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..
THIS BOOK IS FOR HUMANS - BOTH YOUNG AND OLD.
DON’T WORRY! IT’S NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM! THERE ARE ALSO LOTS OF GOOD NEWS STORIES ABOUT CONSERVATION SUCCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES.
IT’S PACK..
A stunning photographic book recording the extraordinary beauty of farm animals - cattle to be precise!
Amanda King grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and like so many young Australasians before her..
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..
From the Australian Book Industry-Award winning author of Australian Abstract.
'Containing a sublime collection of works, Amber Creswell Bell's book is a deeply fascinating insight into Antipodea..
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..
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..
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..
A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pakeha (European New Zealanders), Maori, and i..
Dark Harvest discusses the work of the Otago Sculpture Trust over the commemorative period between 2014 2018, and in particular the work of sculptor Stephen Mulqueen.
Stephen in his own practice..
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...
On the periphery of Aotearoa New Zealand's publishing scene, there is a rich and varied cottage industry of small press publishers. They work in collaboration, in gaps between paid gigs and with the s..
Luxurious and inviting, luscious and opulent, the search for paradise is a search for what brings a person happiness and peace. To bring tranquillity and beauty into your own home requires finding wha..
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..
Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Maori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae a..
Lance and Nicola Herbst established Herbst Architects in 2000 and since then their office has become one of New Zealand's leading architecture practices. Eight New Zealand Architecture Awards and 20 B..
'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..
'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..
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..
Ray Ching is internationally recognised as one of the world's greatest living wildlife artists. Born in New Zealand, he established himself as an artist in the 1960s, before moving to England where he..
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 scen..
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..
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.
Gathe..
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a 'fine art gallery' for the burgeoning small town of Whanganui.
It re..