If you’ve spent time here, you know it
well. You’ll know every curve and dip of the landscape as well as the lines on
the palm of your hand. The smell of the air, a mix of coffee and the salty
ocean. The foreboding grey clouds that hang over, ready to let loose. The
hidden masterpieces painted on the sides of the buildings.
As two lasses who both independently spent
time living overseas, returning to this place was pretty surreal. We forgot how
green the colour of the gardens is, how good the taste of the coffee is, how
rad the sound of the music is. Being born and raised here, we realised how much
we had taken for granted. This got us thinking… we adore this strange and
wonderful city in the south, and now we wanted to write all about it!
Our favourite thing about Dunedin is the
people. This melting pot of individuals have come together and cooked up this
awesome, artsy environment where there is a freedom to be creative. We have
painters, singers, actors, photographers, chefs, composers, designers, entrepreneurs,
dancers... There is so much talent here and more talent than meets the eye.
We want to celebrate it.
Which got us thinking even more… as well as
writing about Dunedin itself, how about we write about some of the talented
people that reside here?
Thus, on a frosty Saturday night in the
ballroom at Lanarch’s Castle, in scribbles on scrap paper scattered across one
of the dining tables – The Dunedin Artistry was born.