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135 resultsArtists in Antarctica reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame reviews Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd for Polar Record: ‘Patrick Shepherd has edited a sumptuous collection of creativity by...
James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica for takahē
James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd: 'I couldn’t help but gather adjectives from the first few pages of this h...
Ki Mua, Ki Muri & Artists in Antarctica reviewed for Landfall
David Eggleton reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and Artists in Antarctica e...
Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
Kete reivews The Architect and the Artists
‘Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and The Artists is both a personal tribute to her father and a valuable record of an important moment in our cult...
The Architect and the Artists wins Best First Book of Illustrated Non-Fiction
The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble by Bridget Hackshaw won the Judith Binney Prize for Illustrated Non-Fiction this month in...
The Architect and the Artists appears in UoA’s Special Collections Twenty at 20
Author Bridget Hackshaw discovered two stained-glass window designs by artist Colin McCahon during her research for her prize-winning book, The Arc...
Jenny Nicholls reviews The Architect and the Artists
‘For mid-century modern buffs, and lovers of New Zealand art and architecture.A superbly designed and illustrated volume showcasing, among other th...
Maggie Hubert reviews The Architect and the Artists
Read the review at HOME magazine here.
Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
The Architect and the Artists and Conversātiō named among Art Beat’s Best Art Books of 2021
The Architect and the Artists and Conversātiō appear on Art Beat’s list of Best Art Books of 2021. Of The Architect and the Artists, judge Andrew...
The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
John Daly-Peoples reviews The Architect and the Artist
‘One of the highlights of the 2020 exhibition “A Place to Paint” at the Auckland Art Gallery was Colin McCahon’s restored windows which had origina...
Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
10 Questions with Bridget Hackshaw
Q1: When did the idea that you should write this book first seed in your mind? I began reading, photographing and researching this subject at the...
The Architect and the Artist Shortlisted in the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble has been announced as a finalist in the Bookseller...
The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021
Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021, and four Massey Press titles make the list: ‘The Architect and the Artists by Bridget...
Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
Jennifer Gillam
Jennifer Gillam is a photographer, writer and exhibiting multimedia artist.
John Daly-Peoples reviews Erebus The Ice Dragon for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviewed Colin Monteath’s latest book Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘The...
Erebus: The Ice Dragon reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
The name Erebus for most New Zealanders is associated with tragedy after the fatal crash of flight TE901 in 1979. In many ways that is appropriate...
Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
Anna Brown
Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works with visual artists, curators, art historians and musicians.
Sophie Jerram
Sophie Jerram works with artists in community, government and academic roles.
Trudie Cain
Trudie Cain is a senior lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University.
Victoria Wynne-Jones
Victoria Wynne-Jones is an art historian and curator, and an honorary research fellow in art history at the University of Auckland.
Damian Skinner
Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and former museum curator.
Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best known and most versatile painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury.
Helen Schamroth
Helen Schamroth ONZM has been writing about craft, design and art for more than four decades
Ioana Gordon-Smith
Ioana Gordon-Smith (New Zealand/Sāmoa) is an arts writer and curator.
Experience of a Lifetime
A fresh look at the World War I experience
Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
Shining Land
A unique story book for grown-ups
Tree Sense
A tree miscellany with a focus on our planet's future
The Near West
A comprehensive history of three fascinating Auckland neighbourhoods
Greg Donson
Greg Donson has been Curator and Programmes Manager at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui since 2007, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the exhibition programme, including publications.
Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond was born in Ohakune and grew up in small North Island towns. He has an MA in English language and literature from Victoria University of Wellington (1977) and a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2013).
Theo Schoon
The important biography of a significant figure in New Zealand art and culture
Edith Collier
Rediscovering a remarkable woman painter
Zara Stanhope
Zara Stanhope is a curator and writer connecting publics with artists across the global south.
Ten questions with Colin Monteath
Q1: You’ve visited Antarctica many times as a mountaineer and a photographer, as well as working at Scott Base. What was your role there? As the Fi...
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Kauwhata) studied fine art at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and has taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wānanga.
Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
High Wire virtual launch
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made...
Urgent Moments' Mark Avery interviewed on Te Pae
Andrew Armitage talks to Mark Amery and fellow Paekakarki artists Vanessa Crowe and Tim Barlow on community radio show Te Pae, about Urgent Moments...
EyeContact reviews Theo Schoon
Andrew Paul Wood at EyeContact reviews Theo Schoon: A Biography. ‘So many people, including myself, have wandered down the rabbit hole of trying to...
Tree Sense reviewed on RNZ
Tree Sense is a collection of essays, art and poetry by artists, activists, ecologists and advocates — including Philip Simpson, Anne Noble, Elizab...
