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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Collection
John Gully Lake Wakatipu
Whakatipu-wai-Māori Lake Whakatipu provided both permanent settlement sites and seasonal campsites for Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu iwi across many centuries. From the northern head of the lake, inaka and kōkōtakiwai pounamu was gathered and carried back to coastal settlements to be crafted into tools, adornments and weapons. In 1877, watercolourist John Gully left his role as chief draughtsman at the provincial survey office in Whakatū Nelson to paint full-time, starting with a month-long southern sketching tour that included Piopiotahi Milford Sound and Whakatipu-wai-Māori.
Waitaha ~ tribal group that occupied much of Te Waipounamu South Island before they were displaced by Kāti Māmoe
Kāti Māmoe ~ tribal group that was largely replaced by Kāi Tahu through intermarriage and conquest
Kāi Tahu ~ tribal group of much of Te Waipounamu South Island
iwi ~ tribes
inaka ~ a whitish or creamy-coloured variety of greenstone
kōkōtakiwai ~ a soft and brittle variety of greenstone with streaks of white
pounamu ~ greenstone
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
Notes
Keeping it simple
Visiting Ooo ooo, a collaboration between Keir Leslie and Tjalling de Vries at North Projects on Bealey Avenue the other day, I came across a great installation workaround.
Notes
La promenade publique by Philibert-Louis Debucourt
This article first appeared as 'Aristocrats at play' in The Press on 14 April 2015.
Notes
Maori Carved Figure. Rotorua. N.Z.
This article first appeared as 'Picture perfect postcards of our prominent places' in The Press on 25 March 2015.
Notes
Major Major
The line between the fine and applied arts is, it hardly needs saying, a blurred one
Interview
The significance of everyday things
During the winter of 1984 my mother, father and I packed an overnight bag and climbed into Dad’s Hillman Hunter. I was five years old and, as far as I could remember, it was the first time we’d ever ventured outside of Blenheim.
Article
Going online
I’ve never actually seen the Mona Lisa, and it’s a fair bet that most people reading this article haven’t either. Yet, according to Wikipedia, the painting is ‘the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world’. So how to account for the fame of an artwork we haven’t seen? And what have reproductions of Da Vinci’s sixteenth-century portrait got to teach us about time-based art and the online environment in 2015?