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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Awkward Places

18 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Thomas McLean reviews The Art of Colonisation: Images of Europe’s encounters with New Zealand by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, history

The Stumps of Trees Cut Down Were Still There

24 April 2026 2 Comments

David Eggleton reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He Kohinga Whakaahu by Sarah Farrar, Aotearoa Light: Moments of wonder and realisation in New Zealand wilderness by Peter Laurenson and Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau | Women and Photography Māreikura Whakaahua by Lissa Mitchell

Filed Under: art and photography

A Brilliant Stick With Which to Beat the Old Guard

1 February 2026 1 Comment

Ian Wedde reviews Out of the Blue: Essays on artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 by Christina Barton

Filed Under: art and photography, essays

The Active Verb of Emily Cumming Harris

1 December 2025 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson reviews Groundwork by Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

Nature Was My Friend

1 December 2025 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood reviews My Own Sort of Heaven: A life of Rosalie Gascoigne by Nicola Francis

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

Photographs Fixed in Silver

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli reviews Leslie Adkin: Farmer photographer by Athol McCredie

Filed Under: art and photography, history

Roads Lifted, Mountains Moved a Metre

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

Michelle Elvy reviews Town by Madeleine Slavick; Ash by Louise Wallace

Filed Under: art and photography, creative non-fiction, poetry

Soft, Grassy, Sweet-Smelling Tatami Mats

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

David Herkt on Japan: An autobiography by Peter Shaw

Filed Under: art and photography, travelogue

Different Versions of Tony

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Tony Fomison: Life of the artist by Mark Forman

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

Collective Action

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Modern Women: Flight of time edited by Julia Waite; Wing Dust: Exploring the eccentric mind of the artist June Black by Sheridan Keith; and Sight Lines: Women and art in Aotearoa by Kirsty Baker

Filed Under: art and photography

Delicate Shades of Sepia

1 February 2025 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on A Different Light: First photographs of Aotearoa edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins

Filed Under: art and photography

Whistling to Four Points of the Compass

1 December 2024 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood on Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Christopher Braddock, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Layne Waerea and Victoria Wynne-Jones

Filed Under: art and photography

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