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    • Dugald Page, stained glass windows at Westlake Boys High School

Dugald Page

Stained glass windows at Westlake
 
The stained glass window has traditional connections to commemoration and memorial. It is an art form of illustration, instruction and enlightenment. It is usually tasked with saying something, or many things – important things – it is not enough to be good looking.   Dugald Page’s… Read more
    • L. Budd, National Park (sorry) (2008), disputed: denied by The Estate of L. Budd (et al.); courtesy of the artists
    • L. Budd, Untitled (1992), hand-poured silicon, plaster, wallpaper, 13 x 56 x 30cm; courtesy of the artists
    • L. Budd, untitled N.D. (c.1997) awning, acrylic paint, 135 x 550 x 110cm; courtesy of the artists
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The Death of L.Budd

by Amanda Wayers
 
Amanda Wayers reviews a 2008 retrospective of the late artist’s work.    The Estate of L. Budd commemorates and defines L. Budd’s life’s work in a retrospective exhibition at Michael Lett gallery, accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue raisonné. The project promises to make a definitive statement… Read more
    • Billy Apple, Untitled, 1965

Billy Apple

Untitled, 1965
 
Billy Apple has the distinction to be a leading figure in two international art movements. First, in London, he was part of Britain’s pop generation in the early 1960s. In 1964, having changed name from Barrie Bates to Billy Apple he presented the first solo pop… Read more
    • Pat Hanly, Lunar Lover I

Pat Hanly

Lunar Lover I
 
They say that love is blind. If this is true, then it is a paradox, and equally true, that lovers see more clearly; innocently. The lover sees in the loved one, qualities only glimpsed by others. If lovers are blind in one eye, they are all-seeing… Read more
    • Dan Arps, Outreach (2006), image courtesy of the artist and Gambia Castle, Auckland
    • Eve Armstrong, Easy Plateau (2007), image courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett, Auckland
    • Simon Denny, Untitled (Blue Fish) (2007), image courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett, Auckland
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This Art's Rubbish

by Amanda Wayers
 
Auckland artists dumping cardboard boxes and tatty blankets into white-washed galleries are being lauded as the cutting edge of contemporary art. Amanda Wayers asks where the beauty is in a hunk of junk.   It looks like a pile of rubbish randomly dragged off the street.… Read more
    • Marie Strauss, Round Pot. 2001. Handbuilt stoneware with multi-fired slips and glazes. 26 x 14 cm. Private Collection. phot courtesy of the artist.
    • Marie Strauss, Untitled. 2002. Handbuilt stoneware with multi-fired slips and glazes. 19 x 29 cm. Private Collection. Photo courtesy of the artist.
    • Marie Strauss, Fortress II. 2001. Handbuilt stoneware with multi-fired slips and glazes. 24 x 29 cm. World Ceramics Exposition Collection, South Korea. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Marie Strauss

Mud, Coats and Cheese
 
MARIE STRAUSS'S POTTERY is located down a long stream-bounded and wooded track in the tiny farming community of North Taieri in New Zealand's South Island. Though hot and bright during the brief summer months, the farm where she works and finds her clay is mostly wet and… Read more
    • Ian Scott, Portrait of Don Binney
    • Don Binney, Sun Shall Not Burn Thee by Day Nor Moon by night, Auckland Art Gallery collection
    • Don Binney, Pole line Te Henga, oil on board, dated MM
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Ian Scott

Portrait of Don Binney at Te Henga, 1969
 
I’d like to sit this painting alongside one by Binney from three years earlier. You may know the one I mean as it hangs just down the road in Auckland Art Gallery. It’s the one Binney painted of Te Henga (Bethells Beach) from almost the same… Read more
 
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