Kate watts is a Textile Designer and manufacturer based in North east Valley, with a bachelor of design (craft) from Christchurch Polytechnic in 2001, and a Masters in Visual arts in Textiles from Otago Polytechnic in 2019.

She has been manufacturing and wholesaling merino gloves to 100 stores within NZ since 2018, and has more recently been working on a new creative project Among the Sparrows, which has a focus on textile design, homewares and a new series of creative workshops, based from her North East Valley workshop and shop front.

Katharine Allard is an Ōtepoti Dunedin based artist with over twenty years experience exhibiting, curating, teaching and arts management. Katharine specialises in drawing botanical and landscape works in metal point and spends a lot of time experimenting with historic and contemporary artist materials in her home studio.

Exploring the endlessly fascinating and varied medium of printmaking for over 30 years, Kyla relishes the opportunity to introduce it to others through her Little Prints Printmaking workshops. Kyla’s background includes directing a works on paper gallery, art curation, tutoring and other work in the arts sector. Working from her home studio in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Kyla’s practice encompasses drypoints, mezzotints and embossings.