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On display
Stitching Stories
Work by Yinghua Jiang.
Workshop
Past event
Education Centre
$15
Make a small book for your drawings, writings, poetry or archival gems in these two individual bookbinding workshops with Yinghua Jiang.
Yinghua Jiang has been working in art and design for many years. She learned bookbinding skills from Don Hampshire and set up her own studio in 2004. Since then, she has focused more on designer binding and book restorations. She also loves drawing plants in watercolour. To learn more about her work visit wyrcanbookbinding.nz
Suitable for beginners. All materials provided and bookings essential.
Workshop 1: Creative stitches to form soft cover booklets.
Workshop 2: Chinese, Japanese soft binding.
Related reading: Workshop, 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.
