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"Make your own menagerie of ADORABLE KNITTED ANIMALS with this ALL-NEW collection of 35 patterns from much-loved knitting author SUE STRATFORD. Knit animals of the SAVANNAH, RAINFOREST, SKY and OCEAN, RIVERS and LAKES. These mini animals are perfect for USING...

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"This beautiful volume accompanies a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery that will reunite for the first time in 120 years an extraordinary group of Claude Monet's Impressionist paintings of London. The exhibition will realise the artist's unfulfilled...

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"Among the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group of 27 eighteenth-century views of Venice, known as vedute, by Canaletto and his followers, including Francesco Guardi. They hang together in a dedicated gallery...

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Past Present Futures: A Decade of Asian Aotearoa Arts is a 144-page full-colour book that documents and expands upon the breadth, depth, and scope of the landmark Asian Aotearoa Arts Programme-a series of exhibitions, workshops, talks, tours and public events...

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"This comprehensive text traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose Indigenous Māori practitioners have made a significant impact on acting processes, principles and values in this postcolonial nation. Each chapter outlines not...

"Margaret Hansen paints and writes from Makorori Beach in Te Tairāwhiti, the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. The exhibition and book were conceived as a simple idea - to honour the family place of her two aunties who were Catholic nuns. However, it...

"The climate crisis is here. Where once we might have pretended it was happening somewhere else or was only going to hit us some time further down the line, it's now clear that this human-made breakdown is having devastating impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand...

"This publication seeks to explore what it means for a 'graphic design' studio to operate within the context of an 'art' school. Design studios/departments were pulled out of all other art schools around New Zealand in the 1990s and set up as stand-alone...

Published on the occasion of exhibition 'Spring in the Parapara', Brett McDowell Galler, 16 August-5 September 2024.