Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) was one of New Zealand's most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander's powerful pictures chronicled the country's social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. ...Show more
Resetting The Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand by Chris Braddock, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Layne Waerea, Victoria Wynne-Jones (editors)
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
The first anthology/reader of performance art of Aotearoa New Zealand, Resetting the Coordinates offers a lively, 50-year critical survey of Aotearoa New Zealand's globally unique performance art scene. From the post-object and performance art of the late 1960s to the rich vein of Maori and Pacific perf ...Show more
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor, Greg Donson
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Published to coincide with the reopening of the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, this substantial and handsome book examines the continuing impact of Whanganui-born and British-trained Edith Collier and her artistic legacy. In an era of growing international interest in women artists, Collier’s work is fi ...Show more
Modern Women: Flight of Time by Julia Waite (editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Modern Women: Flight of Time is a stunning new publication that cements a previously understudied history of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand: that of modern women artists. Profiling 44 innovative artists, this book places women in the front and centre of New Zealand modernism and explores their varie ...Show more
Sight Lines - Women and Art in Aotearoa by Kirsty Baker (editor)
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Sight Lines - Women and Art in Aotearoa. Extraordinary women, groundbreaking art. From ancient whatu kakahu to contemporary installation art, Frances Hodgkins to Merata Mita, Fiona Clark to Mataaho Collective, Sight Lines tells the story of art made by women in Aotearoa. Gathered here are painters, pho ...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
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists by Baye Riddell
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
This book is the first comprehensive overview of Māori claywork - its origins, its loss and its revival. Richly illustrated, it introduces readers to the practices of the five founders of Ngā Kaihanga Uku (the national clayworkers' collective) and surveys the work of the next generation.
The After Hours Stylist - Growing, Gathering and Creating Through the Seasons by Kate Williams; Anna McLeod
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
A love of nature and a need to celebrate what each season offers is at the heart of Kate Williams’ talent and passion for creativity and styling, while her popular floral workshops and garden tours at their rural Canterbury property are sell-out events. In The After-hours Stylist, Kate draws on years o ...Show more
250 Years Of New Zealand Painting by Gill Docking; Michael Dunn; Edward Hanfling
$99.99 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
Maori Moving Image by Melanie Oliver and Bridget Reweti (editors)
$34.90 NZD
Category: Maori
A beautifully designed new book that champions recent film, animation and video art made by Maori artists. Whether it be 16mm film, hand-drawn animation, 4K video or footage recorded on a phone, moving image artworks create a unique space for Maori artists to connect the forms, patterns and concepts of ...Show more
Hundertwasser in New Zealand - The Art of Creating Paradise by Andreas J Hirsch
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
'New Zealand is for me a kind of promised land.' Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in New Zealand in 1973, seeking refuge from a world out of kilter with nature. After travelling and exhibiting, he settled at Kaurinui, the land he bought and restored in the Bay of Islands. Wishing ...Show more
Heritage Paintings Tauponui a tia New Zealand by Raymond Val
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Val Raymond was best known during the 1960s, 70s and 80s for her portraiture and Central North Island lanscapes. Inventing new watercolour techniques led to her artistic trsnaformation during the 1990s - painting exquisite "abstract expessions"that combine unusually different aspects of New Zealand heri ...Show more