Category: Textiles
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Appropriation or appreciation?
Recently friends have been asking the current Big Question: what, in my opinion, is the difference between appropriation and appreciation? These days, appropriation is a Hot Topic and rightly so. For centuries people have been borrowing from others to create, and often the original creators have not benefitted. As an example, the song “The Lion…
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Peter McIntyre’s Pacific
The artist, Peter McIntyre, was born in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand in 1910 and had a long, distinguished painting career. He is principally known as a landscape painter but his portraits reveal his early start as a fashion illustrator. The artist, Peter McIntyre, was born in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand in 1910 and had a…
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The Nature of Textiles – exhibition opening
(This article was originally published on the 25th September) This Friday saw the opening of The Nature of Textiles exhibition at the Left Bank Gallery in Greymouth Mawhera. The show is a celebration of materials and design that comes from the natural world and there are pieces from around the world on display for a…
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Dame Ngaio Marsh’s house
A few months back we visited Dame Ngaio Marsh’s recently restored house in Christchurch Otautahi. Each time the mystery writer, theatre director and artist travelled to the UK, she brought back something for the family house, that once was outside of town and surrounded by open land and hills, and so it is filled with…