Collaborator Story stitcher
Tanya greatly values and enjoys opportunities to create with others. Her mahi has seen her collaborate with musicians, artists, scientists, designers, activists and a host of community groups.
Regular collaborators include musicians Peter Forster & Craig Denham, artists Helen Bacon & Kristy Barlow, designers Phil Cockfield and Vibeke Brethouwer.
She is a trustee and Creative Director of the Once Upon An Island Charitable Trust that uses storytelling and making for community building and environmental education.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
Peter Forster and Tanya Batt perform together and have worked on projects Toby or Not To Be, Dance Upon Our Earth, Mary Bumby’s Hive of Story and The Garden of Story.
Phil Cockfield has worked with Tanya Batt for a decade on a variety of projects, like the weekly Imagined Worlds Page in the local Gulf News, for the Once Upon An Island Trust and Waiheke Story Centre.
Musician Craig Denham and Tanya Batt have collaborated on lots of albums over the years, like Dance Upon A Time, Elemental, The Fairytale Tree and Box of Foxes.
Kristy Barlow is a freelance New Zealand illustrator based in Canada, specializing in children's illustration. She has worked with Tanya Batt on Te Ara Kirihimete - The Path of Christmas, Dance Upon Our Earth and now Batt on the Mat.
Helen Bacon is an illustrator and artist who has worked with Tanya Batt on a range of projects from My Dad’s a Dragon Catcher to Toby or Not To Be.
Vibeke Brethouwer is a web & graphic designer working with Tanya, like this website!
“Nāku te rourou nāu te rourou ka ora ai te iwi -
With your basket and my basket, the people will thrive.”
Māori Whakatauki