Michael Steven reviews The Lobster’s Tale for PhotoForum
Michael Steven reviews The Lobster's Tale for PhotoForum: ‘Massey University Press’s kōrero series of ‘picture books’ for adult readers have a diff...
The Mixtape with Dick Frizzell
Picking the music is one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated and recognisable artists. From reimagining the Four Square man to exploring Māori iconograp...
The power of art to make a difference: Urgent Moments reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples of the New Zealand Arts Review has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by...
Urgent Moments reviewed on Kete
Graham Reid has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber...
10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
Martin Edmond reviews the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht on Newsroom
Martin Edmond has reviewed the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe on ReadingRoom: ‘In the European t...
Huhana Smith talks to Mark Amery on RNZ
Huhana Smith, one of the key profiles in new book Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri,...
North & South reviews Bordering on Miraculous
A review of poet Lynley Edmeades and artist Saskia Leek’s collaboration Bordering on Miraculous has appeared in North & South’s May issue: ‘The...
Proof reviewed on The Maker’s Story
The Maker’s Story has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking: ‘The days of being able to give a definitive explanation of what printmaking is h...
Little Doomsdays is Volume’s book of the week
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived by Lloyd Jones is Volume’s book of the week: ‘Little Doomsdays, a collaboration between writer Nic Low and...
Gretchen Albrecht reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe for Waiheke Weekender: ‘An absolutely sumptuo...
Proof: Two decades of printmaking reviewed on Kete
Proof: Two decades of printmaking by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand has been reviewed on Kete. Peter Simpson says: ‘These are times when, on th...
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Landfall
Skip back three years or so to when the world was beginning to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic would be. It’s here that writers and editors W...
Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
The ‘Almost Legendary Wanganui Artist’. That description, by the then-director of the National Art Gallery Stewart MacLennan, was made in a 1956 re...
Dick Frizzell: 'I had my own private world all to myself that no one could enter'
Iconic New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell grew up as one of six kids, in a small town, where there was only room for one arty one, as he puts it. His...
Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
10 Questions with Lloyd Jones
Q1: This is the first title in a planned ‘kōrero series’ of books. What’s the idea here? A conversation across craft and discipline between artist...
Urgent Moments reviewed in EyeContact
John Hurrell reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Je...
City Art Depot lists Theo Schoon biography as top art book of 2018
The City Art Depot has included Damian Skinner’s Theo Schoon: A Biography as one of its top 5 art books of 2018: ‘Probably the most important art b...
Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star
Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star for Kete: ‘Dick Frizzell is a popular and accomplished painter, print-maker and something of an art histor...
John Daly-Peoples reviews A Kind of Shelter
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, has been reviewed for...
An interview with Shadow Worlds’ Fiona Pardington, Andrew Paul Wood and Megan van Staden
‘When one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading photographic artists provides an image for the cover of a book, it’s bound to be striking; when that bo...
Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Mark Southcombe reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for Architecture New Zealand: ‘Whanganui is close...
Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Arts Review: ‘The current exhibition “Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohing...
10 Questions with Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Q1: What prompted Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) to do this book now?The idea of a publication about PCANZ had been discussed for a num...
Extract from Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand
PART ONE: 1970–91 SETTING THE SCENE IN THE 1970S If, on 2 April 1971, you had journeyed out across the unsealed metal roads to the west coast of th...
10 Questions with Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson
Q1: When the Sarjeant Gallery reopens later this year — the 1919 heritage building will be fully restored, earthquake strengthened and expanded wi...
10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
Ten questions with Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Q1: The subtitle declares ‘new writing for a changed world’. Changed, how so? WI: Nature keeps sending out these SOS messages, and Cyclone Gabriell...
Edith Collier reviewed in takahē
Jenny Partington reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for takahē: ‘Edith Collier:...
10 Questions with Mary Kisler
Q1: You’ve spent the last four years in the footsteps of Frances Hodgkins. In Europe you’ve eaten at some of the restaurants and cafes she ate at,...
Anthony Byrt reviews Theo Schoon: A biography for The Spinoff
Read Anthony Byrt’s brilliant and in-depth review of Theo Schoon: A biography by Damian Skinner: ‘Art history is a brutal discipline, which feeds o...
Otago Daily Times talks to the authors of Bordering on Miraculous
Rebecca Fox at the Otago Daily Times recently talked with Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the artist–writer duo behind Bordering on Miraculous: ‘H...
NZ Booklovers reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Chris Reed has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous, the fourth and latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, for NZ Booklovers. She says of t...
Encountering China reviewed on NBR
Nevil Gibson has reviewed Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney. ‘Many reade...
