David Eggleton A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand: Place and adornment, by Damian Skinner and Kevin Murray (Bateman Publishing, 2014), 248 pp., $69.99; Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand: Forty years of Fingers Jewellery Gallery, by Damian Skinner and Finn McCahon-Jones (Bateman Publishing, 2014), 152 pp., $59.99 Amulets, lodestones, talismans, totems: […]
Looking Directly at the Camera
Gary Blackman PhotoForum at 40: Counterculture, clusters and debate in New Zealand, by Nina Seja (Rim Books 2014, and PhotoForum issue 83, 2014) 300 pp., $65.00 PhotoForum at 40 is a major addition to the annals of photographic history in New Zealand. It’s a handsome volume of 300 pages of generous page size that comfortably […]
Euphoria
Gregory O’Brien Robert Ellis (with main essays by Hamish Keith, Elizabeth Hana and Ngarino Ellis, and further essays by Ian Sinclair, Tasha Haines and Stephen Higginson), (Ron Sang Publications, 2014), 312 pp., $135 Among the many memorable photographs of the painter Robert Ellis in this new, important monograph, one stands out. It is 1963 and […]
The Canvas that Ripples
Jodie Dalgleish Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the digital age by Edward Hanfling, with essays by Leonard Bell and Michael Dunn (Ron Sang Publications, 2014), 336 pp., $135 Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the digital age is a large and well-illustrated monograph that seeks to chronicle the life-long artistic journey of Mervyn Williams. It contains […]
Overseas Experience
Nicholas Reid Flying Kiwis: A history of the OE, by Jude Wilson (Otago University Press, 2014), 295 pp., $45 I have a confession to make. It must colour my review of Jude Wilson’s Flying Kiwis, a generously illustrated history, in part based on oral interviews, of young New Zealanders going off on their ‘Overseas Experience’ […]
Great Lost Moments
James Dignan I Believe You Are a Star, by Peter McLennan, (Dunbar Noon Publishing, 2013), 202 pp., $19.95 Magazine interviews have power and poignancy. The power comes from their immediacy; articles are read soon after being written, and interviewees express their thoughts of the moment, uncluttered by the weight of future events. The poignancy comes […]
Sailor
Rick Bryant Gutter Black: A Memoir, by Dave McArtney, (Harper Collins, 2014), 320 pp., $44.99 On the giant speaker cabinet perched precariously on the mezzanine level amidst the debris of Bruce Moose’s renovations was painted ‘Goodbye Dove’. The other one, at the entrance to the party floor of Mandrax mansion, read ‘Hello Sailor’. It was […]
Man in a Room Selling Dreams
David Eggleton Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer, by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press, 2013), 496 pp., $64.99 ‘I am not slaving my guts out as a dishwasher for kicks,’ Peter McLeavey wrote in a letter to Pat Hanly in December 1968. McLeavey was at that time working as […]
Smugglers’ Contraband
David Eggleton Promoting Prosperity: The art of early New Zealand advertising, by Peter Alsop and Gary Stewart (Craig Potton Publishing, 2013), 440 pp., $79.99; From Earth’s End: The best of New Zealand comics, by Adrian Kinnaird (Godwit, 2013) 447 pp., $59.99 You approach Promoting Prosperity: The art of early New Zealand advertising as if through […]
A Crystal in a Dark Cave
Peter Simpson Journals, 1938–1945, by Charles Brasch, transcribed by Margaret Scott, annotated by Andrew Parsloe, with an introductory essay by Rachel Barrowman, (University of Otago Press, 2013), 646 pp., $60 Some 530 pages of this compact-sized but thick hardback consist of Charles Brasch’s complete journals from July 1938 – when he passed through the United […]
Getting New Zealand Writing Into Theatres
Helen Watson White Playmarket 40: 40 Years of Playwriting in New Zealand, edited by Laurie Atkinson with David O’Donnell (Consulting Editor), (Playmarket, 2013), 150 pp., $40; Twenty New Zealand Playwrights, by Michelanne Forster and Vivienne Plumb, (Playmarket, 2013), 256 pp., $40 Theatre is often described as ephemeral. When you strike the set on the last […]
The Orient and Elsewhere
Andrew Paul Wood Incomplete Works, by Dylan Horrocks, (Victoria University Press, 2014), 192 pp., $35; A Rainbow Reader, by Tessa Laird, (Clouds, 2013), 192 pp., $25 Dylan Horrocks’ Incomplete Works tidily fills a gap in the published oeuvre of one of our greatest living comic strip auteurs, snapping up the unconsidered trifles of his shorter […]
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