Name: Robin White
Brand: Te Papa Press
SKU: 9780995138438
Price: 35.09 GBP
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Robin White

Something is Happening Here

Edited by: Sarah Farrar, Edited by: Nina Tonga, Edited by: Jill Trevelyan

Published by Te Papa Press

In Stock

£53.99

£35.09

Published: 26-May-2022
ISBN: 9780995138438

Hardback
304 Pages

Subjects:
Art of indigenous peoples
Individual artists
art monographs
Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
New Zealand

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The first book to be devoted to Robin Whites art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand and celebrates her status as one of our most important artists. Including more than 150 of her artworks, from early watercolour and drawings through to the exquisite recent collaborations with Pasifika artists, as well as photographs from throughout Robin Whites career, this book captures the life of a driven, bold, much-loved artist whose practice engages with the world and wrestles with its complexities.

Dr Sarah Farrar is the Head of Curatorial and Learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She is the former Senior Curator Art at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, held curatorial positions at City Gallery Wellington and is a graduate of the prestigious De Appel Curatorial Programme in the Netherlands. Sarah has been a member of Creative New Zealands New Zealand at Venice project team and Wellington City Councils Public Art Panel, and has contributed essays and articles to peer-reviewed journals, international art magazines and museum publications.

Dr Nina Tonga is Curator Contemporary Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She is from the villages of Vaini and Kolofoou in the Kingdom of Tonga and was born and raised in New Zealand. Nina has been involved in a number of writing and curatorial projects in New Zealand and the wider Pacific and was Curator of the Honolulu Biennial 2019. Her exhibitions include Home AKL (2012) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tonga i Onopooni (2014) at Pataka Art + Museum, Tīvaevae: Out of the Glory Box (2015) and Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists (2018-2019) at Te Papa.

Jill Trevelyan is a Wellington art historian and curator. She is the editor of Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters (Te Papa Press, 2004) and the co-author of Rita Angus: Live to Paint & Paint to Live (Random House, 2001). Her biography of Peter McLeavey won the book of the year award at the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.