Quilts

Date: 2010

By: Northart Gallery (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-TEXTILE-ARTS-2010-01

Description: Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of forty quilts. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Helen Parsons, Auckland, in 2013.

Date: 22 August 1989 - 22 Aug 1989

From: National Library of New Zealand: Audio and videotapes relating to various events

Reference: OHInt-0197/08

Description: Recording of the reception for the Peace Quilt, presented by the women of Missoula, United States, to the New Zealand Government in recognition of its stand on the issue of nuclear weapons. Received at the National Library by Marilyn Waring. Venue - Wellington Venue - National Library Foyer, Wellington Quantity: 2 videocassette(s). 1 event(s). 1 Hours Duration.

Date: 2000 - 2009

Reference: Eph-C-TEXTILE-ARTS-2000/2009

Description: Includes: 2000: Wellington Quilters' Guild exhibition. Stitching stories - today, tomorrow, together. NZ Academy of Fine Arts Queens Wharf Wellington, 4-8 October 2000 (poster designed by Riet van Koeverden shows quilts by Esther Woollaston, K J Haywood and Alison Levingston) (2 copies) 2001: Patterns in leaves and cloth. Pacific Pathways. Auckland Museum, 11 April - 15 July 2001. 2002: Wellington Quilters Guild. "Rapt in fabric"; a exhibition of quilts. NZ Academy of Fine Arts Queens Wharf Wellington, 10-20 October 2002 (Shows quilts by Margy-Jean Malcolm, Clare Smith, Riet van Koeverden, Judi Ferguson and Thelma Read) 2004: Yardage; textiles in art, fashion and interiors. 3 contemporary textile exhibitions. Yardage - combined textiles of New Zealand exhibition; Judy Turner - guest exhibitor; Extraordinary lengths - an exhibition by the Textile Art Studio. Academy of Fine Arts Queens Wharf Wellington, 28 August - 12 September [2004] (shows "Uppity fabrics 3" by Diana Parkes, and detail from "Waiting for the monsoon" by Judy Turner) (2 copies) 2004?: "Topstitch"; City & Guilds creative embroidery graduation exhibition.l Nancy's Embroidery Shop. Academy of Fine arts Queens Wharf, 25-31 March [2004?] 2005: Weavers national hui Taranaki 2005. Owae Marae, Waitara, Labour weekend 21-24 October 2005 2006: Quilt exhibition hosted by the Wellington Quilters' Guild. Academy Galleries Queens Wharf, 21 September - 1 October 2006 (Shows "Quilt made out of ties" by Sharon perry) 2008: Capital Quilters Inc exhibition 2008. "Capital colours; modern contemporary & traditional quilts". Horticultural Hall Laings Road Lower Hutt, 15-16 march [2008] Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying about 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources including Wadestown Public Library and Phantom Billstickers. One item donated by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2015.

Date: 1970 - 1989

Reference: Eph-D-TEXTILE-ARTS-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1975: Auckland City Art Gallery. Festival exhibitions. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson 7 March - 10 April; "Three dimensional fibre", 11-31 March [1975] 1978: Craft New Zealand / Les metiers d'art en Nouvelle-Zelande / Kunsthandwerk Neuseeland. Organised by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand 1978. (Shows detail of catalogue number 28, photographed by John S Daley) 1979: Rangimarie Hetet & Digger Te Kanawa, Korowai weavers. Waikato Art Museum, 5 April to 6 May 1979. 1980?: Exhibition of batiks by Dinah [Priestley] and Tony [Burton]. Antipodes Gallery, cnr Dixon and Taranaki Streets, 24 July - 6 August [1980?] 1980s: Australian tapestry; Victorian Tapestry Workshop. Dunedin Public Art Gallery 1-22 June; Wellington National Art Gallery 26 June - 23 July. Also showing will be an exhibition of screen prints by John Coburn and Alun Leach-Jones [1980s?] (Shows detail of "Paradise" by Henri Bastin) (2 copies) Fred Butler. Quilts. Auckland Museum, 6-28 March [ca 1980-1983?] 1981: An exhibition of batik from Indonesia. Racquets Restaurant, NZ Squash Centre, Kelburn Parade / Salamanca Rd, 23 February - 6 March [1981] Tapestry; Henry Moore & West Dean. Auckland City Art Gallery 19 June - 2 August; National Art Gallery Wellington 14 August - 4 October; Dunedin Public Art Gallery 16 October - 29 November; Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch 11 December [1981] - 24 January [1982] (2 copies) 1983?: "Where were you Mr Spick & Span?"; an exhibition by Dinah and Tony. [Dinah Priestley and Tony Burton]. Antipodes Gallery, cnr Dixon and Taranaki Sts, Wellington, June 27th - July 9th [1983?] 1984: Pacific adornment. Dowse Art Museum, Laings Road, Lower Hutt NZ, 2 December 1984 - 1 September 1985, with the assistance of Unilever NZ Ltd & Air New Zealand Work by Megan; custom screenprinting & fabric painting, interior goods, fabrics, clothing for sale - Rm 14, 1st fl Boulcott Chambers, 6-8 Boulcott St [1984] 1986: Stanley Palmer banners, constructed by Frana Stanish. 18th November - 5th December 1986. Artis Gallery, Norfolk House, 18 High St., Auckland. Ph. 390-612. 1988: Kapa Kuiki; an exhibition of Hawaiian quilts and quilting. Dowse Art Museum Laings Road Lower Hutt, 12-16 October [1988] (2 copies) 1986-1989?: Ohaki Enterprises Ltd. He taonga tuku iho - an inheritance. Exhibition Maori weaving, featuring work of three generations - Dr Rangimarie Hetet, MBE, CBE; Rangituatahi Te Kanawa; Kahutoi Mere Te Kanawa. Venue Ohaki Maori Village Waitomo, date 6th January - 3rd February [ca 1986-1990?] Quantity: 4 b&w art print(s). 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying about 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-TEXTILE-ARTS-1970s

