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Category Archives: Craft
Online again: 1 June, A Lightbulb Moment
We’re getting in the groove with CTANZ online and suddenly it’s June and our next installment is coming up on Wednesday 1 June, 7pm. This time, we’re headed to Hawke’s Bay for some history, presented by Emerita Professor Kay Morris … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, Exhibitions, Hawkes Bay, History, Talks
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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
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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Celebrating Māori weaving
Throughout 2021, across the country,we’ve had opportunities to see plenty of contemporary Māori art. Among this work, there’s been some fibre art, a couple of highlights being the work by Maureen Lander and Mata Aho in the epic Toi Tū … Continue reading
Armchair access
It’s a bit difficult to engage with the material world at the moment, but don’t despair, there are a few things you can check out online. Beginning with buttons: the treat that is the biennial button exhibition at Auckland’s Masterworks … Continue reading
Symposium 2021 – textiles and Tāmaki
Not long now until the 2021 CTANZ symposium: Vision: Hindsight, Foresight, Insight, at AUT in central Auckland, 30 April – 2 May. Three days of presentations including keynotes by Dr Maureen Lander and Giles Peterson – you can check out … Continue reading
More than exhibitions
While the coverage of exhibitions around the country at the moment, there’s almost something for everyone, but if you’re not around Auckland, Opunake, Wairarapa, Wellington or Invercargill, there are still opportunities for textile-y activities both further afield and accessible to … Continue reading
More exhibitions
A postscript to last week’s exhibition posting: there’s more to visit in the lower North Island. At Masterton’s Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Whakatau Miromiro showcases Terri Te Tau’s embroidery on linen. The work “was created in conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Craft, CTANZ people, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Taranaki, Textiles
Tagged From Out of the Blue, Masterton, Opunake, Stella Lange, Terri Te Tau
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Summer viewing
The holiday preview is late this year, but there are textile and dress exhibitions to be found from one end of the country to the other this summer. Starting with Michele Beevors in Invercargill. Yes, those giant skeletal animals on … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Christchurch, Craft, Dowse Art Museum, Emma Fitts, Exhibitions, knitting, Local events, Maori, Museums, New Zealand Fashion Museum, Pacific Islands, Textiles, Weaving, Wellington
Tagged Auckland Art Gallery, He Waka Tuia, Mata Aho, Maureen Lander, Michele Beevers, Moana Currents, Pataka, Veranoa Hetet, Yuki Kihara
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