Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
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 Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more
Light and Reflections - The House and the Art in our Lives by Helen Beaglehole
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
Light and Reflections is a story of a home filled with contemporary New Zealand art and the family who collected it over two generations and nearly 90 years. Author Helen Beaglehole and photographer Matthew O'Reilly open the red front door of the Beaglehole home in Messines Road, Karori, and invite read ...Show more
Te Rā: The Maori Sail by Ariana Tikao; Mat Tait
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Te Rā, which means the sail in te reo Māori, is the last remaining customary Māori sail in the world. Woven from harakeke more than 200 years ago, Te Rā has for many years been held in storage at the British Museum in London. In July 2023, our oldest taonga will once again be brought into the light as i ...Show more
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists by Baye Riddell
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
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.
Salt: Coastal Connections by Terry Fitzgibbon
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Ready for summer, Salt: Coastal Connections celebrates New Zealand’s coastline with 160 pages of breath-taking and evocative B & W photography. Accompanied by lucid and lively poems by Terry Fitzgibbon, Salt revels in the wonder of our coastline. As an island nation, the coastline is our moat, ou ...Show more
Gordon Walters by Francis Pound; Leonard Bell (Foreword by)
$89.99 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
The first substantial monograph on the art of one of this country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters. 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 Walte ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
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. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Our Land in Colour by Jock Phillips, Brendan Graham
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in co ...Show more
A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | 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
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Through Shaded Glass - Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 -1960 by Lissa Mitchell
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
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 male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women ...Show more
House of Treasures - 150 Objects from Canterbury Museum Nga Taonga Tuku Iho by James Herries Beattie, Et Al
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Since first opening its doors to the public on Rolleston Avenue on 1 October 1870, Canterbury Museum has come to house an estimated 2.3 million taonga (treasures). To celebrate the Museum’s 150th anniversary, 150 taonga (treasures) from this vast collection are showcased in a superbly designed and photo ...Show more