BIO: Andrew Killick was released the same year as Star Wars, 1977, and has lived his entire life in New Zealand - first of all in the nation's largest city, Auckland, but for the last five years, since marrying Anna Sjardin Killick, in Tauranga.

 

Andrew began writing poetry in 1995, when he was studying English Literature at Auckland University, and completed an MA degree in 1999 .

 

Apart from writing, he has also actively developed an involvement in art, music, typography, design and photography, and seeks to find ways to combine art forms and instigate collaborations. In particular he has developed a style of art he calls "photo/graphic" - combining graphic art with photography.

 

Andrew’s creative output engages society and embraces many influences. His subject matter is almost unlimited and he is interested in breaking into and out of Christian culture. Much of Andrew’s work deals with, and grows out of, the tension between physical and spiritual experiences, with a tendency towards bringing the unexpected into the everyday, and the everyday into the unexpected.

 

Andrew is also a freelance writer, freelance typesetting specialist and Publishing Manager at Castle Publishing. He is in the early stages of developing his own publishing imprint, Shadow Press.

 

His first book, 'Epilogue', was published in November 2005.

EQUIPMENT: Computer - AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1gig RAM, Radeon X600 XT video card, 200gig HD, dual layer DVD writer, ViewSonic 17" LCD screen. Wacom Graphire tablet, Konica Minolta Scan Dual IV film scanner, HP scanjet 2200c flatbed scanner, Brother HL-1430 laser printer, Canon Pixma IP4000 inkjet printer.

 

Software - Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Elements 2, InDesign CS2, PageMaker 7, Illustrator CS2, MS Word, OpenOffice 2, GIMP, Deep Paint, Noiseware, High-Logic MainType, Audacity, Total Recorder, Antenna Web Design.

 

Cameras -  Pentax P30 SLR film camera with 35-70mm zoom lens, Lomo LC-A, Smena 8M, no-brand waterproof point-and-shoot, Premier 4mp digital point-and-shoot, Sony DSC-R1 digital fixed lens SLR. Films include Fuji Provia 200 and Konica Centuria 100 (always slide film). 

 

Other - pen and notebook.

Andrew on the Whanganui River Road, just north of Jerusalem, NZ. Photo by Rob Killick.