Exhibitions
Events
On display
Alan Loney: A Hawk in Magpie Country - CANCELLED
Alan Loney working in Taylor's Mistake in 1976. Photo: Robin Neate
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
This event was scheduled for 7 May 2025, but has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances
Join one of the foremost printers of hand-crafted books in Australasia, Alan Loney, for a talk about his Hawk Press and the idea of the Book in the modern age.
This event acknowledges the display in the Archive Lounge and the fiftieth anniversary of the Hawk Press.
Related reading: Talk, Prints, Free event, Archives
Exhibition
Hawk Press 1975-1983
3 May – 17 August 2025
A selection of beautifully designed and printed Hawk Press books presented to the Gallery by Alan Loney.
Commentary
Opening the Archives
Amongst the regular books, artist books and rare books, the Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives also contains a treasure-trove of letters, diaries, photographs, newspaper cuttings, videos and more. These fascinating objects shine a light on the lives and careers of many of the artists in our collection, telling us how they developed their works, how they related to their contemporaries, even where they went on their holidays. They are used a good deal by curators and researchers – and you can see some of them in our current exhibitions He Kapuka Oneone and One O’Clock Jump – but they usually live well out of sight.
Commentary
Finding Barry Cleavin
Exploring and documenting the contents of Barry Cleavin’s archive in the Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives was both a novel and an invaluable experience for me.
Article
Reflections on riches
While the Gallery may be closed, our archive collections continue to develop. As I write, three aspects of managing an archive are happening simultaneously. We are adding new material, cataloguing it, and assisting a researcher to use the archive. All the challenges and pleasures of archive management are on the table.