Description: Includes: 1974: Three dimensional fibre. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 6 Dec [1974] - 5 Jan [1975]. Organised by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth and sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand (Relief print on hessian, 3 copies) 1975: Three dimensional fibre. Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 28 April - 18 May [1975]. Organised by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth and sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand (Relief print on hessian) 1977: Batik by Linga Linga. Cultural Centre, Cuba Mall, 14-25 Nov [1977] Wellington Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild. Exhibition. Guest potter Stephen Carter of Nelson. At Turnbull House Bowen Street, 21 June - 2 July [1977] 1978: Antipodes Gallery. An exhibition of batiks by Dinah Wright & Tony Burton [July 1978]. Catalogue 1979: Canadian quilts. Rutherford Hotel Nelson Aug 11-26; National Art Gallery Wellington Sept 15 - Oct 14; H.B. Museum and Art Gallery Napier Oct 18-31; Waikato Art Museum Hamilton Nov 6-20; Settlers Motor Inn Whangarei Nov 23-30; War Memorial Museum Auckland Dec 4-16 [1979] (2 copies) Weaving; an exhibition of work by 11 Canterbury craftswomen. Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 14 October - 18 November 1979. Quantity: 7 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints and photolithographs, sizes varying about 500 x 350 mm.

Date: 1990 - 2009

Reference: Eph-D-TEXTILE-ARTS-1990/2009

Description: Includes: 1992: New Zealand's "Gift to the Globe"; four magnificent embroidered hangings for the stage of the reconstructed Globe Theatre (Shows "Adonis", photography by Julia Brooke-White). Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Buckle street Wellington, 3 December 1992 - 7 February 1993. A Wellington Shakespeare Society project. 1994: "Provided with eyes"; Bryony Dalefield. Dowse Art Museum Laings Road Lower Hutt, 10 December [1994] - 5 March [1995]. British Council - brought to New Zealand and toured by the Dowse Art Museum (2 copies) 1996: Dowse Art Museum. Maningrida; the language of weaving. Dowse Art Museum, Laings Road Lower Hutt Aotearoa / New Zealand. 23 November 1996 - 16 February 1997. An exhibition of contemporary Australian Aboriginal weaving from Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Photography of Dillybags by Robert Colvin. [1996] (2 copies) 2007: Otago Museum. "Seasons of indigo; Japanese textile art". Special Exhibitions Gallery, 1 September - 28 November 2007. Made possible with the support of: Japan-Australia-NZ Society, Shizuoka-NZ Society, Otaru-NZ Society, Air New Zealand, Nagano Broadcasting Corporation Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying about 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: One poster donated by the Hocken Library, Dunedin, in 2012.

Date: 1990 - 1999

Reference: Eph-C-TEXTILE-ARTS-1990s

Description: Includes: 1992: The quilters' garden; Wellington Quilters' Guild exhibition. Education and Environment Centre Wellington Botanic Garden. 11-18 October 1992. Floriade, a Wellington City Council Botanic Garden event (2 copies) 1993: Janome, leaders in sewing machine technology present "The romance of embroidery". A Central Regional Arts Council touring exhibition. Turnbull House, 13-23 May [1993] Quilt exhibition, Quilt Symposium '93. Recreational Hall, Central Institute of Technology, Somme Road, Trentham, 15-19 May [1993] (Shows "Spider web star" ca 1890, from the collection of Susan Cave, photographed by Sal Criscillo) 1995: Travelling Suitcase exhibition of woven tapestry (shows "Connections" by Beryl Denton). Wellington School of Architecture & Design, 1-22 November 1995; Hastings Library 1-22 December 1995; Hauraki House Coromandel 8-21 January 1996; Auckland Pumphouse 9-23 February 1996; Whakatane District Museum & Gallery 4-31 March 1996. 1996: Wellington Quilters' Guild exhibition (shows "Log cabin quilt" by Margaret Jones, photographed by Chris Coad). Brierley Theatre Wellington College 17-22 September 1996. Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying about 500 x 350 mm.

