Author Talk: Sight Lines: Women & Art in Aotearoa by Kirsty Baker

Join us in the shop to hear from Kirsty Baker about her recently published book, Sight Lines: Women & Art in Aotearoa, published by Auckland University Press.

Kirsty will be in conversation with Ioana Gordon-Smith, who is a contributor in the book. Ioana is the Lead Curator, Pātaka Art + Museum.

We can't wait to hear their conversation, hope to see you there.

All welcome!

Sight Lines: Women & Art in Aotearoa by Kirsty Baker

About the book:
From ancient whatu kākahu to contemporary installation art, Frances Hodgkins to Merata Mita, Fiona Clark to Mataaho Collective, Sight Lines tells the story of art made by women in Aotearoa.

Gathered here are painters, photographers, performers, sculptors, weavers, textile artists, poets and activists. They have worked individually, collaboratively and in collectives. They have defied restrictive definitions of what art should be and what it can do. Their stories and their work enable us to ask new questions of art history in Aotearoa. How have tangata whenua and tangata tiriti artists negotiated their relationships to each other, and to this place? How have women used their art-making to explore their relationships to land and water, family and community, politics and the nation?

With more than 150 striking images and essays by Chloe Cull, Ngarino Ellis, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, Lana Lopesi, Hanahiva Rose, Huhana Smith and Megan Tamati-Quennell alongside the author, Sight Lines is a bold new account of art-making in Aotearoa through 35 extraordinary women artists.