Research
The Māori worldview - te ao Māori
- 10 April 2025
The Māori worldview considers everything living and non-living to be interconnected.
Artist: Anselm Kiefer
- 3 April 2025
Central to the artist’s interpretation of the past is its enduring correspondence with the present and future, endowing the artist’s work with restorative qualities of transformation and hope.
Endangered Species Aotearoa
- 2 April 2025
Visits the Whangamarino Swamp and wetlands, plus Pūkorokoro (Season 2, Episode 5 TVNZ)
Can't keep building stop-banks forever - scientists
- 28 March 2025
New Zealand must change the way it manages river flooding risks...
Auckland was once a food garden managed by Māori. That knowledge could shape the future.
- 28 March 2025
Tāmaki Makaurau was built off the back of Māori growing and selling food. How can we look to the past for what lies ahead?
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...
Using history & colour to point...
- 1 November 2024
Artists using bright colour and/or historical imagery
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 'Theatre Country - Essays on landscape and whenua'
- 22 February 2024
Chapter 12 - 'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained.'