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<\/a>Riemke Ensing, William Dart, Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett<\/p><\/div>\n
In the photo taken by\u00a0 Don Abbott, I am\u00a0 with the ever delighting-in-life William Dart, editor of Art New Zealand<\/b>\u00a0 for whom I have written many articles over the years, and artist Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett, a founding member of\u00a0VAANA<\/b> ( See Paintings for Peace, Art New Zealand 39, Winter 1986<\/b>) and with whom I have also collaborated on art projects over the many years we have know each other since the early nineteen sixties.<\/p>\n
I interviewed her for\u00a0the Cultural Icons (No. 15)<\/b>\u00a0 series at The Depot Gallery, Devonport<\/b>. A prose piece entitled Face Up<\/b> , triggered by paintings from her oeuvre,\u00a0 appears in the Canadian publication\u00a0 Descant\u00a0 88, Spring 1995<\/b>. \u00a0 In response to Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett’s \u00a0 Tarawera Volcano Unmasked<\/b>\u00a0 paintings, I wrote a series of poems entitled Tarawera Te Maunga Tapu<\/b>. \u00a0 These were set and printed in a limited edition by Tara McLeod of the Pear Tree Press<\/b>, using part of one of Margaret’s\u00a0 drawings for the cover as well as her magnificent ruru woodcut to accompany the poem ‘Birds passing the\u00a0night.’ The poems had their first public reading at the absolutely crowded out launch of Margaret’s exhibition at Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga O Te Arawa, 18 September 19998.\u00a0 In 2003, Margaret initiated a visual response by 7 artists to my poem ‘Towards 14 Ways of looking at Pohutukawa’ . Entitled ‘Maungauika North Head Artists’ Project<\/b>, the exhibition was shown between February and March\u00a02004, at the restored North Head Summit Barracks, Devonport, Auckland, and formally opened by the then Prime Minister, Helen Clark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A large group of friends and supporters\u00a0 gathered at Artis Gallery on the evening of Tuesday 21 April 2015, to launch Nigel Brown’s exhibition Albatross Neck\u00a0 – a series of mostly large paintings\u00a0 built around Samuel Taylor\u00a0Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u00a0 (see catalogue by Denys Trussell). Nigel and I go back a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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