Jenny Nicholls reviews Shadow Worlds in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘A wond...
Dick Frizzell interviewed in Hawkes Bay Today
Jack Riddell interviews Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings: A boy’s own adventure for Hawkes Bay Today: ‘One of Hastings' favourite sons has created...
Ziggle! reviewed in Magpies Magazine
Hannah Taylor-Rose reviews Ziggle! The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner for Magpies Magazine: ‘Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Activity Book ha...
10 Questions with Lynley Edmeades & Saskia Leek
Q1: These 'kōrero series' projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Matt McEvoy’s book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘I loved this...
Lloyd Jones on the kōrero series of ‘picture books for grownups’
Following the release of Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, Lloyd Jones spoke with Stuff about his process as editor of th...
Ziggle! reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘“Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Acti...
Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on Kete Books
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for 20 years. She has just compiled one of the most...
Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
Andrew Paul Wood reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophi...
NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West by Tania Mace
Lyn Potter from NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace: 'The Near West is a fascinatin...
New book covers artist's rich modernist history
'Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery during the 1990s. Alon...
The Dark Dad reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale for Waiheke Weekender: What happens to a child who is rejected by the onl...
Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
Aaron Lister’s speech at the launch of Theo Schoon: A Biography, by Damian Skinner Theo Schoon sets a tough precedent when it comes to giving ope...
10 Questions with Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle
Q1: Your beautiful book is at the printer. How does that feel? CB: Absolutely thrilling — making a book when you love books is a thrill and worki...
Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Bronwyn Labrum reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A biography by Martin Edmond for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘AS THE DIRECTOR of the...
10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
Read an excerpt from High Wire
HIGH WIRE LLOYD JONES EUAN MACLEOD I’d written to Euan Macleod proposing a project about bridges. He replied enthusiastically — and, over t...
10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: After working your way through the history of Western art for your last book, was it a relief to look up at the sun and the stars? Not so much...
Don Abbott reviews The Lobster’s Tale in Art New Zealand
Don Abbott, deputy editor of Art New Zealand, has reviewed The Lobster's Tale in the Summer ‘22 issue. ‘The cover of The Lobster’s Tale provides a...
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Pamela Morrow has reviewed A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle...
Steve Braunias names two Massey University Press books best illustrated of 2023
Steve Braunias writes for Newsroom: 'The golden age of illustrated New Zealand books is right now. In a land as beautiful and good to look at as A...
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud on Newsroom
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Newsroom: ‘Many of N...
10 Questions with Damian Skinner
1. You wrote your MA thesis on Theo Schoon in the 1990s but clearly you weren’t quite done with him. What drew you back? It was actually meeting a...
10 Questions with Luke Smythe
Q1: This wonderful book has the most lovely subtitle: Between Gesture and Geometry. Could you explain why it’s so fitting? Most abstract painters f...
10 Questions with Louise Callan and Jake Morrison
Q1: So many people have Robin Morrison stories to tell. What’s your connection to Robin? LC: Robin was a colleague I worked with for a wide range o...
Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Will Hansen has reviewed Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond: 'THE ‘WANGANUI SENSATION’ is a major event in New Zealand’s q...
Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in North & South
Theo Macdonald reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for North & South: ‘Unpacking required. A photograph can tenderly trace a...
10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
10 Questions with Deborah Shepard
1. It must be good to see The Writing Life sent off to print. It’s a strange feeling letting go of a manuscript that has occupied your every waking...
10 Questions with Anne Noble
Q1: What prompted you to begin the Conversātiō book project? Following the inclusion of Conversātiō and a suite of my other works about bees in t...
10 Questions with Lisa Cherrington and Sarika Rona
Q1: What prompted you to write this story? LC: Well, it was two things for me. One, a friend had just returned from overseas and she posted a pho...
10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
Ten Question Q&A with Martin Edmond
Q1: You grew up in Ohakune and at the start of this book you write about coming to Whanganui when you were a child, in the early 1960s. Clearly the...
10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
10 Questions with Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
Q1: Where did the notion of this book come from? JE: The idea for a book about Sylvia came to me in a flash. In 2018, at the age of 85, Sylvia deci...
Ten Question Q&A with Felicity Jones and Mark Smith
Q1: When did you first learn about the Wardian Case and its enabling of the transportation of live plants across continents and indeed hemispheres?...
10 Questions with Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
Q1: The kaupapa behind the kōrero series is a writer and an artist in collaboration, creating a ‘picture book for grownups’. When series editor Llo...
Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
Launch speech, Bill & Shirley by Keith Ovenden We meet in the shadow not just of the pandemic but of the election. So, I want to put it on reco...
Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...