to also capture the heart and soul of Christchurch from the young creatives eye.
Focusing on artistic talent, special places, skate and street culture, the best coffee, sick gigs and well being; a mish mash of collective and radical ideas, we hope you enjoy our content just as much as we did creating it.
KUVA DAS ZAKHEIM
Website | Facebook | Instagram
Designer | Curator & Conservator | Kirtaneer | Philosopher
Kuva spent most of his adult life as a 1st world refugee in India, observing and studying the traditional arts and philosophies of India's rich cultural heritage. Formally trained as an Art Conservator in Los Angeles, Kuva now curates and conserves the sacred, having revived the traditional art of handblock printed Mantra scarves in India with his brand Nam Walli. Kuva has curated sacred spaces through large scale decor at sacred music festivals and events across Europe and America. You'll find him at XCHC always tinkering, inventing, designing & philosophising.
HILARY JEAN TAPPER
Website | Facebook | Instagram
Illustrator | Dollmaker | Filmmaker
Hilary is a freelance illustrator & filmmaker, and is the designer and maker of Courage Dolls. Her illustrations seek to ignite the inner child, her film work celebrates the simple and natural beauty of life and makers, and her dolls are made to inspire and empower their beholder, to have courage to follow their heart. Hilary also enjoys facilitating self discovery workshops through illustrative journalling and dollmaking for all age groups.
James Durcan
Graduate architect by day, artist by night. James Durcan is a Christchurch based painter, specialising in contemporary fine art.
His paintings look to capture a different angle or detail of an ordinary moment. Whether that is amplifying the scale of an object or expressing the richness of colour present within our physical environment.
A new comer to the art scene, James has been a resident artist at the Exchange since February 2019.
Alex Stuart
Hi I am Alex Stuart and I am a freelance videographer/ content creator. I specialise in creating video content for small businesses whether it be events, products, testimonials or even brand videos.
I also provide website design services, I can help you set up a website right from scratch including creating your logo/branding and shooting photos for the website. I work off the Shopify platform which is great for those wanting to sell items online, or the Squarespace platform which is great for showcasing your products or services in a beautiful minimalistic layout.
Instagram | Facebook
Selina
Selina wears many hats, she works part time at Ara (Christchurch Polytechnic) as an Employability Advisor as well as run the operations of The Conscious Club, she likes to make sure everyone has food and events runs smoothly. Selina has a passion for diversity including her pasifika heritage, as well as raising awareness on environmental issues in our community.
Alongside Conscious Club & Ara she has a creative business Bee Weave where she creates beautiful woven wall art for your home. She uses a mixture of gorgeous fibres to create texture and depth in her pieces. All weaves are handmade locally on Christchurch with inspiration drawn from our natural surroundings.
Ira Mitchell | Painter
Queenstown Born, Ira now calls Christchurch home; where she works full time as an artist and tutor. Her work is bright, minimalist, and bold, reflecting her impressions of the stunning landscapes of Aotearoa. Community is also close to her heart, contributing regularly by way of donating time and art to help support local and international causes. Her work has been recognised with NZer of the Year, Local Hero awards and a Civic Award.
Supporting and encouraging her peers and the next generation, Ira is a contributing writer for NZ artist Magazine; speaking about emerging artists. Ira is also a representative of Golden Artist Paints, New York as an Artist Educator. Regularly travelling to residencies, learning and showing her art, Ira has built a life completely bathed in colour, meaning and connections.
website | facebook | instagram
Credentials:
DipVisCom, BFADesign, PostGradDipSectech
Gill Weavers
Gill Weavers is the ceramic artist behind Mudbird Ceramics. She is a multidiscipline designer with a passion for creating and making. Gill is a hand builder using a range of clays from porcelain to earthenware. Creating in small batch quantities enables creativity with glaze designs and seasonal ranges. Gill also hosts workshops, sells at craft markets, online and from her XCHC studio.
shop | facebook | instagram
Laurent Youm
Passionate about videography and photography I bought my first drone back in 2013 and have been hooked ever since. Originally from the south of France, I arrived in Christchurch almost 4 years ago after a 15-month trip from Russia to New Zealand, crossing over places such as Russia, Mongolia, the Great Wall of China and Indonesia.
After travelling to over 20 countries with my drone capturing amazing landscapes, I have now created my own videography business and have the privilege to live in this amazing country full of spectacular landscapes.
Cata & Nata
We are Cata & Nata, twin sisters who have been working in all different areas as Industrial Designers. We believe is important to keep learning from new disciplines, different points of views and cultures.
It is in New Zealand where we have decided to design for children, as fashion design has consciously been one of the fields of design that we have always been interested to approach.
Vida Zelenka
Fashion Design | facebook
Helen
Photography & Videography
My journey behind the camera has taken me to so may different places, from filming weddings and events to photographing incredible landscapes. I've created behind-the-scenes content for theatre companies, interviewed creatives, business owners and members of the public, photographed products and shot branding imagery.
Over the past year, I've realised by passion lies in particular with working with creatives and conscious brands, helping them to tell their stories through thoughtful and engaging visuals.
I also have a personal love of capturing nature and the outdoors, which I will be exploring further in the coming year.
