Drawing on everything from census data to old photos, Richard immersed us in Wellington’s journey as Te Aro’s streets, buildings and people changed through time.
Read more |April 14, 2022
The Eyes Have It.
Read more |April 1, 2022
Travelling overseas and meeting the local artists is a crucial part of Shani Pillai and Joji Jacob’s working lives. Covid-19 put a sharp halt to that but enabled this energetic and enterprising couple to undertake ‘spurts of travel’, to parts of NZ they had never visited.
Read more |March 11, 2022
Members were treated to a very special evening in February for an exclusive floortalk and viewing of ‘Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings’ at the City Gallery. Caleb Gordon, Public Programme Specialist, provided an informative insight into the Hilma af Klint’s work. We came away with a sense of inspiration and awe at such an amazing woman who was well ahead of her time
Read more |February 24, 2022
David Alsop admits he has “lived and breathed” Ans Westra and her work for the last fifteen years. In his talk to the Friends he gave a fascinating account of this close personal and professional relationship
Read more |February 14, 2022
Richard Shaw tells us he loves his day job; research and writing in general and footnotes in particular -there are nearly 30 pages of them in his family memoir, The Forgotten Coast.
Read more |February 9, 2022
Melvin Day: A Modernist Perspective, is a survey show of the artist who lived in Seatoun for many years, and whose Wellington landscapes are familiar to many.
Read more |January 25, 2022
Judge Arthur Tomkins presented mystery, intrigue and surprises in his lecture about French Art Historian Rose Valland, heroine of the French Resistance, and the fight against art crime during war.
Read more |January 12, 2022
Indian hand-crafted textiles starting dying out when England started producing its own cotton cloth. However, a revival occurred in the 20th century.
Read more |November 25, 2021
A group of 22 members of the Friends of Te Papa travelled to Kaikoura for a five day trip, full of anticipation at the prospect of exploring some of the geology of the Kaikoura region
Read more |November 24, 2021
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