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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.
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Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Notes
When more really is more
Some artists pick up a pencil when beginning a work. Lionel Bawden picks up a bunch, then transforms them into gorgeously morphing honeycomb sculptures.
Collection
Doris Lusk Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula
“When the Pākehā arrived, much of the peninsula was heavily forested with Podocarp. You can still see old fossilised tōtara stumps lying all around the tops of the hills. As I understand it, Christchurch was built off those forests.” —Tā Tipene O’Regan
In this work, Doris Lusk draws attention to the dead trees commonly seen around Horomaka Banks Peninsula, painting several above the settlement of Kawatea Okains Bay. The surrounding area is shown as ordered and controlled, divided into the individually owned parcels of land that are common for European-style sedentary farming. Both Māori and Pākehā burned forests for settlement – Aotearoa New Zealand’s forest cover had dropped from more than eighty percent to roughly fifty-three percent by 1840, and stands at just thirty-three percent today.
Pākehā ~ New Zealander of European descent
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
Notes
Family Fun Day 15 February
I'm getting very excited as the day of the Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker exhibition opening draws near.
We've got some great things planned and here's a sneak preview of one of the activities. Spin Art involves highly sophisticated equipment and know how...
Notes
old meets new
A self confessed letterpress enthusiast I really enjoy the qualities offered with handprinted books - the tactile quality of the printed metal type faces slightly embossed into the surface of the paper, it's something that digital technology would never have a part to play in or so I thought.
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Bettina
The lady on the left is Lady Bettina Drummond-Hay. She enjoys the style 'Lady' because her father is Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford and 12th Earl of Balcarres.
