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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

To Re-remember and Re-learn

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw; Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing climate by David Young.

Filed Under: art and photography, environment, memoir, natural history, social sciences

Art and the Environment in Photobooks

1 October 2021 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on The Near Future by Hannah Watkinson; Conversātiō – in the company of bees by Anne Noble

Filed Under: art and photography

Paradoxes, Mysteries and Obsessions

1 September 2021 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Ralph Hotere by Vincent O’Sullivan

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Dick’s Pics

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood on Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell

Filed Under: art and photography, memoir

He Whakarite Ataahua/A Beautiful Arrangement

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole on Ko Aotearoa Tātou, eds Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James Norcliffe and David Eggleton

Filed Under: art and photography, fiction, poetry, reviews and essays, short stories

The Politics of (In)Visibilities

1 December 2020 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Sapphic Fragments: Imogen Taylor with essays by M. Mitchell-Anyon and J. Drayton and Llew Summers by John Newton

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, gender identity

‘All art comes from the depths of one’s feelings’

1 July 2020 Leave a Comment

Michael Dunn on Louise Henderson, ed Felicity Milburn et al

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Solitary Grandeur

6 November 2019 Leave a Comment

Martin Edmond on McCahon Country by Justin Paton

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Impure First 

1 July 2019 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture

A Living Response

1 June 2019 1 Comment

Bernadette Hall on Joanna Paul’s ‘The Stations of the Cross’

Filed Under: art and photography

Put Yourself in My Place

1 February 2019 Leave a Comment

Chris Tse Summer Grass by Ginny Sullivan (Steele Roberts, 2017), 72 pp., $19.99; Edgeland and Other Poems by David Eggleton (Otago University Press, 2018), 112 pp., $27.50; View from the South by Owen Marshall with photographs by Grahame Sydney (Vintage, 2018), 208 pp., $40 It feels somewhat reductive in 2019 to be framing a review […]

Filed Under: art and photography, poetry

Engaging Photography

1 December 2018 Leave a Comment

Jodie Dalgleish Gavin Hipkins: The Domain (Victoria University Press, 2017), 240 pp., $70 The monograph Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, released in November 2017 to mark the opening of the Dowse Art Museum’s largest-ever survey exhibition of the same name, is a beautifully produced, super-illustrated tome. It begins with three ‘meaty’ essays, ends with a plethora […]

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture

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