A series of articles by Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery (CNZARD) staff on individual works in the collection, published in the University's fortnightly newsletter UniNews.
Titling her work after the building method beloved by immigrant pioneers in the outback of Australia, Rosalie Gascoigne weaves text-laden soft drink crate wood into a grid of yellow and black.
One of the most iconic images of a New Zealand subject is Mt Egmont from the Southwards, painted in September 1840 by 20- year-old Charles Heaphy.
When potter John Parker began making a name for himself in the 1970s, the clean, manufactured look of mass-produced Crown Lynn ceramics was losing its fashionable status and was certainly not to be taken seriously by potters.