O'Brien, Gregory, 1961-

Date: 1987-1991

From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6371-14

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; includes letter from Paul, Hamilton. Other correspondents identified and entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1 Mar 2001 - 01 Mar 2001

From: Recordings relating to National Library Gallery exhibitions, events and promotions

Reference: OHInt-0381-01

Description: A reading of William Blake's poetry by Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien. William Blake's "The Echoing Green" is a world of innocence, a landscape in spring and an echo-chamber of human voices. Held in association with the National Library Gallery's exhibition 'Burning Bright - the Visionary Art of William Blake 1757-1827'. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT10-0288 Quantity: 1 10" reel(s). 1 event(s). 40 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 2001

Date: 1 Aug 1996 - 01 Aug 1996

From: Recordings relating to National Library Gallery exhibitions, events and promotions

Reference: OHInt-0371-01

Description: Writers Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt read from their work and from 'My Heart Goes Swimming - New Zealand love poems', which they edited. Held in conjunction with the exhibition 'Behind the Printed Page: New Zealand writers' papers', featuring manuscripts and papers of some of New Zealand's most celebrated writers. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT10-0264 Quantity: 1 10" reel(s). 1 event(s). 46 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1996

Date: 1984

By: O'Brien, Gregory, 1961-

Reference: E-923-q

Description: A volume of drawings for the dance company Dance Works (operating 1983-1988), which included founding member Sue Healey, a New Zealand choreographer working in Melbourne. Some works are dated August and September 1984, and some have titles: eg Mulberry glove, Heildelberg, Tree and pond, A place, Drawing after J Arp's ambitious concretion, Star amphora, Scene in the garden, Duet for streetlamp & moon, Fountain at Elizabeth Bay, Soldiers in a swamp, Incident on Sydney Harbour, Parade, Study for a demolision [sic], Soldier fallen in a swamp, Swimming soldier, Shadow of a falling aviator. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound volume, 297 x 205 mm Provenance: Donated by Gregory O'Brien, Wellington, in 2008.

Date: 1997 - 2003

By: O'Brien, Brendan, 1959-

Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-OBrien

Description: Includes: Envelope for BAM Bookshop (Ooooh ... it smells like BAM mail) Quilter's Bookshop. Invitation to Oscar Wilde reading. 10 June [2000] Business card for Elizabeth Knox ("Elizabeth Knox / keeps her socks / in a pale pink chocolate box") Business card for Brendan O'Brien, printer, bookmaker (Fernbank Studio, Rita Angus Cottage, Sydney Street West, Wellington) Business card for Brendan O'Brien, Palais Waipapa, 26 Waipapa Road, Hataitai. Card for "Hallelujah anyway"; collages by Brendan O'Brien at BAM. 10-30 April 2000. Card for "All the roary night", Gregory O'Brien, Bowen Galleries. 15-27 November 1999. Card for "Away past elsewhere"; collages by Brendan O'Brien. Christopher Moore Gallery. 7-26 April 2003. Card for TARANAKI, Mount Egmont, mon enfant. Gregory O'Brien, Bowen Galleries. 24 March - 12 April, 1997. Quantity: 9 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, relief prints, sizes varying.

Date: 1990 - 2000 - 1986 - 1987

By: O'Brien, Gregory, 1961-

Reference: Eph-C-ARTS-OBrien

Description: Includes posters designed by Greg O'Brien for: A dance performance by Sue Healey & Dancers. "The long fall from splendour to splendour", with live music by Mike Nock. North Melbourne Town Hall, 10-12 October [1990?] Department of English Summer School programme. ENLG 336 - New Zealand literature. "The art of critical rebellion". [ca 2000?] [Book cover]. "Taking in the view", by Michael Morrissey. AUP [1986] (2 copies). "Spells from Chagall", by Riemke Ensing, 1987 [Book cover] Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and digital prints, sizes varying around 420 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by Greg O'Brien, Wellington, in 2004 and 2005.

Date: Feb 2004

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-060

Description: Further re Penguin History of New Zealand; funeral, memorial service and other papers re Janet Frame; Frame Literary Trust; other correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2003 - 2004

By: University of Otago

Reference: Eph-E-UNIVERSITY-Otago-2004-01

Description: Calendar which can be used on either side, as each has a full chart of the months of the year 2005. One side shows a reproduction of a Christopher Aubrey landscape, and the other side shows a fantasy illustration by Greg O'Brien. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of sheet, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hocken Library in 2012.

Date: 2013

By: O'Brien, Brendan, 1959-

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-2013-01

Description: Poster for an exhibition of printing from Brendan O'Brien's Fernbank Studio (Wellington), shows the printing device of a pointing hand, and several geometric shapes. The small print gives detail: the exhibition showed hand-printed books, broadsides and ephemera. The books were by Bill Manhire, Joanna Margaret Paul, Ralph Hotere, Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relif print and letterpress, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 2011 - 2012

Reference: Eph-A-ARTS-2012-Kermadec-Badges

Description: Badges include: Gregory O'Brien image with whales Photo of a crab John Pule image of a fish Elizabeth Thomson - 10000 (ocean waves) Red "Kermadec" badge with ship Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on circular metal badges, diameter 60 mm.

