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July 13th, 2011 - 10:09 pm § in Uncategorized

singing in the lifeboat opens 10 August


A unique, limited edition pre-publication subscription series

It’s a girl’s scrapbook and I like scrapbooks. This book’s got meat in it “
Malcolm McNeil

Opening 10 August at Mark Hutchins Gallery,
216 /A Willis St,
Central Wellington, New Zealand
ph 64 4 3859300

An edition of 45 numbered books, each in a unique, painted canvas satchel made by Jane Zusters herself and selling for $300 including GST. Proceeds to finance publication of a general print run. Orders to Mark Hutchins Gallery.
This well illustrated publication is the first book to survey the work of artist Jane Zusters. Comprising a foreword and chronology by Grant Banbury, with essays by Bridie Lonie, Cushla Parekowhai and Andrew Paul Wood exploring Jane Zusters’ innovative, multilayered art practice. Often concerned with an the interplay of personal identity – the self, history, and place – Zusters’ interests as an artist position her within the ever-changing playing-field of gender politics, contemporary interpretations of historical events, as well as specific ecological and conservation issues.


May 6th, 2011 - 1:48 pm § in Uncategorized

earthquake art rescue in red zone Christchurch

Kia ora Just letting you know on tuesday I got my filbert brushes back. I went to help Rua Pick who had got a call as a result of registering for the Hamish Keith Lost Art Site and so we were assigned engineers and Civil Defence staff who were awesome. They got carried away helping [...][...]


April 6th, 2011 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized

elegy for my studio

I loved my studio at 84 Lichfield St. I was lucky enough to score it in 2008 when my friend Tiffany Thornley told me Anne-Marie Jean was leaving. It was like my old studio in Ponsonby from many years ago but at a Christchurch price I could afford. The High Street Project was next door [...][...]


February 27th, 2011 - 12:16 pm § in Uncategorized

art quakes

Caryline Boreham, Kevin Capon, Paul Hartigan and Jane Zusters – Found: Documenting person, place and object in contemporary photography 01 Mar to 13 Mar 2011 Sanderson Gallery 251 Parnell Road Auckland 1052 (09) 374 4476 opening march first the price of love the photo I took as I fell to the g[...]


January 12th, 2011 - 9:28 pm § in Uncategorized

coming up

The murray river matters/ Ramonda Te Maiharoa and Jane Zusters opening first april at the Newcastle University Gallery, GS Building, University Drive,Callaghan NSW 2308 blessing by AnneTe Maiharoa-Dodds image by Ramonda Te Maiharoa Recently Ramonda Te Maiharoa and Jane Zusters journeyed from the Mur[...]


October 17th, 2010 - 6:01 pm § in Uncategorized

painting workshop at Corban’s Estate

I am delighted to be be teaching a painting workshop at the Corban’s Estate, West Auckland 17 – 21 January (5 days) A Painting Voyage Fee: $420 (materials not included) to enrol phone 0064 9 8384455/ 09 8384455/ Corban Estate Arts Centre presenting an exciting line up of contemporary New Zea[...]


September 17th, 2010 - 12:32 am § in Uncategorized

Christchurch After Shocks

We have been so lucky that the quake happened in the middle of the night and so no one was killed downtown. Today I put up this selection of photographs I took during the course of my normal activities and in my neighbourhood starting with the local dairy on the day of the quake. The [...][...]