Contributors for ETNZ’s Giacomo Joyce
Julian Peters
Julian Peters is a comics artist and illustrator, who also teaches Italian Language and Culture at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada. In 2014, he obtained a master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University (Montreal) with a thesis focusing on two early, experimental graphic novels, Dino Buzzati’s Poema a fumetti (1969) and Martin Vaughn-James’s The Projector (1971). In 2015, he was Cartoonist in Residence at Wai-te-ata Press, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His debut collection of adaptations of classic English-language poems into comics, Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry, was published in 2020 by Plough Books. He is currently working on a follow-up volume, as well as a comic-book adaptation of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
Sarah Laing
Sarah Laing is a fiction writer and graphic artist. She comes at books from all angles, writing as well as designing and illustrating them. The author of a graphic memoir, two novels, and a collection of short stories, she has also illustrated children’s books and designed and co-edited an anthology of Aotearoa/NZ women’s comics.
Tyler Shane Tesolin
Tyler Shane Tesolin was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He completed both his Undergraduate degree and Master's degree in Cinema and Media Studies at York University in Toronto. Tesolin has been making movies his entire life, focusing primarily on the intersection between film poetry and documentary. His first feature film, Planet Sarajevo, was screened in the BH program of the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2020. Tesolin currently resides in Wellington, New Zealand with his wife, where he is completing a research creation PhD in Film at Victoria University in Wellington.
Dame Fiona Kidman
Dame Fiona Kidman is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story writer. She grew up in Northland, and began writing novels in the late 1970s, with her works often inspired by her involvement in the women's liberation movement. Over the course of her career, Kidman has written eleven novels, seven short-story collections, two volumes of her memoirs and six collections of poetry. Her works explore women's lives and issues of social justice, and often feature historical settings.
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera is an international indigenous novelist of Māori descent (Te Whānau a Kai and Ngāti Porou). A hardworking and versatile writer, four of his books have been made into the films The Whale Rider, White Lies, Mahana and Kawa (Nights in the Gardens of Spain). He lives in Auckland.
Contributors for ETNZ’s Invisible Cities
William du Toit
Beginning with formal education in architecture, William’s practice stems from a foundation of orthographic drawing and techniques. William’s work has been previously exhibited at The Sir John Soane Museum in London, as well as Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery and The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts both in Wellington. Now based in historic Arrowtown, the contrast between the dramatic alpine landscape and gold mining artifacts is a constant source of inspiration. William’s focus has now turned to exploring these relationships through intagilo monoprinting.