Decorative arts - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1983-1984

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-6090

Description: Views of the exhibition `Search for Style' at the Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. The views include items on show such as domestic stained glass windows, Victorian and Edwardian art pottery by William de Morgan, Burmantofts, and William Moorcroft, and wallpapers from the 1920s. The poster for the exhibition. 'Search for Style' Exhibition which was staged at the Dowse Art Museum from late 1983 to early 1984. It's subject was British applied art design from 1870 to 1930. Items exhibited included stained glass, tiles, ornamental plaster, glassware, ceramics, metalware, fabrics, furniture, and graphic art. Curated by Walter Cook. Designed by James Mack (Galvin MacNamara) director of the Dowse. `Search for Style' was an exhibition of largly British applied arts from 1870 to 1930. Items for the exhibition came from public and private collections in New Zealand. It was curated by Walter Cook and designed by Dowse Director James Mack (Galvin MacNamara). It ran from September 1983 well into 1984. (Info-Walter Cook 2007). Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strips comprising 11 images.

Date: 1983-1984

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-6091

Description: Views of the exhibition `Search for Style' at the Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. The views include items on show such as domestic stained glass windows. Victorian and Edwardian art pottery by William de Morgan and Doulton Lambeth. Arts and crafts furniture. Ornamental plaster. Exhibition which was staged at the Dowse Art Museum from late 1983 to early 1984. It's subject was British applied art design from 1870 to 1930. Items exhibited included stained glass, tiles, ornamental plaster, glassware, ceramics, metalware, fabrics, furniture, and graphic art. Curated by Walter Cook. Designed by James Mack (Galvin MacNamara) director of the Dowse. `Search for Style' was an exhibition of largly British applied arts from 1870 to 1930. Items for the exhibition came from public and private collections in New Zealand. It was curated by Walter Cook and designed by Dowse Director James Mack (Galvin MacNamara). It ran from September 1983 well into 1984. (Info-Walter Cook 2007). Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strips comprising 13 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: Apr 1953-Dec 1954, 1962, 1964-1965, 1977-2010

By: Brooke-White, Julia Stace, 1942-

Reference: PA-Group-00421

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of art nouveau joinery designed by Wellington architects, Crichton and McKay, in 1909 for C H Dickerson of `Brentwood,' Karori Wellington. Photographed by Julia Brooke-White for the Alexander Turnbull Library in November 1990. Photographs of Festivals of Pacific Arts 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, taken by Julia Brooke-White. Prints and negatives for a book, `Every Kitchen tells a Story' written by Clare de Lore, and published by Harper Collins, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2000. Photographs (album, negatives and prints) relating to Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands and of Department of Conservation volunteers and paid workers, mainly carrying out meteorological observations there, from 1953 to 2003. Includes negatives which show art works which were the basis of a series of wall plaques around the living room walls of the workers' hostel on Raoul Island. Photographs taken 1977-1987 in Fiji including events, boats, buildings, industries, people, and activities. Also includes photographs taken in New Zealand of personalities, Crescent Engineering business, 2003, and Nambassa Festival 1979. Three photographs of of the hall at `Brentwood' taken by Harold Hislop in 1910, and showing this joinery in it original position, can be found in album PA1-f-29, pages 24 and 25. In ca 1979 `Brentwood' was demolished. Joinery installed in 1909 was sold at Dunbar Sloans Auction House soon after. Malcolm Sheffield bought it and installed some of it in his Oriental Bay house in 1990 which is where these photographs were taken. Photographs of Raoul Island were taken while Julia Brooke White was there as a volunteer in 2001, and as a paid worker from 2002 to 2003. Accompanying material - See back file under 'Brooke-White, Julia Stace', in Photographic Archive for further details about this collection. Includes photocopies of articles about the Festivals, many of which feature Julia Brooke-White's photographs. Also includes notes on the Raoul Island wall plaques (including individual titles) which are the subject of the negatives. Title supplied by Library. Drawings and prints holds plans made by Wellington architects Crichton and McKay, for the joinery for the new `Brentwood' interiors. These plans include plans and elevations of the whole house as well. Drawings and Prints reference is Plans-93-0274. Quantity: 3866 colour original transparency/ies. 1228 photograph(s). 750 b&w original photographic print(s). 607 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 2338 images. 42 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 62 images. 8 colour copy transparency/ies 4" x 5". 5 box(es) transparencies, negatives, prints, ephemera and papers. 4 b&w copy negative(s) 4"x 5". 4 digital print(s) 2 black and white, 2 coloured. 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 album(s). Physical Description: Film negatives, transparencies, photographic prints Processing information: The 2020 and 2023 accessions are awaiting processing.