Author: Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

A superb showcase of some of the best examples of contemporary fine art printmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand today.

November 2022 releases

Author: Roger Horrocks. Reviewer: Graham Reid.

Culture in a Small Country, by Roger Horrocks, provides a remarkably wide-ranging but indepth account of the arts in New Zealand.

August 2022 release

Author: Donovan Bixley. Reviewer: Sarah Forster.

What an astonishing thing Donovan Bixley has achieved in completing his accessible, playful portrait of Leonardo da Vinci after so many years’ research and work. A portrait of Leonardo sees Bixley stretch himself as an artist in imagining the world and life of Leonardo da Vinci as it may have looked in the 15th century in Florence and beyond.

June 2022 release

Extract from: Robin White: Something Is Happening Here edited by Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan and Nina Tonga (Te Papa Press).

Robin White: Something Is Happening Here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White’s art in 40 years showcasing her remarkable 50 years as an artist with fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand - plus 150 of her artworks - to celebrate her status as one of our most important artists.

May 2022 release

Extract from: Robin White: Something Is Happening Here edited by Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan and Nina Tonga (Te Papa Press).

Robin White: Something Is Happening Here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White’s art in 40 years showcasing her remarkable 50 years as an artist with fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand - plus 150 of her artworks - to celebrate her status as one of our most important artists.

May 2022 release

Extract from: Robin White: Something Is Happening Here edited by Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan and Nina Tonga (Te Papa Press).

Robin White: Something Is Happening Here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White’s art in 40 years showcasing her remarkable 50 years as an artist with fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand - plus 150 of her artworks - to celebrate her status as one of our most important artists.

May 2022 release

Authors: Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek . Reviewer: Linda Herrick.

A lovely soft dreamy art-poetry partnership by Saskia Leek and Lynley Edmeades gently elevates domestic life.

May 2022 release

Author: Gregory O’Brien. Reviewer: Harry Ricketts.

Painter poet Gregory O’Brien’s extremely handsome new collection, House & Contents, brings together the two modes (45 poems, 23 paintings) and encourages us to contemplate them, to read them, separately and collectively.

March 2022 release

Edited by: Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins. Reviewer: Paul Simei-Barton .

Nature Boy: The Photography Olaf Petersen probably stands as one of the most thorough and comprehensive monographs on a New Zealand photographer and one hopes it will inspire similar studies of the numerous photographic artist who have helped to forge our visual heritage.

April 2022 release

Author: Sally Blundell. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

Many new buildings have arisen from the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch but none, perhaps, is as remarkable as Ravenscar House in the heart of the city’s heritage precinct. Sally Blundell’s well-written Ravenscar House: A biography tells the story of this unique development.

February 2022 release

Authors: Peter Vangioni with Tony de Lautour, Rachael King, Nic Low, Paul Scofield and Ariana Tikao, edited by Sarah Pepperle. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

“A dawn chorus of praise for an exceptional artist.”

September 2021 release

Author: Lizzie Bisley. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

Well-edited, well-produced and excellent value for money, this companion catalogue to the major Rita Angus show at Te Papa is also an excellent introduction to the artist and her work.

November 2021 release

Author: Ray Ching. Reviewer: Keith Woodley.

Ray Ching New Zealand bird paintings is one for anyone with an affection for birds or art.

December 2021 release

Author: Martin Hill & Philippa Jones. Reviewer: Paul Simei-Barton.

Environmental artists Martin Hill and Philippa Jones serve up a visual feast in Fine Line with 260 glossy pages documenting a series of ephemeral sculptures placed in stunningly beautiful locations around the globe.

November 2021 release

Author: Rebecca Rice and Matariki Williams. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

Such reminders of the materiality and historicity of the paintings as objects adds another dimension to the psychological, aesthetic and historical connotations of the portraits themselves …

October 2021 release

Author: Bruce Hunt. Reviewer: Jim Eagles.

Tussock is Bruce Hunt’s homage to what he calls ‘the Backlands’, and – apart from his one-page preface, a fascinating two-page foreword on tussock by Sir Alan Mark and minimal captions – it is a homage in images. While there are some colour photos, mostly Hunt makes use of the greater atmospheric qualities of black and white to convey the brooding loneliness of tussock country.

October 2021 release

Author: Dick Frizzell. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

Artist Dick Frizzell: “The universe — and everything in it — is always expanding into tomorrow. What a scene, eh? More magic than magic. Magic, mysterious and beautiful. And here we are. On the third rock from the sun, figuring it out.”

October 2021 release

Author: Clare Reilly. Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm captures a life lived with commitment and dedication where a sense of joy, hope, renewal and powerful elements of secular spirituality shine through in art which is striking yet also calming.

October 2021 release

Author: Gil Docking, Michael Dunn and Edward Hanfling. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

250 Years of New Zealand Painting is something of a publishing phenomenon, this being the fifth edition marked by a change in name to reflect the 50 years that have passed since it first appeared in 1971.

October 2021 release

Author: Bridget Hackshaw. Reviewer: Paul Simei-Barton.

Bridget Hackshaw’s superb photographs sensitively capture the way the coloured glass floods the church interiors with an ethereal radiance. At St Ignatius the impact is so overwhelming a child entering the church was overheard asking his mother “are we in heaven?”

October 2021 release