BOOKED OUT | Audio-Described Tour for blind and low vision visitors | Modern Women: Flight of Time

Join us for an audio-described tour for blind and low-vision visitors through Modern Women: Flight of Time.

This exhibition highlights the leading role women artists have played in shaping the development of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand through seizing control of their own representation.

Led by the Gallery’s Curator New Zealand Art, Julia Waite, and audio described by Nicola Owen of Audio Described Aotearoa, this tour will last 90 minutes and is limited to 13 people.

Please book your place/s through the link below. If attending with a sighted companion, please book tickets for them also. Please note only one sighted companion per purchase.

The tour is limited to 13 places and we will have two sighted companions available courtesy of Blind Low Vision NZ.

Artwork credit: Pauline Yearbury Papa-tu-a-nuku (Earth Mother), circa 1960s, collection of Russell Museum donated by Judith Anderson, 2010. 

Image 1: Alt text Incised wood panel with rimu veneer, wood stain and paint 56.0cm high by 33.0cm wide. This image is of a mother holding her child to her chest, eyelids half closed as she looks down on the child with a neutral expression. It is centred in the middle of the board, a clear incised line drawing with solid colours for skin tone and hair. Both are naked, the child’s pale skin contrasting with the mother’s darker green and brown tones. The child has both arms raised towards the mother’s hair that flows out from the sides of her head shaped almost like two big rabbit ears. One foot is on the mother’s arm, the other is on the mother’s leg.

Image 2: Alt text Audio Describer Nicola Owen speaks through a transmitter to a group of blind people with white canes listening on headphones. Some stand, others sit, one feeling a touch piece.