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Mushy Girl: Meat Up
Mushy Girl aka Delilah Lin aka Dee-Dee is fast-talking, quick-moving, up-and-coming hyper-hyphenated creative force to be reckoned with. Luckily, we managed to catch up with her and asked a few questions to get to know a bit more about her and her work.

Luna Leo Lee: Even Light Wiggles
Luna Leo Lee (they/them) is a unique emerging artist, who represent their experience of neurodiversity with their art. Even Light Wiggles is a beautiful celebration of this experience.

Braden White: Pallet Chair
Braden White (Ngāti Kahungunu) is a creative builder, intrepid traveller, and former underwater hockey champ. Here are a few questions we asked him to share more about Braden and the chair he made for Manzana using an original 1974 design by Italian designer Enzo Mari.

Cookie Essie: Garden Bliss
Shangshang Wang aka Cookie Essie is an Auckland-based artist and painter that has a thing for retro villas, nana’s slow life, and off-grid quirkiness. Here are a few questions we asked her to share more about Shangshang and the work.

Lilly Alexandra: How to Stay Sane
Lilly Alexandra’s print How to Stay Sane was as she puts it - “Created in a long as f lockdown during the covid pandemic.” Read our Q&A with her for more about her and the work.

Who are we?
Rachael Peri (Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe), Founder of Being Studio, Dil Khosa, Founder of Athena X, and Ché Zara Blomfield, Founder of Mañana Today and The Composing Rooms. Learn more about us!

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