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Unstable Ground: Migrant Producers, Selling, and Discrimination in Auckland 1890-1920s

Unstable Ground: Migrant Producers, Selling, and Discrimination in Auckland 1890-1920s

by Emily O’Callaghan*
Beginning a narrative part way through makes for a confusing story. Yet, recollections of Auckland’s horticultural histories often do exactly that. Prioritising the quaint Victorian garden and divorcing horticultural practice from other intersecting histories of war, of survival, and of immigration, has made for an incomplete retelling.

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Auckland’s Women Artists: 1980s

Part Four Auckland’s Women Artists: 1980sPart One Auckland’s Women Artists: 1928-1940Part Two Auckland’s Women Artists: 1950-1960  Part Three Auckland’s Women Artists: 1970s  by Katryn Baker* In the last few years, more and more women have been writing on...

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Auckland’s Women Artists: 1970s

Part Three Auckland’s Women Artists: 1970s Part One Auckland’s Women Artists: 1928-1940Part Two Auckland’s Women Artists: 1950-1960  Part Four Auckland’s Women Artists: 1980s  by Katryn Baker* A big factor of women artists is the sociological factors which...

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Auckland’s Women Artists: 1950-1960

Part Two Auckland’s Women Artists: 1950-1960 Part One Auckland’s Women Artists: 1928-1940Part Three Auckland’s Women Artists: 1970s  Part Four Auckland’s Women Artists: 1980s  by Katryn Baker* In tracing the lives and careers of (these) women, it shows that...

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Auckland’s Women Artists: 1928-1940

Auckland’s Women Artists: 1928-1940

by Katryn Baker*
The positionality of women artists in the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland art scene from just over a century ago is complex. By the close of the 1920s, women were certainly not excluded from published literature nor from exhibition spaces. However, the trend of the twentieth century tended toward situating men such as John Weeks or Colin McCahon, to be the drivers of art history in Auckland, often at the expense of marginalising the influence of women artists.

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From Triumph to Tragedy: Crown Lynn’s Decline

Part Four From Triumph to Tragedy: Crown Lynn’s DeclinePart One Forged in Fire: The War Effort and Sudden SuccessPart Two Humble Beginnings in HobsonvillePart Three The Golden Years: A New Era of Anglo-Kiwiana  by Benjamin Agnew* Crown Lynn, once a household...

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The Golden Years: A New Era of Anglo-Kiwiana

Part Three The Golden Years: A New Era of Anglo-KiwianaPart One Forged in Fire: The War Effort and Sudden SuccessPart Two Humble Beginnings in HobsonvillePart Four From Triumph to Tragedy: Crown Lynn's Decline  by Benjamin Agnew* The 1960s represented a...

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Humble Beginnings in Hobsonville

Part Two Humble Beginnings in HobsonvillePart One Forged in Fire: The War Effort and Sudden SuccessPart Three The Golden Years: A New Era of Anglo-Kiwiana  Part Four From Triumph to Tragedy: Crown Lynn's Decline  by Benjamin Agnew* Crown Lynn Potteries Ltd....

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Forged in Fire: The War Effort and Sudden Success

Forged in Fire: The War Effort and Sudden Success

by Benjamin Agnew*
The story of Crown Lynn begins as one of classic New Zealand innovation. Its trajectory throughout the 1940s is characterised by aspiration and enterprise, as well as a connection to foreign affairs that would last the company’s lifetime.

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