Isaac McCarthy
Sandrine
Shannon
Tyler
Antoine
Samuel Lewis
Kia ora lovely humans, I’m Samuel your resident stop motion animator, illustrator, crafty bastard and pickle tee-shirt designer. I work at a studio during the day and have been hanging out in the evenings at XCHC. Currently editing animation and attempting to fashion a jacket out of sleeping bags. I’ll be at the gallery opening tonight so hopefully meet y’all then if I haven’t already! ^___^
Jack
Painter & Illustrator
This Jack reaches deep inside it's shifting form, a human body. From inside his mind a line is pulled, producing surrealist horror that mixes beauty with the grotesque. Always with mood, they often use irony and a sprinkling of humour. Jack explores gender, mental health, and sexuality, with overarching themes of death and decay. If her work intrigues you, crouch in a dark corner, shut your eyes and whisper Jack three times.
Enoch
Pryal Patel
Hi I’m Priyal. I’m a painter, medical student, big smiler and adventurer. I come from South Africa, growing up between New Zealand, South Africa and Botswana. From the travelling through my teens I feel lucky to have had the chance to learn and experience so many different cultures. Along the way I’m finding out more about myself, how I fit in the western and eastern world, how I fit in the science and art world, creating my own cultural identity and expressing this through painting. XCHC is giving me the confidence to experiment, make mistakes and purely enjoy the process of creating. I can’t wait to share some of my creations.
Amethyst | Tattoo Artist
Kerri | Fashion & Alterations
02.2016
Fashion designer. Great smile!
Jeff Packard
Photographer
website
instagram
facebook
story:
Creative entrepreneur currently travelling the world. Prior to packing his life into a 40L backpack in 2016, he was the CEO of Alodyne, and energy company he cofounded seven years prior.
His career has spanned many industries, from being involved with starting a tech company which was later sold to Google, consulting and investing in real estate development projects in both California and Maine, Executive Producing an independent feature film set in Los Angeles and New York, and now having been a professional photographer for the last several years, with highlights including being part of an intimate photo team for Michelle and President Barack Obama in Singapore, and Simon Sinek in San Francisco and Santa Santa Cruz.
Bubbles (Michael)
Software Developer
Working primarily in frontend web development, during their stay at XCHC they'll be working on freelance web projects, to artist portfolios, to dabbling in writing generative digital art.
Adam Hayward
08.2014 - 02.2015
Body Festival
Adam Hutchinson
07.2015 - 05.2016
Geozone
Adrienne Millwood
01.2015 - 02.2015
Visual Artist
Alex Parsons
05.2015-07.2015
Web Designer
Alex Mann
11.2015 - 08.2016
Website designer
Alicia Erceg
12.2016 - 10.2017
Bunch Floral
Amanda Brooking
08.2015
Printmaker and Textile Artist
Maker Spotlight
Amelia Pascoe
09.2016 - 02.2017
Jewelry Maker
Barnaby Bennett
06.2015-08.2015
Freerange Press & Te Pūtahi
Bex and Peter
07.2016 - 09.2016
Anteater
Brenda Knight
04.2017-05.2017
Become a Creative Giant
Bridget McKendry & Carl Pavletich
08.2014 - 02.2015
Fab Lab
Charles Hannah
04.2015 - 12.2015
Charles Hannah Art & Design
Courtney Spargo
Deb Robertson
11.2015 - 01.2017
Writer and Quilt maker
Dr Jessica Halliday
08.2014 - 10.2014
Festival of Transitional Architecture
Dr. Zita Joyce
07.2015 -01.2016
Aotearoa Digital Arts
Eloise Pengelly
03.2016 - 5.2016
Painter
Erica Austin
09.2014 - 05.2015
Studio Christchurch
Gaby Montejo
11.2014
Artist - The Social
Heather Milne
10.2016 - 04.2017
Takahe Marketing & Design
Holly Ross
02.2015 - 05.2015
Artist
Ira Mitchel
03.2015 - 04.2015
Painter
Janneth Gil
12.2017 - 06.2017
Photographer
Jacqueline Jacky Morren
09.2016
Jewelry Maker
Jonathan Hall
08.2014
Greening the Rubble
Julian Vares
Julian Vares
08.2014
Director and Cinematographer
Justin Leadbetter
11.2015 - 05.2016
Leadbetter Carr Architects
Kimberlee Rose
07.2017
Painter & Tattoo Artist
Kyungmi Kim
09.2016
Dancer & Choreographer
ZeroGravity&Co
Alysha
I do paintings and am currently working on a portfolio of tattoo designs for a tattoo studio in Christchurch to secure my apprenticeship.
A lot of my Paintings and Tattoo designs are primarily Black and Grey, and I draw my inspiration from many different topics Including Greek, Roman and Norse Mythology, Oriental Culture such as Japanese and Chinese culture, Anime, Manga and surrealism as well realistic images. I can also work in colour and am quite flexible with different styles of art.
Kophie
06.2018
Graphic Designer // Illustrator
website | @kophie | @future_nz
“I love getting my hands dirty in any creative outlet.
I have worked on many projects usually with an environmental or political motivation.