Date: 2010

By: Macleod, Euan, 1956-; O'Brien, Gregory, 1961-

Reference: A-443-021

Description: A tramping figure bent against a strong wind, with a walking stick, possibly representing an early Antarctic explorer such as Captain Robert Scott Loose print, forming part of volume Euan Macleod: the painter in the painting / Gregory O'Brien; with a foreword by John McDonald. Special ed. Dawes Point, NSW, Piper Press, c 2010. ATL call number q505664 Copy no 1 of a limited edition of 40 copies. Print numbered in pencil 1/40. Printed in black and blue. Paper has embossed bee symbol, lower right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - 1/40, bottom left; Tramp, bottom centre; MACLEOD, bottom right, all in pencil. Embossed bee symbol lower right Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching with aquatint, 214 x 153 (platemark) on sheet of handmade paper, 291 x 240 mm

Date: 10 Apr 1987

From: Stout Research Centre Oral Literary Archive

Reference: OHInt-0013-206

Description: Gregory O'Brien reads his poems at Unity Books, Wellington. He reads:- 'American Express poem' (from an earlier collection), 'Location of the least person', a short story 'Untitled', 'Justine', 'A Whangaparoa Marxist contemplates his cousins in early January', 'A Patriot of the time of day', 'Tokaiti', 'It will be better then', 'Mon Enfant', New poems:- 'The Camera is a small room', 'Number 1 & 2', 'Harry Moore's filling'. He also reads:- 'Old Man South Road' from 'Location of the least person', 'Old Man South 2, 4, 6 and 10' Venue - Wellington Recorded by - Ian Wedde Venue - Unity Books, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003452 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 29 June 2005, 16 September 2022

From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12895-031

Description: Includes six colour photographs taken by an unknown photographer. They are labelled “Moscow 2005” and show Ian Wedde, Tusiata Avia and Greg O’Brien as visiting poets at the New Zealand Embassy for readings, 29 June 2005. Also includes an annotated and dated file box listing by the donor from 2022. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally housed a file box labelled "Box 1 | Ian Wedde | "Ephemera…". The photographs were in an envelope. A box listing was enclosed. This file box was one of three an archive box that was couriered to the Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) including six colour photographs. Processing information: Material was removed from the file box and envelopes and split across four archival folders. The boxes and envelopes were not kept. Annotated post-it notes were removed from materials, and not retained. Photocopies of some of them are kept alongside the material.

Date: 1968, 1969, 1989-2021, 1986-2000

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12831-148

Description: Papers and correspondence between Seamus Heaney and C K Stead from November 1989 to December 1995. Related papers include clippings on Heaney's Nobel Prize for literature in 1995 and photocopies of Heaney's writings and lecture remarks. Correspondence from Gregory O'Brien to C K and Kay Stead between 1986 and March 2000. Includes illustrated booklets of poetry including two poems by Jenny Bornholdt which were printed and bound by Brendan O'Brien: 'The Way' in February 2000, and 'These Things', inked by Gregory O'Brien, in 2000. Also contains: - a letter from W H Auden to C K in April 1969; - a letter from Iris Murdoch to Karl in January [1968?]. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: The material was originally housed in a wallet folder enclosure. The enclosure was labelled with the following annotations: "Preserve this", "Seamus Heaney material", and "Also in here Letter from W H Auden & one from Iris Murdoch". Quantity: 1 folder(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: The original enclosure is at Library reference MS-Papers-12831-060.. Processing information: The original enclosure was removed and kept in a separate folder. Photographs were placed in photographic enclosures.

Date: [1987]

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: 90-041-14

Description: Correspondence, including newspaper clippings, programmes, invitations and related printed material; review by Kidman of Manguel's `Other fires, stories from the women of Latin America' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1984, 1986-1987

From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11624-071

Description: Comprises inwards correspondence dated 1984, 1986 and 1987. Some letters are undated. Names selectively indexed. Correspondence includes extracts of various poems, the poem 'Withywind' by Michele Leggott circa 1986, press release for 'Content/Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art' exhibition forum event, papers relating to 'Arts 2000: Building New Zealand's Cultural Future' conference 1986, greeting card by The Slug Press, and a photocopy of the book cover rough proof for 'Symmes Hole'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: Nov 2006, [nd]

From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11624-224

Description: Comprises papers relating to 'Landfall 213' which featured contemporary Russian poets in translation. Includes notes, a draft contents list, and essays by contributors (some with annotations). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss

Date: Aug 2006-Apr 2007

From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11624-223

Description: Comprises papers relating to 'Landfall 213' which featured contemporary Russian poets in translation. Includes print-out of email, first proof, newspaper clipping, and annotated print-out of the 'Russian plan' document. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss

Date: Aug 2006-Feb 2007

From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection

By: Linton, Barry, 1947-2018

Reference: MS-Papers-11624-225

Description: Comprises papers relating to 'Landfall 213' which featured contemporary Russian poets in translation. Includes print-outs of essays by contributors showing track changes by editor(s), print-outs of progress report and emails, notes, and print-out of webpage. Also includes print-out of emails relating to submissions for other issues of 'Landfall', and photocopies of posters and flyer for 'Red Mole Enterprises' shows in New Zealand and New York (features artwork by Barry Linton). Names selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss

Date: 11 December 2008-13 May 2009

From: Peter McLeavey Gallery: Records

Reference: Series-6503-498

Description: Exhibition dates: 29 March 2009 - 29 March 2009. Title taken from exhibition file enclosure. Arrangement: In sequence of numbered and labelled envelopes, generally in chronological order. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 9 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: During processing into archival housing, some formats were housed separately for reasons of preservation.