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Irritable in Aotearoa; Darwin & the Barbarians
- 25 February 2025
The New Zealand that Charles Darwin dismissed as “the land of cannibalism and all atrocity” after his short visit in 1835, later featured prominently in his writings on evolution.
Landscape and Memory
- 24 February 2025
by Simon Schama. In particular, Schama's comments on Anselm Kiefer.
Maps of the Hauraki Plains
- 15 February 2025
Historical photos of Hauraki Plains
- 15 February 2025
Sourced online from Auckland Library, Papers Past...
Ngāti Pāoa history
- 6 January 2025
One of the iwi associated with the Hauraki Plains, and its food basket.
Using history & colour to point...
- 1 November 2024
Artists using bright colour and/or historical imagery
White-Saviour-Industrial-Complex
- 5 August 2024
Deep dive: Artist lecture with Andy Butler @ Artspace Aotearoa
Endeavour by Anton Maurer
- 14 July 2024
visualising the impacts of capitalism and colonisation on Aotearoa
Artist: Brett Graham - Wasteland
- 16 May 2024
Wastelands continues themes from Brett’s recent exhibition Tai Moana Tai Tangata ....
Geoff Park 'Ngā Uruora - Groves of Life - ecology & history in a New Zealand landscape'
- 30 March 2024
Chapter One 'The Immense Trees of Ooahaouragee'
Geoff Park 'Theatre Country - Essays on landscape and whenua'
- 22 February 2024
Chapter 12 - 'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained.'
Paint + Collagist Jo Dalgety - Meet the Artist
- 5 June 2023
Jo Dalgety's beautiful mixed media work explores the markers that people leave within the landscape..
Artist Jo Dalgety: Why Do You Seek After It
- 1 February 2023
Jo Dalgety is a landscape painter and collagist with her collection on display at Newmarket's Railway Street Gallery + Studios.
Hiatus proves too much for Pied Beauty
- 28 December 2018
Jo Dalgety undertook a self-imposed, three month hiatus of art making.
Pocket Edition: small works for large walls 2016
- 21 November 2016
Jo Dalgety is a landscape painter and the ten small works she exhibited in 'Pocket Edition' in 2015 were broody, dark and emotionally raw.
Pocket Edition: Small works for large walls
- 15 July 2015
Jo Dalgety's paintings are a painterly collision between abstract expressionist, minimalism and the natural world.
The Collector's Collection: Warwick Henderson's Feedback
- 26 October 2014
Dalgety has achieved this admirably with subtle washes of ultramarine, cobalt blue and sap green.
Anima Locus
- 7 March 2010
Jo Dalgety adds a soft, misty sense of spirituality to her rich landscape paintings...
Our Amy's art is uncovered
- 25 February 2010
Dalgety uses more traditional oils and watercolours, layering bright colours which glow through the earthy hues.
Anima Locus, Jane Ruck-Doyle
- 1 February 2010
Jo employs the traditional media of oil paint and watercolour ...