Join Assistant Curator Emma Jameson to look at the influence of classical mythology and the imagined past on Frederic Leighton’s illustrations for George Eliot’s novel Romola.
Join Dr Peter Gilderdale, Acting HOD of Communication Design at AUT, for an illustrated overview of 19th century illustration, with a particular focus on the contextual, conceptual and craft-related issues that shaped illustration’s complicated relationship with art.
English artist David Hockney, using his experiences from a trip to Beirut in 1966, started a series of simple etchings to illustrate the homoerotic poems by the Alexandria born, Greek poet, CP Cavafy. Join artist, printmaker and art educator Steve Lovett for his response to this now iconic body of work by Hockney.
Join Assistant Curator Emma Jameson for a tour of her new exhibition An Overture to the Text which provides an in-depth investigation into a series of illustrations, analysing their visual features and what these communicate.
AUT Universty Senior Lecturer Miriam Harris places the illustrations of the great 19th century French political commentator, Honoré Daumier in context with the work of other caricaturists.
The moving tribute and 2009 television documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak was directed by Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs, and combines photos, illustrations and interviews to give an intimate glimpse into the beloved children’s author.
Painting conservator, Genevieve Silvester gives an illustrated talk on a special Frances Hodgkins painting restoration project that she undertook as part of her recent internship at Auckland Art Gallery.
Auckland Festival of Photography presents an illustrated talk by Malaysian born, London based freelance photographer Steven V-L Lee who began his began his photographic career as a documentary and travel photographer in the late 1990s.
New Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator and tā moko artist Rangi Kipa (Taranaki, Te Atiawa Nui Tonu, Ngāti Maniapoto) will demonstrate the art of Māori tattoo or tā moko.
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