Little Doomsdays (Korero series) by Nic Low; Phil Dadson (Artist)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
A unique collaboration in words and art It’s said — in the quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse — that in the late twentieth century an unstable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngāi Tahu hapū in Murihiku created what has c ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron - The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Te Toi Whakairo: The Art Of Maori Carving by Hirini Moko Mead
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori
Te Toi Whakairo is an essential guide to Maori wood carving by distinguished carver and academic Sir Sidney (Hirini) Moko Mead. The book presents all the elements of carving in different regions of New Zealand, with practical advice on techniques and styles, and is abundantly illustrated with photos, di ...Show more
Dawn Chorus - The Legendary Voyage to New Zealand of Aesop, the Fabled Teller of Fables by Ray Ching; Carolyn Ching
90.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's birds as you have never seen them before. World renowned artist Ray Ching has created a truly unique celebration of New Zealands birds and landscapes. Magical, humorous and beautiful, this is the imagined story of Aesop's visit to Aotearoa New Zealand, described by its creator, Ray Ching, ...Show more
Gretchen Albrecht - Between Gesture and Geometry (rev. ed.) by Luke Smythe
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
Gretchen Albrecht CNZM is one of New Zealand's most influential painters. Overthe course of her long career, her work has continued to surprise and delight,and her paintings feature in many important collections both in New Zealand andoverseas. This comprehensive survey of her much-admired work reveals ...Show more
Drawn to the Wild - Paintings of New Zealand Birds by Nicolas Dillon
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
Nicolas Dillon is one of New Zealand's leading wildlife painters, who has built a reputation over the last 30 years for his masterful portraits of our wildlife, in particular birds. His evocative, moody paintings are deeply considered observations of nature and the environment. At the heart of his pract ...Show more
A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...Show more
Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more
Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti by Cassandra Barnett, Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
This richly illustrated publication examines the last 25 years of the influential Toioho ki Apiti programme at Massey University, its global indigenous pedagogical reach, and its ongoing impacts on national and international contemporary art and cultural sectors. Toioho ki Apiti's transformative and kau ...Show more
New Zealand Art at Te Papa by Mark Stocker
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
Te Papa holds New Zealands national art collection, whose origins date back to 1865 and the establishment of the then Colonial Museum (later the Dominion and then the National Museum). Built up over the years by a succession of directors and curators, the collections 40,000 works track New Zealand histo ...Show more
Aesop's Kiwi Fables by Aesop; Ray Ching
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, newly painted for this book, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills, familiar to New Zealanders through his widely seen paintings of birds, are imaginatively engaged in an altogether new expression of Aesop's Fables. The stories have left their origins in Greece and ancient Europe a ...Show more
250 Years Of New Zealand Painting by Gill Docking; Michael Dunn; Edward Hanfling
100.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first written by Gil Docking, published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn, and again to 2020 by art historian, writer and lecturer Edward Hanfling. New design, with additional text by Edward Hanfling, including an introd ...Show more