Press Releases

When the world’s largest sheep producer is also globally famous for its sporting prowess, it was only a matter of time before someone in New Zealand put two and two (or should we say, ewe and ewe) together.

New Zealand artist Judy Millar, who is currently exhibiting at the 2009 Venice Biennale, has been awarded a visual arts residency in New York.

Two of New Zealand’s leading artists will spend six months exhibiting their work at the 2009 Venice Biennale – the world’s most significant visual arts event.

A New Zealand bar has paid tribute to Scottish songbird Susan Boyle by creating a cocktail in honour of the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ contestant.

A New Zealand campaigner responsible for negotiating international peace deals has received a prestigious award known as the alternative Nobel Prize.

Re-tracing the footsteps of New Zealand’s early settlers across some of the country’s most remote and dramatic landscape has become an annual pilgrimage that will see this year’s Cavalcade journey end with a hoedown in Wanaka, Central Otago.

Kiwis (the non-feathered variety) have gone to the polls to elect a new top bird and - in what’s promising to be a closely fought election - some native species have even hired campaign managers to boost their roost.

A programme to save an endangered bird is having a commercial spin-off for New Zealand’s lucrative wine-growing industry.

New Zealand is riding the crest of a wave of surfing popularity with some of the sport’s top competitions – including the Dream Tour and the World Junior championships – to be held at the country’s top breaks this summer.

For the sixth year in a row, New Zealand has been ranked in the world’s top five best destinations by readers of prestigious Condé Nast Traveller magazine.