An indepth interview with Mike White as featured in North and South Magazine, 2014.

“They call Central ‘Big Sky Country’…The other name they give it is “Sydney Country”. So entwined in the public imagination are the landscapes of Central Otago and Sydney’s portrayal of them that his name has been appropriated for the harsh heartland between Alexandra and Ranfurly. They’ve made him almost a patron, his work a totem of Central.

It’s calm up here. Just skylarks trill- ing somewhere over the fenceline and an echoey bark of a dog shifting sheep down in the valley. It’s somewhere Sydney has come time and again, to mountainbike, to smooth his emotions, sometimes to paint….” Download the full article below.