This weeks episode is with Naomi Azoulay a Tāmaki Makaurau–based artist whose work explores the emotional landscapes of resilience, transformation, and social change.
Working in portraiture across collage and painting, she portrays women with strength, agency, and defiance, celebrating feminine rage as a catalyst for social change.
With a background in visual arts and community engagement, her practice connects personal experience with broader questions of representation and inclusivity.
Through vibrant colour, layered textures, and emotionally charged imagery, Azoulay invites viewers to pause and reflect on their own emotions.
Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she continues to develop projects that foster dialogue and solidarity across diverse communities.
https://www.instagram.com/naomi_azoulay_collage
https://www.instagram.com/naomi_azoulay_art
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About your host:
Kate Hursthouse is a practising artist and trainee Creative Arts Therapist with over a decade of creative and community experience. She combines her background in design, illustration, and arts education with a growing therapeutic practice centred on inclusion, emotional wellbeing, and creative expression. Guided by empathy and curiosity, Kate supports individuals and groups to explore identity, connection, and growth through the transformative process of art-making.
She started this podcast to try and answer the question: how do we continue to be creative and produce creative work, while raising children? Her goal is to create a little corner of the internet where creative mothers share their stories and gain a feeling of community, understanding and inspiration.
https://www.katehursthouse.com/
https://www.instagram.com/katehursthouse/
https://www.instagram.com/creativemotherpodcast/
A huge thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Scheme for supporting this season of the podcast.
