Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm by Clare Reilly
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm is an exploration of New Zealand painter Clare Reilly's life and work. The mixture of autobiographical writing and gorgeous paintings subtly shows how Reilly's art and experiences are entwined. Her themes cover the issues of habitat destruction and renewal, depicting native ...Show more
Creative Conservation: a Celebration of Artists who are Wild About Nature by Chrissy Wickes; Sonia Frimmel
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand has a distinctive landscape and flora and fauna, and there are many artists that celebrate this through their work, whether it is painting, sculpture, ceramics, carving or weaving. This book showcases a group of 35 established and aspiring artists and their work, looking at what inspires the ...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
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
Tussock by Bruce Hunt
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
"Tussock is the colour of my country. It is, for me, a coming home.” Over the course of nearly 40 years, artist Bruce Hunt has explored the ridgelines, hills and valleys of Otago and Canterbury, photographing the quiet grandeur of undulating foothills, observing braided rivers growing and gathering mom ...Show more
Empty of Shadows and Making a Shadow, Lithographs by Ralph Hotere by Peter Vangioni
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: very good
Sophisticated, inventive and sincere, the lithographs of Ralph Hotere are presented here in their entirety. 143 pages, 135 illustrations. First published 2005.
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
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
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
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