Towards Modernism: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa ForHer

Towards Modernism: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa ForHerBY JUSTINE OLSEN A Treasure Trove of Design The Walter C Cook Collection of Decorative Arts is one of the treasures of Te Papa. Built up over a twenty five year period by Walter Cook, a discerning and determined collector of modest means, its glass, ceramic and metal objects track the evolution of design from the Arts and Crafts movement through to the British and European modernism of the 1970s. The worlds leading designers William Morris,

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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

My Place and the ongoing Place In Time documentary project

Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi) is Director of the Dowse Art Museum and was formerly the Director and Curator of Tauranga Art Gallery

it comprises an important and faithful record of information gleaned over a lifetime's close association with the Ngāpuhi people

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and kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Tūpoho and kaumātua for the Whanganui District Health Board and the Whanganui Regional Museum

He is involved with Pest free NZ

The rise of an impressive ceramics movement is one of the more striking developments in contemporary Māori art

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