The Living Room - Series Two, Episode One

Roots reggae act Kora present this Living Room episode from the beach at Whakatāne — hometown for the four Queenstown-based brothers. Then ex-Mental As Anything guitarist Reg Mombassa (born in Auckland as Chris O'Doherty) talks from Sydney about his iconic artworks for Mambo — including the notorious Australian Jesus series — and wonders if he's turning into a blowfly. Finally there’s a profile of outsider artist Martin Thompson, whose painstaking mathematically-based work has travelled from Wellington community workshops to Wallpaper* magazine.

Sometimes when I see someone wearing one of the more kind of offensive ones, I almost feel like going and saying congratulations for wearing it because I’d be too scared to wear it myself.

– Artist Reg Mombassa on his t-shirt designs

Key Cast & Crew

Mark Albiston

Director, Producer, Camera

Francis Kora

Presenter

Louis Sutherland

Director

Laughton Kora

Presenter

John Cairns

Editor

Matt Stutter

Sound