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Category Archives: Embroidery
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
More vintage textiles – the Valerie Carson Estate Textile Collection
Valerie Carson (1936-2020) is acknowledged as “New Zealand’s first textile conservator” and a pioneer of the field’s recognition as a discipline within the museum community, as related in her obituary on Te Papa’s blog. Some of you will be aware … Continue reading
New art and vintage textiles in Auckland in August
August activities begin and end with Auckland this time round. On Thursday 11 August, Objectspace’s Ockham lecture will feature Steven Junil Park on language through making. The Ōtautahi-based multi-disciplinary artist works under the name 6×4. Fresh from designing the costumes … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Craft, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Talks, Theatre, vintage
Tagged Auckland Vintage Textile Fair, Objectspace, Steven Junil Park
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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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Caroline McQuarrie, The New Sun – Wellington
Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington – 11 February – 13 March 2021 – Opening 5.30pm, Thursday 11 February – Artist talk with Heather Galbraith, Saturday 6 March, 2pm Caroline McQuarrie’s primary artistic interest is the concept of home, wherever it’s located. … 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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Happy 2020
Welcome to another year. We hope you’ve all been able to enjoy relaxing time with family and friends, and members should have received their copies of the glorious summer issue of Context just before Christmas for their holiday reading. This … Continue reading
Crafting Aotearoa
Every couple of decades, someone takes stock of craft/object art in Aotearoa New Zealand. There was Doreen Blumhardt and Brian Brake’s Craft New Zealand in 1982 and Helen Schamroth’s 100 New Zealand Craft Artists in 1998, both of which won … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Books, Craft, CTANZ people, Embroidery, Jewellery, Maori, Pacific Islands, Textiles
Tagged Auckland Museum, Crafting Aotearoa, Damian Skinner, Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai
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