Enter the fascinating world of forensic facial approximation and journey with me through this how-to guide for the artist.
Forensic facial approximation is the marriage of scientific observation and..
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 altoget..
The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of
images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a
photo album of Aotearoa.
Her dedica..
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the
modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group
Architects), the painter Colin McCahon..
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New..
What makes Aotearoa New Zealand one of the most picturesque countries in the world? Its striking landscape can range from the snow-capped alps to the breezy ocean in a few hundred kilometres, requirin..
Colin McCahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Maori motifs, McCahon's work came t..
Through Noble's art and newly commissioned essays, the book traverses
Noble's deep interest in how humans relate to bees. From images of
communities of bees to tintype photographs showing the beau..
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..
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist, Don Binney (1940-2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s...
When Frances Hodgkins, our most celebrated artist, first left New Zealand in 1901, location became a key factor in her determination to succeed as an artist. In this engaging book, curator Mary Kisler..
New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson,..
In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walters (19..
* Fully redesigned edition of sought-after guide to greenstone carving * Includes background to stone, Maori design, techniques and tools * Contains easy-to-follow instructions, colour photos of works..
Gretchen Albrecht CNZM is one of New Zealand's most influential painters. Over the course of her long career, her work has continued to surprise and delight, and her paintings feature in many importan..
Landscape architect, teacher and environmentalist Harry Turbott (1930-2016) was at the forefront of the first wave of environmental design. From the early 1960s, after returning from completing an MLA..
'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 tra..
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 na..
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights.
The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian T..
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.
Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynle..
“...It’s nothing to do with drawing landscape, it’s to do with connection” Marilynn Webb, 2000
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills is a major forthcoming bilingual publication to mark the monumental ..
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.'
Colin McCahon
McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in t..
MOTUTAPU is the conclusion of a four-year journey by artist Benjamin Work and photographer Brendan Kitto. This book looks at the shared history of Motutapu (sacred island) throughout Moana Oceania-inc..
Adam Rolland was born in Edinburgh in 1841 but emigrated to Otago with his parents and siblings on the Alpine in 1859. He documented the journey and this interest and skill with drawing and watercolou..
A gull chick running across Muriwai Beach. Cabbage trees at Lake Wainamu. Tyre tracks, tugs of war and tramping trips. Olaf Petersen produced an unrivalled photographic account of the people and natur..
The rise of an impressive ceramics movement is one of the more striking developments in contemporary Maori art. Clayworking and pottery firing was an ancient Pacific practice, but the knowledge had la..
Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first Pasifika and first Fa'afafine artis..
A major tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngati Porou, Ngati Raukawa) whose early death robbed Aotearoa New Zealand of one of its greatest thinkers about how our built landscape could best ..
Robin White: Something is happening Here is the first book to be devoted to Robin Whites art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 write..
From its inception, the directors of Sheppard & Rout Architects have been concerned that its architectural and planning projects all reflect their cultural and historical contexts.
The events of the..
New Zealand-born painter Simon Ingram's (born 1971) first monograph surveys work from 2007-2013. With three essays and abundant illustrations, this publication explores Ingram's robotic kits and self-..
Travel back through history and across place - one artwork at a time
Since opening in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki has become home to
one of the largest public art collections in Aotear..
In 1979 the photographer Robin Morrison and his family spent seven months on
the road in the South Island, where Morrison photographed people and places. The
resulting book was published in 1981 b..
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the ma..
The story of contemporary Maori art from the 1950s to the present day, with more than 200 artworks by 110 Maori artists, this is a powerful, dynamic new book.
Maori art is unique among all art mo..
Arguably one of the finest jewellers and goldsmiths working in New Zealand, Tony Williams has both expanded and enhanced New Zealand jewellery-making over the past 40 years. From exquisite dragonfly b..
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 b..
The Makers takes a deep dive into the realities of what it takes to be a creative today and why creativity is essential to our wellbeing. It is a book about freedom and fulfilment, mindfulness and con..