Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand – 04/06/04 30 May – 22 August 2004 City Gallery Wellington is proud to present Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand in partnership with the Adam Art Gallery, the New Zealand Film Archive and Massey University. Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand (30 May – 22…
Lynette Hartley Reprinted from the University of Canterbury’s Chronicle – 13/10/03 The southern wall of the photocopy room in the Physics and Astronomy Department is about to become one of the most studied walls in the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. Over the next few weeks, a 1.6m by 1.6m ring laser, weighing more than…
Dorothy – 28/07/03 Discovering Carol Dawber and River Press has led me to some varied and interesting reading. Carol Dawber’s writing is skilled and polished and the range of topics in her books is evidence of her versatility. She seems equally at home writing history and fiction. The Jacksons of Te Awaiti traces the lives…
Reviewed by Dorothy – 11/06/03 I found this film so gripping that I have seen it twice and intend seeing it again. The plot is based on Witi Ihimaera’s novel Whale Rider and brought to life by the fine acting of experienced adults, especially Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, and Cliff Curtis, of Keisha Castle-Hughes playing…
Interviewed by Dorothy – 22/05/03 Margery Blackman Margery Blackman first became known nationally in New Zealand as a weaver of rugs and tapestry. More recently she has turned her energies to curatorial and conservation work particularly with historical textiles in Dunedin public collections. She was Honorary Curator of Ethnographic Textiles and Costume from Other Cultures…
Part 3 Dorothy -22/04/03 Biddy Pollard (née Davies) wrote to The Listener expressing her concern about the publication of the extract from “Auto da Fay”. Her letter was published under the heading, “Speak, Memory”. “I was a pupil of Christchurch Girls’ High School at the same time as Fay Weldon and in the extract from…
Part 1 Dorothy – 14/04/03 Old Girls who attended Christchurch Girls High School in 1944-6 were amazed and angered when they read in Auto da Fay Fay Weldon’s portrayal of the school in the years when she was a pupil there. They were also very displeased when the magazine, New Zealand Listener, chose to publish…
Dorothy – 31/03/03 In response to many requests Bill Moore now has available occasional cards featuring eight of his New Zealand paintings. They represent a range of his painting styles and depict a number of Christchurch and Canterbury scenes, including a wintet high country scene, Akaroa and Duvauchelle on Banks Peninsula and the Worcester Street…
Amanda Smith – 10/02/03 Since 1958 the University of Otago Press has published a wide range of New Zealand books in the fields of literary criticism, the classics, medicine, dentistry, education and history. In recent times, the Press has widened its embrace to include poetry and fiction, as well as Maori, Pacific and Asian studies…
Dorothy – 07/02/03 “Corporate flowers and corporate gift baskets are an important part of my growing business, but I love working with flowers for all occasions,” said Jan Hughes, owner of Blooms Beserk. “In England I trained as a nurse and as a florist. As a nurse I saw what it meant to patients to…
