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The week in textile news
Breaking: huge congratulations to Claire Regnault for winning the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction with Dressed (Te Papa Press). Claire’s award was announced on 11 May at the Ockham Book Awards. Very well-deserved. For a delicious review, … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Awards, Books, Christchurch, Classes, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Fashion, History, knitting, Lectures & Talks, Local events, Textiles, Weaving, Whanganui
Tagged Bronwyn Lloyd, Claire Regnault, Dressed, McCahon House, Michele Beevors, Otago Museum, Rekindle, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Te Papa Press
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Style from the south
Textile tourism has suffered during the first bit of this year, and many of us are back to the armchair for viewing and reading. So CTANZ is pleased to announce a new initiative bringing textiles to you, with an upcoming … 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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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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It’s in the making – Otago Museum
2021 was a great year for fabric culture at Otago Museum, what with the very successful Fashion FWD >> Disruption through Design exhibition on show over winter; for summer, the scale is both smaller and wider. Smaller in that the … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, International, Textiles, Weaving
Tagged Indonesia, Margery Blackman, Otago Museum, West Asia
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The annual Aotearoa summer dress and textile crawl, 2021-2022
It’s just about time for the annual post on what’s on around Aotearoa New Zealand in the CTANZ sphere of interest but it’s quite the season. This is just a starter: look forward to more detailed posts over the next … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Books, Christchurch, Collections, CTANZ people, Dowse Art Museum, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Fashion, Maori, Museums, Nelson, Textiles, Weaving, Wellington, Whanganui
Tagged Auckland Art Gallery, Broadgreen Historic House, Christchurch Art Gallery, Eden Hore, Feathermania, Margery Blackman, Mary Quant, Otago Museum, Otago Polytechnic, Rita Angus, Scope, Whanganui Regional Museum
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Envisaging a symposium
Auckland’s back in business and looking forward to welcoming visitors from Hawkes Bay, Dunedin, Wellington, wherever, at the end of April for the 20-21 CTANZ symposium, Vision: Hindsight, Foresight, Insight, to run at AUT from 30 April to 2 May, … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Conference, CTANZ people, Museums, Symposium, Television
Tagged Giles Peterson, Maureen Lander, National Treasures, Te Papa
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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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Fashion forward
The New Zealand Fashion Museum turned 10 this year, a milestone that was submerged with all the others as we’ve grappled with the disruptions caused by the pandemic. With NZFM being an online exhibition space, it’s been able to continue … Continue reading
Posted in CTANZ people, Fashion, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Doris de Pont, New Zealand Fashion Museum
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Queen’s Birthday honours: congratulations to Maureen Lander
Wonderful to see leading fibre artist and longtime CTANZ member Dr Maureen Lander awarded MNZM in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. LANDER, Dr Maureen Robin For services to Māori art Dr Maureen Lander is a leading exponent of raranga … Continue reading