Every month the museum receives generous offers of material to be added to it’s collections. New Old is a cross section of some of the historic photographs the museum has had donated over the last five years. We have made a selection to show the broad variety of images that have extended our already diverse collection.
Morphic Resonance is the collective memory influences of form and behaviour via nonlocal fields where individual minds tap into shared patterns. These fields provide blueprints not just of DNA but of mental fields – implying that consciousness isn’t just internal but extends into subtle interconnected fields of ‘patterns”. “I explore these fields within my consciousness... Read more »
This exhibition is the first showing of work that was made while I was resident at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) in November/December 2024. The residency allowed me time to consider the history of the British class system, of colonialism, of material, of human labour and mineral extraction, of capitalism, of solidarity and mutual aid,... Read more »
Weaving runs alongside my life, warp and weft, whenu and aho, the over and under and interlacing of life’s journey. Encompassing the inspirations, the challenges, the successes, the stumbling and the meditating on all of that. Harakeke, wool, cotton, wood and jute form the basis of my work, with the addition of the dye pot... Read more »
Ko wai tō tūrangawaewae? Jean McGreal discovered her passion for art at an early age, beginning lessons with a nun named Sister Ligouri in Auckland at the age of nine. After leaving Elam School of Art, Loomis was invited to teach art in the Catholic schools in Apia, Samoa, presenting an opportunity to experience Polynesian... Read more »
