Auckland Architecture: A Walking Guide - Revised Edition by John Walsh & Patrick Reynolds
$25.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Reading Level: near fine
In this handy pocket guide, brought up to date in 2021 with the inclusionof twelve new buildings, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teamsup with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guidedwalking tour of 60 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era tothe brand ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: General
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Gavin Hipkins: The Homely II by Gavin Hipkins; Megan Tamati-Quennell; City Gallery Wellington Staff (Contribution by); Robert Leonard; Felicity Barnes; Andrew Clifford; Blair French; Terrence Handscomb; Emil McAvoy; Emma Ng; Lara Strongman
$30.00 NZD
Category: photography
"In 2001, Gavin Hipkins unveiled his photo frieze, The Homely, at City Gallery Wellington. Consisting of eighty photos taken between 1997 and 2000 on travels in New Zealand and Australia, neighbouring antipodean colonies, it became his best-known and most celebrated work. In 2018, he unveiled its sequel ...Show more
A Book of Days by Patti Smith
$43.00 NZD
Category: photography
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for ...Show more
A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa by Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins
$65.00 NZD
Category: photography
In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these 'portraits in a machine' reveal Maori and Pakeha to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs 'a g ...Show more
Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art: Uncovered, Explored, Explained by Matthew Wilson
$65.00 NZD
Category: General
For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of how to think about art is a perennial riddle. Art Uncovered is the perfect resource for both audiences: an engaging, visual primer for the ge ...Show more
Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design | Reading Level: near fine
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more
Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Sky by Peter Vangioni
$70.00 NZD
Category: General
Bill Hammond was an artist with a singular vision. One of the greats of Aotearoa’s art history, his paintings of bird-people occupying mythologised landscapes empty of human inhabitants have mesmerised audiences for three decades. This book shows the artist at his finest. Features: • An exclusive inter ...Show more
Colour Your Own Medieval Alphabet by British Library
$25.00 NZD
Category: Design
A medieval A to Z with letters from the collections of the British Library to colour in Before the invention of the printing press, books were written out by hand, and were priceless objects. The most precious books were illuminated with gold or with bright colours. Initial letters were often highlighte ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$90.00 NZD
Category: General
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she brings her whip-smart yet accessible sensibility ...Show more
Gretchen Albrecht - Between Gesture and Geometry (rev. ed.) by Luke Smythe
$85.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design
Gretchen Albrecht CNZM is one of New Zealand's most influential painters. Overthe course of her long career, her work has continued to surprise and delight,and her paintings feature in many important collections both in New Zealand andoverseas. This comprehensive survey of her much-admired work reveals ...Show more