News, Articles & Imagery from Lifeform Labs

The Blackball Bathhouse

March 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

This video started with an early morning wander around Blackball while there on holiday in December 2020. The project turned into something of a collaboration when I made contact with […]

Maidenhair Spleenwort – Asplenium trichomanes

March 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

We were a-wandering in the Takaka Hills the other day when we came across some healthy looking Maidenhair spleenwort ferns.

Mātātā – Ring fern – Paesia scaberula

February 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

The Mātātā or Ring fern is also known as the Lace fern (easy to see why), the Scented fern (due to the scent given off when the fronds are warm) […]

Coffee Roasting in Blackball – West Coast, New Zealand

February 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

Here’s a short video I made about a roastery in Blackball featuring master roaster Will Cleaver.

Tarawera – Button Fern – Pellaea Rotundifolia

February 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

The Button fern, also known as the Round-leaved fern and the New Zealand cliff brake is endemic to New Zealand and seems to be quite a popular house plant. It […]

Kiwikiwi – Creek Fern – Blechnum Fluviatile

December 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Creek fern is native to New Zealand (where it’s also known by an alternative Maori name Kiwakiwa) and southeast Australia where it is known as the Ray water-fern – […]

Lee Woodman – ‘PROP’ – July 2020 [Video]

August 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

Lee Woodman’s latest exhibition at the G-Space gallery in Nelson – ‘Prop’.

‘PROP’ an Installation by Lee Woodman [Images]

August 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

Lee Woodman examines the relationship between the structures of scaffold which are temporary or secondary in nature and the ‘other thing’ the scaffold supports.