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Category Archives: Artists
Tamaki Makarau exhibition crawl
After a good start to the year, Auckland is continuing to provide the costume and textile community with reasons to hit the galleries. This weekend – 18 March – is a good one for a gallery crawl if you’re looking … Continue reading
Some things to see and do, January 2023
January has whizzed past and many of us are back at the day job, but it’s still summer and there’s still time to catch a few of the summer seasonal shows. Starting overhead, in Auckland, it’s the last week of … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Awards, Christchurch, CTANZ people, Exhibitions, History, Maori, sculpture, Weaving, Wellington, wool
Tagged Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Brett Graham, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū., Leah Craven, Masterworks Gallery, Mataaho Collective, Te Papa Tongarewa, WoolOn Creative Fashion Awards
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Maureen Lander, Arts Foundation Laureate
Warmest congratulations once again to longstanding CTANZ member Dr Maureen Lander MNZM, who has joined the ranks of Arts Foundation laureates, receiving 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Theresa Gattung Female Arts Practitioners Award for her achievements as a … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Awards, CTANZ people, Textiles
Tagged Maureen Lander, The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi
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Igniting joy at Objectspace, one weekend only
If you’re in Auckland this weekend you could brighten up your life with a visit to Objectspace to check out Wharenui Harikoa, an installation of Lissy Robinson-Cole and Rudi Robinson’s crocheted sculptural forms. For the past eight years, the husband … Continue reading
Online and onscreen
The planned CTANZ online series is rolling along, with the next installment this week already: Tuesday 10 May 7-8pm, Imogen Stockwell, curator of Maritza Boutique: Ōamaru – London, will talk about the exhibition at the Forrester Gallery until 3 July. … Continue reading
CTANZ goes online
So we’re not, this year, descending on Waitaki for the CTANZ symposium., which is doubly disappointing because whether you came down from Christchurch or up from Dunedin to converge on Ōamaru, you’d have found exhibitions to check out on the … Continue reading
A miscellany of embroidery, competitions, dresses and more
The textile and dress exhibitions keep on coming with several around the country in the next couple of months and more to come. (Pardon the cliche, but watch this space.) Thanks to those of you who have sent in details … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Awards, Competitions, Dunedin, Embroidery, Emma Fitts, Exhibitions, Nelson, Textiles
Tagged Anna Crichton, Areez Katki, Arts Council Nelson, Blue Oyster, Broadgreen Historic House, Changing Threads, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Khadim Ali, Objectspace, Railway Stret Studios, Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Wedding dress
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Wellington goes big on textiles to counter:
Once more, Covid has arrived right at arts festival season, but one part of the 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts that is largely proceeding is its visual arts component. A few years ago, this side of the … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Craft, CTANZ people, Dowse Art Museum, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Festivals, Textiles, Wellington, wool
Tagged Aotearoa New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Areez Katki, Arielle Walker, Bronwyn Lloyd, Caroline McQuarrie, Dowse Art Museum, Erica van Zon, Heidi Brickell, Petone Settlers Museum, Terri Te Tau, Threads Festival, Vita Cochran
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Around Aotearoa in March
There seems to be no end to the number of textile and dress exhibitions around at the moment. The biggies – Quant, Eden Hore – are winding down but there’s also a lot that’s in the small /perfectly formed basket … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Christchurch, Craft, Dunedin, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Fashion, Heritage, New Zealand Fashion Museum, Photography, Textiles, Uncategorized, Weaving, Wellington, Whanganui
Tagged Annie Mackenzie, Edith Collier, Jay Hutchinson, Joanna Margaret Paul, Olga Gallery, Physics Room, Serjeant Art Gallery, Tessa Ma'auga, Wai Ching Chan, Whanganui Woollen Mills
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A small textile miscellany, January 2022
The Ockham book awards longlist for 2022 pleasingly includes two textile titles published in 2021, something we don’t often see. Congratulations to Claire Regnault for Dressed: Fashionable dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840-1910 making it onto the list. The other … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Awards, Books, CTANZ people, Exhibitions, Hawkes Bay, History, New Zealand Fashion Museum, Textiles, Weaving
Tagged Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū., Claire Regnault, Dressed, Dressing the Pandemic, Michelle Mayn, Moana Currents, MTG Hawke's Bay, Sculpture in the Gardens, Women's Institutes
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