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Activating Archives
Shannon Williamson Continuous Positive i, 2016.
Gouache and pencil on paper. Purchased 2016 with funds generously donated by Sarah Lucas, Sadie Coles HQ, London and Two Rooms, Auckland, in response to the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake
Talk
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Join artist Shannon Williamson and Gallery librarian Tim Jones as they discuss the engagement of artists with library and archive collections.
Shannon and Tim will focus on the unique resources at the Gallery’s Robert and Barbara Stewart library. How might artists activate this material in their practice? What are the limitations of library and archive collections in general? How, and for whose benefit, are they made available?
Related reading: Artist Talk, Archives
Exhibition
Living Archives
25 October 2025 – 8 March 2026
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa.
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.
