Exhibitions - Pictorial works

Date: March 2013 - 01 Mar 2013

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: OHColl-1073

Description: Talks by Paul Diamond, Roger Blackley, Vincent O'Malley, and Hamish Clayton given at the National Library of New Zealand in March 2013, as part of the 'Head and Shoulders: Portraits of Maori by Isaac Coates' exhibition in Turnbull Gallery, which ran from 21 January to 16 March 2013. The talks are in English and feature an opening mihimihi and introduction in Maori. The exhibition, Head and Shoulders: Portraits of Maori by Isaac Coates, was curated by Paul Diamond and ran at Turnbull Gallery from 21 January to 16 March 2013. It was the first time that the twenty-four portraits by Coates at the Alexander Turnbull Library had been exhibited together, more than 160 years after they were painted. Little is known about why Coates painted the portraits during the brief two-year period he lived in Nelson between 1843 and 1845. Most of the subjects in the portraits came from Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka-a-Maui, the top of the South Island, but figures from other tribal areas also feature in the portraits. Quantity: 4 digital sound recording(s). 4 event(s). Search dates: 2013

Date: 15 March 2013

From: Head and shoulders - Portraits of Maori by Isaac Coates: Recordings of Turnbull Gallery exhibition events programme

Reference: OHInt-1073-4

Description: Paul Diamond, Curator Maori at the Turnbull Library, speaks about curating the Head and Shoulders exhibition for the Turnbull Gallery, which is based around the Library's collection of 24 portraits of Maori by Isaac Coates. These works sit alongside around 85 other Coates portraits in collections worldwide. As part of his exhibition research, Paul has obtained digital copies of many of these portraits held in other institutions for researchers to be able to consult at Turnbull Library. Paul will show some of these images as part of his talk, highlighting the new understandings they bring to the portraits held in the Turnbull collections. Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 event(s). Search dates: 2013