Mya Morrison-Middleton (Ngāi Tahu) is an artist, writer and organiser based in Ōtepoti. She currently works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Otago University. More recently she has exhibited at Paemanu: Tauraka Toi, and co-curated He Reka Te Kūmara.

Mya Morrison-Middleton (Ngāi Tahu) is an artist, writer and organiser based in Ōtepoti.

Mya Morrison-Middleton

Mya Morrison-Middleton meets up with ringatoi Aidan Taira Geraghty and Moewai Marsh to kōrero about their current exhibition 'Ka kore, Kua kore' at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Ōtepoti.


Off The Beaten Track with Aidan Geraghty and Moewai Marsh

Turumeke Harrington is a refreshing force in Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu. This Kāi Tahu artist makes the type of big-picture, approachable art that plays in the background of people’s minds as they are falling asleep, dreaming big. Mya Morrison-Middleton sits down to interview Turumeke about her career so far.

Living and Ripening: Turumeke Harrington

Something new is brewing in Ōtepoti and Kāi Tahu theatre. Mya Morrison-Middleton responds to the ill-fated journey of a Māori wahine in 80's smoke-filled Ōtepoti, intersected with Tānemahuta and Hineahuone's love story. 

The World’s First Lovers 

Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Aotearoa’s largest contemporary art showcase, wrestles with the tension of art as money-making, and recaps her faves.

Highlights and Reflections on the Aotearoa Art Fair

Mya Morrison-Middleton in conversation with Fully Explicit founder Creamy Mami, who took DJing and partying out of the boys’ club by catering to the freaks.


It's All About the Drama, Really

Vanessa 梅 (they/she) is an arts polymath, Libra with fire placements and the current Kaitohu of The Pantograph Punch. Since graduating from AUT with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2017, they have worked across the sector as a poet, performer, artist, sports commentator and freelancer for anyone that paid her (and a few that didn't). Previous roles include producing, curating, writing and comms management for the likes of Basement Theatre, Window Gallery, and Pantograph! Most recently they were the Director of Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 2020 – 2022. She is interested in relational approaches to wellbeing as a neurodivergent girly, Queer and migrant theory, anime and arts publishing. Their debut collection of poetry can be found in AUP New Poets 6, published by Auckland University Press.

Vanessa 梅 (they/she) is an artist, writer and the current Kaitohu of The Pantograph Punch. Get in touch at vanessa@pantograph-punch.com!

Vanessa Mei 

Ana McAllister (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou) is a mana wāhine Māori intersectional feminist. Growing up as a self-proclaimed white-passing diasporic Māori, Ana has occupied both Pākehā and Māori spaces whilst simultaneously never completely fitting in either. Ana is a published poet, performance and installation artist, protest organiser, academic and researcher whose work occupies a complex space within Te Ao Māori; interweaving responsibilities to tikanga Māori, mana wāhine, with contemporary ideas of sexuality, modern cultural identities, and social media. They were a Staff Writer at The Pantograph Punch 2021 – 2022.

Ana (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou) is a poet, performance artist, protest organiser, academic and researcher.

Ana McAllister

Ataria Rangipikitia Sharman (Tapuika, Ngāpuhi) is a writer of essays, poetry and articles. She was the Editor – Kaupapa Māori, and Editor at The Pantograph Punch from 2019 – 2022. Ataria has a Master of Arts in Māori Studies and spent a year researching mana wahine and atua wāhine as well as interviewing Māori women about their experiences with atua wāhine. The manuscript for her children's fiction novel Hine and the Tohunga Portal was one of five selected for Te Papa Tupu in 2018, and has now been published with Huia Publishers. She has self-published a collection of writings by wāhine Māori on the atua wāhine. Ataria is the creator of Awa Wahine.

Ataria (Tapuika, Ngāpuhi) is an editor and writer based in Whangārei, Te Tai Tokerau. 

Ataria Sharman

The Pantograph Punch team humbly acknowledges all that photosynthesising green beings do for us and our ora.

We Give Eternal Thanks to Bush

Mya Morrison-Middleton on what inspires her.

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Off The Beaten Track with Aidan Geraghty and Moewai Marsh

Living and Ripening: Turumeke Harrington

The World’s First Lovers

Highlights and Reflections on the Aotearoa Art Fair

It's All About the Drama, Really

We Give Eternal Thanks to Bush

Loose Canons: Mya Morrison-Middleton