Phil Dadson ONZM was founder of the acclaimed music group From Scratch. He lectured at the Elam School of Fine Arts from 1977, leaving in 2001 to take up full-time art practice. In 2010 the Wellington Sculpture Trust commissioned his Akau Tangi, a wind-powered sculpture on Cobham Drive. In 2015, the feature film Sonicsfromscratch, documenting Dadson's career, premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival. He is a 2001 Arts Foundation Laureate, and is a recipient of a New Zealand Antarctic Artist Fellowship and a Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Awards. Dadson is represented by Trish Clark Gallery in Auckland. He lives in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Nic Low (Ngai Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former co-director of WORD Christchurch. An author of short fiction, essays and criticism, his writing on wilderness, technology and race has been widely published and anthologised on both sides of the Tasman. He received the 2018 CLNZ Writers' Award, and his story collection Arms Race was named a New Zealand Listener and Australian Book Review Book of the Year. His 2021 book, Uprising, detailed nine walking expeditions into the Ngai Tahu history of Ka Tiritiri-o-te-moana, the Southern Alps. He lives in Otautahi Christchurch.