Currently I am working on a sustainable street wear brand Future Apparel that uses waste and by products of fast fashion to create new commodities. Aside from art and design I love to explore Aotearoa, practice yoga and drink coffee ;-)” - Kophie
Noelle
Lou
Hi artists of Xchc! I’m Lou (she/her), currently working as an Art teacher at Hagley College. I grew up in Chch, then moved back 3 years ago and I’m so excited to have joined [this] creative community! I mostly paint, walls and canvas or anything I can find, often swinging toward the surreal/visionary style but forever changing :)
Ra
I really love to sew, to create and add and alter. I'm still learning techniques and tidy sewing skills but I love to play with fabric and textures. Especially velvet!
I'm really interested in resource recovery, upcycling, how to create something functional and beautiful from what would otherwise be thrown away.
One of my favourite forms of creative expression is movement and I really love fire spinning.
I also hold connection as a really valuable creative tool in my life. Learning to openly connect with trust and compassion in every moment. Not sure where I found this quote but I like it, "creativity; is about the life we navigate. One courageous choice at a time."
So many creative outlets that I want to explore, but for now I'm really grateful to have settled in a supportive space. Giving myself time to creatively nourish my bones and also do the important thing of figuring out how to financially support myself in a way that is sustainable and gives me joy.
Sam
Diana
Hamish | Tattoo Artist
Ekaterina | Painter
Joss | DJ | Sound Engineer
Joss is an innovator in his approach to developing his music career and brand VOID SOUND. He’s progressed from mixing to organizing some of Ōtautahi’s best nightlife events that feature emerging artists in music, visuals, and installation-based work.
He has performed and sound engineered at festivals around Aotearoa and produced a number of new multi-genre events such as Slow Motion (downtempo), Matters of the Heart (organica), Sustain Release (techno & breaks), and has worked directly with some of the top electronic music producers in NZ such as Paige Julia and Sanoi.
He is a core member of the Mary Hush collective producing intentional and immersive nightlife events and band-member of BEACON BLOOM
MIXCLOUD | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK
Sophie Angelica | Sculpture & Illustration
Sophie Angelica is a multidisciplinary artist from Ōtautahi, specialising in sculpture and illustration. With meticulous attention to detail and intricate pen work, Angelica draws from patterns of movement and form observed in the natural world. Her vast and elaborate inkscapes consider the temporality of all life, weaving together visual sanctuaries for the mind.
Angelica’s practice identifies storytelling as one of the most crucial tools available at our fingertips; not only does it provide us with an intrinsic understanding of our pasts but also with intuitive solutions on how to move forward. The rites of passage witnessed and thresholds transversed within the liminal architecture constructed by our stories enables a holistic understanding of not only what it is to be human, but also what it is to be a small but inextricable link in the cyclical ways of the natural world.
Edward (Optiphonic) | Digital Artist and Developer
Edward is a digital artist and developer from Ōtautahi. His primary creative output is reactive visual systems for music events - virtual worlds that react to music and can be controlled during a performance. He is also an experienced technology developer with a degree and experience with app/web design & development along with a range of other technologies.
After working for a year at TASKA then taking time off, he has moved back home and into the exchange to focus on turning his wide array of skills into sustainable & gratifying self-employment.
Dell Reuben (DeeBoy.Ink) | Tattoo Artist & Illustrator
Ōtautahi based Tattoo Artist with 12 years of experience practicing in Australia and owning Tattoo shops in Perth, Phillip Island & Bali.
“I recently moved back to NZ to be closer to whanau and on a mission to bring my brand of super bright colour work and love for all things Nerdy to the NZ Tattoo scene and possibly help bring a bit more light and legitimacy to this amazing industry that has given me so much freedom.
I also have a real passion for helping talented artists (not just Tattoo Artists) find a way to get out of the rat race and start making a healthy living off something that they love to do. Ive coached several artists who have now gone on to be successful full-time practitioners; a few now own their own Tattoo Shops.”
Robbi Carvalho | Acrylic | Ink | Digital
Robbi Carvalho is a visual storyteller who celebrates the feminine.
Her career as an architect and jewelry designer has refined her look and technique, but it is in painting that she feels free.
Robbi is Brazilian, lived in Portugal, Angola and chose Aotearoa as her home. The women she portrays tell us that there is something intimate and silent that unites them, no matter where they come from or where they go.
Her art invites you to a meditative dive. An encounter with your intuition and more subtle energies, where nature cares and heals.
T.R. Price- Regenerative Finance
With a background in ecosystem service valuation (provision of great quality and quantity of water, soil, air) through spatial analysis (satellite data). T.R. comes from Colorado in the United States to Christchurch for a PhD in Environmental Economics.
Having developed various decentralized organizations (DAOs) and been alongside cryptocurrency people like Charged Particles, Giveth and NFTP presenting thoughts and ideas, they are very open to new ideas. In their youth they created found-object statues and did art shows with artists that helped to co create the central statues of burning man some years.
Brand new to the New Zealand scene, they are here to learn and collaborate with artists and other open-minded people in envisioning new economic realities that truly embody what we believe in (environmental and social justice).