Diane (Binsley) Percy has worked as a secondary teacher of English and Art at schools in Auckland and South Auckland for many years. She has visited Kiribati where her daughter Anna Percy worked for five years. Visual artist, painter, printmaker, film director Claudia Pond Eyley MFA, was born in Matamata, New Zealand and attended schools in Montreal, Canada and New York. She returned to NZ to attend the School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in the mid-60s. In 1983 with her daughter Brigid, she visited her friend Robin White and her family in Tarawa, Kiribati in the Pacific for a month. The two artists' collaboration resulted in the book Twenty Eight Days in Kiribati published by New Women's Press. Claudia Pond Eyley lives and works from her studio in Mount Eden, Auckland.