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Juliet Batten
Juliet Batten (born 1942) played a role in the establishment of the feminist art movement in New Zealand with performance work involving ritual and community involvement. She went on to become a psychotherapist and healer committed to community-driven ritualistic practices. Early life Juliet Batten was born in Inglewood in 1942. After studying in Taranaki and Auckland she graduated in 1969 with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland. Batten then spent two years in Paris on a Doctoral Fellowship. On her return to New Zealand she combined teaching art history at the University of Auckland with art-making and settled in Te Henga outside Auckland. Art practice Batten began her art career as a craft person who went on to paint, but by the early 1980s she was focused on performing and recording ritual based works that foregrounded environmental and feminist issues. Often in the form of nature-based rituals, Batten's work depended on the co-operation and collaboration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponsonby, New Zealand
Ponsonby is an inner-city suburb of Auckland located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD. The suburb is oriented along a ridge running north–south, which is followed by the main street of the suburb, Ponsonby Road. A predominantly upper-middle class residential suburb, Ponsonby today is also known in Auckland for its dining and shopping establishments – many restaurants, cafes, art galleries, up-market shops and nightclubs are located along Ponsonby Road. The borders of Ponsonby are often seen as being rather fluid, taking in St Mary's Bay and Herne Bay to the north and including Freemans Bay to the east and Grey Lynn to the south and west. Ponsonby is properly bounded by Jervois Road to the north, Richmond Road to the south and Ponsonby Road to the east. The area was originally a working class to middle class area. From the Great Depression until the 1980s it contained many rundown buildings, and had a somewhat 'colourful' reputation. This was partially due to some criminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Women Artists
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1942 Births
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Living People
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Broadsheet (magazine)
''Broadsheet'' was a monthly New Zealand feminist magazine produced in Auckland from 1972 to 1997. The magazine played a significant part in New Zealand women's activism. It was to become one of the world's longest-lived feminist magazines. It was co-founded by Anne Else, Sandra Coney, Rosemary Ronald, and Kitty Wishart. The magazine was "New Zealand's first feminist magazine focusing on women's issues and information sharing on a national and international level".Auckland City Libraries, ''Broadsheet Collective'', p 2 The first issue was released in July 1972, and "consisted of twelve foolscap pages – stapled"; 200 copies were produced, which sold out. Before the second issue was published they had 50 paid subscribers. Māori issues sometimes received considerable coverage in the magazine, which provoked "fierce exchanges in the letters pages". On 19 September 1992, the magazine and New Women's Press (NWP) celebrated a joint anniversary (''Broadsheets twentieth and NWP's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landfall (journal)
''Landfall'' is New Zealand's oldest extant literary magazine. The magazine is published biannually by Otago University Press. As of 2020, it consists of a paperback publication of about 200 pages. The website ''Landfall Review Online'' also publishes new literary reviews monthly. The magazine features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and reviews of books, art, film, drama, and dance. ''Landfall'' was founded and first edited by New Zealand poet Charles Brasch. It was described by Peter Simpson in the ''Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (2006) as "the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature". Historian Michael King said that during the twentieth century, "''Landfall'' would more than any other single organ promote New Zealand voices in literature and, at least for the duration of Brasch's editorship (1947–66), publish essays, fiction and poetry of the highest standard". Background Denis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Gallery Wellington
City Gallery Te Whare Toi is a public art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. History City Gallery Te Whare Toi began its life as the Wellington City Art Gallery on 23 September 1980 in a former office block located at 65 Victoria Street, now the site of Wellington Central Library. The first exhibition was a group show of Wellington artists. In 1989, as work began on the new Wellington Library and Civic Centre, the gallery relocated to the other side of Victoria Street to occupy the old Chews Lane Post Office for four years until 1993 when it was rebranded as City Gallery and moved to its present location on the north-eastern side of Civic Square. Since 1995, City Gallery has been managed on behalf of the Wellington City Council by the Wellington Museums Trust which now trades as Experience Wellington. The current building City Gallery currently occupies the former Wellington Central Library building. Built in 1940 in an Art Deco style, this building replaced the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F1 Sculpture Project
The F1 Sculpture Project was five weeks of installation, performance and video art held in Wellington, New Zealand in 1982. F1 was a Conceptual art event that extended sculpture into temporary, multi-part, mixed-media, performance, environmental, intervention art, placing importance on the ideas rather than the objects being created. Background Designed to "address the lack of support and increase exposure for sculptors", the project was initiated by Ian Hunter, an Irish-born artist and gallery professional who lived in New Zealand between 1970 and 1984. Hunter worked with the Artists' Co-op (April 1978–1980) which held several events and exhibitions, the F1 Sculpture Project (1982) and ANZART, a New Zealand-Australian artist event held in Christchurch in 1981, Hobart in 1983 and Auckland in 1985. The Wellington F1 Sculpture Project was implemented by a group of New Zealand artists, including David Mealing, Stuart Griffiths, Barbara Strathdee, Mary Louise Brown and Vivian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Vision Gallery
New Vision Gallery was a contemporary craft and art gallery operating in Auckland, New Zealand in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. History The Gallery was established in 1957 by Dutch artists Kees (Cornelis) Hos (born 1916, The Hague, Netherlands - died 3 December 2015), a printmaker and painter, and his wife, weaver Tina (Albertine) Hos (died 1976), who emigrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1956. Kees and Tina Hos originally opened the New Vision Craft Centre in Takapuna with the aim of making high quality work by New Zealand craftspeople available to the public. The gallery was named after Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy's influential book ''The New Vision, from Material to Architecture''. It became one of a small number of retail spaces and dealer galleries, including Helen Hitchings Gallery in Wellington (opened 1949) and Brenner Associates in Auckland, that showed contemporary craft alongside fine art and design. In early 1959 the Hoses moved New Vision to His Majes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Neill Bay
O'Neill Bay is a bay on the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located north of Te Henga / Bethells Beach. Description O'Neill Bay is directly north of Te Henga / Bethells Beach, between Erangi Point to the south and Raetahinga Point to the north. An island is found to the south of the bay, named Kauwahaia Island. The Te Henga Walkway follows the ridge around the bay. Geology O'Neill Bay and the cliffs around Raetahinga Point are the remnants of a Miocene era volcanic crater complex. The 100 metre thick sequence is composed of at least 11 thin andesite flows, interspersed with breccia, scoria and lapilli tuffs. History The bay is within the traditional rohe of the Te Kawerau ā Maki iwi. The bay's name, Te Awakauwahaia, or Kauwahia for short, refers to the ancestress Erangi. Erangi was a woman of high birth who lived at Te Ihumoana at Te Henga / Bethells Beach in approximately the 14th century. After falling in love with a man at Puketōtara to the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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