Date: 14 Nov 1998

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Gee, Marjorie, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0728/06

Description: Marjorie Gee (nee Williams) born London 1933. Outlines Welsh background of family. Describes living in Pembrokeshire for five years during the War and attending a Welsh-speaking school. Talks of events when war was declared in 1939, and stoic attitude when other children said goodbye to their mothers and were taken by double-decker buses and train to distribution centre at Henley (On Thames). Discusses quilt making and traditional designs; relatives in Wales; religion, going to Chapel in the morning and Sunday School in the afternoon; school which had prayers in English and Welsh on alternative days; flowers and New Zealand pen-friend, Jocelyn Pearn of Opotiki who later came to Britain on a working holiday and both travelling to New Zealand on the `Southern Cross', arriving 1957. Recalls taking a two year course in Chiropody, qualifying at age 18. Recalls life in New Zealand from 1955 ot 1957 and details the return home on the `Southern Cross', spending three years in England before returning to New Zealand in 1960, travelling on the 'Rangitata'. Recalls meeting husband, Dennis Gee, various moves in New Zealand, birth of son in 1963, and moving into current house ten days before the Wahine Storm. Describes the effect of the storm on their house and houses nearby. Recalls first contact with Welsh Society in New Zealand while in Christchurch. Refers to Nan Griffiths and Heulwen Roylands. Talks about the Red Cross rooms and the great importance attached to food. Describes costumes worn for Citizens Carol Service and Welsh Society dinner when Dame Cath Tizard attended. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Linda Bevan Smith Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011900-011902 ; OHLC-005960-005962 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4094.

Date: 1970

From: [Various cartoonists] :Sir Robert Muldoon cartoons by Nevile Lodge, Sid Scales, Eric Heath and T. Laiman. 1971-1989.

Reference: A-291-043

Description: Cartoon shows an unshaven Robert Muldoon peacefully sleeping under a patchwork quilt of tax surcharge, cigarette tax, higher PO charges, mini-budget, tax, incentive kill, high tax rate. He sleeps through the sounds of the bell ringing in parliament summoning members to the chamber for "Division". The quotation from Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" refers to the character of Cardinal Wolsey as described by Catherine in ambivalent words. It suggests that Muldoon's stern taxation measures do not trouble his conscience. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and wash, image 268 x 260 mm on board, 360 x 315 mm.

Date: ca 1910

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-021595-G

Description: Unidentified Maori group (from the Tauri family?), and a Pakeha man, alongside rows of Maori cloaks, and quilts, circa 1910. Possibly at a tangi. Photograph probably taken in the Wanganui region by F G Denton or Mark Lampe. Inscriptions: [on neg] 9325 Tauri Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 2005

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0000336

Description: The scene is the bedroom of Prime Minister, Helen Clark and her husband, Professor Peter Davis. They are sitting reading in their beds; Peter Davis is hugging a stuffed bear as he reads a book called 'Winnie's & Pooh' and Helen Clark's book is called 'Living with patchwork'. Her bed is covered with a patchwork quilt which includes the word 'GOVT'. The reference is to the way in which proportional representation can have the effect of creating a somewhat patchwork-like government, which in this case includes Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First, as Minister of Foreign Affairs outside Cabinet. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-212658-F

Description: Couple under cover in bed, man with Somerset Maugham book, 23/11/60, photographed by K E Niven and Co of Wellington Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Studio card index: no 5426.

Date: 2022

By: Toi Pōneke Arts Centre; Carleton, Chora Luz, active 2016-2022

Reference: Eph-C-0001

Description: Three items of promotional material relating the “Making monomono: Ane’s pani-style” exhibition at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Wellington, from 13 August to 9 September 2022. The exhibition featured monomono pani (sewn quilts and bedspreads) by maker Ane Nanasi Pahulu, (Faleloa. Ha’apai). Monomono are used by Tongan communities in important cultural ceremonies and rituals and are a form of Tongan koloa (treasures and wealth). Contains one A3 poster with a photograph of Ane Nanasi Pahulu in front of one of her monomono. Also one full colour flier featuring a monomono pattern. Both items were designed by Chora Carleton and advertise the exhibition. Also one A6 folded brochure, designed by Chora Carleton in collaboration with Rachel Yates, who curated the exhibition. The brochure describes the story behind the exhibition, includes biographical information on Pahulu, and has a room sheet and list of works on reverse. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 3 pieces. Physical Description: One A3 colour poster, one A6 folded brochure printed on 160gsm, one colour flier printed on 280gsm. Processing information: Library reference changed 27 March 2024. Previous reference: fMS-Papers-12788.