Art Books


A curated selection of some of New Zealand’s latest and best art books

Art Books

Roman Mitch
Roman Mitch: Red Teddy
Te Tuhi
NZ$10
Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book
Te Tuhi
NZ$77.50
Snacks
Te Tuhi
NZ$25
Ka Mua, Ka Muri. Looking Back, Moving Forward: 25 Years of Pātaka
Pātaka Art + Museum
NZ$50 inc GST
Barbara Tuck: Delirium Crossing
Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
NZ$40
Energy Work: Kathy Barry / Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
NZ$50
Gretchen Albrecht
Liquid States
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$60
Ana Iti
What is that salty voice?
The Physics Room
NZ$40
Kristin Stephenson (Hollis)
TRACK
Jonathan Smart Gallery
NZ$25
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O’Reilly
Te Papa Press
NZ$65
A Man Holds a Fish
Te Papa Press
NZ$75
Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer
Te Papa Press
NZ$70
Hand Book
Art Makers Aotearoa
NZ$Free
Emily Hartley-Skudder
Splash Club
Jhana Millers Gallery
NZ$34.99
Sport 19: Lightworks
Fox Jensen McCrory
NZ$45.00
Bill Culbert: Light Wine Things
Fox Jensen McCrory
NZ$65
Te Tohunga Auaha: Fred Graham Creator of Forms

NZ$55
Brett Graham
Brett Graham: Tai Moana Tai Tangata
Govett-Brewster Shop
NZ$65
Mai Te Whenua of the Land
The Toi Māori Store
NZ$15
Tā Moko: Māori Markings
The Toi Māori Store
NZ$50
Māori Art - The Photography of Brian Brake
The Toi Māori Store
NZ$50
Te Ringa Rehe - The Legacy of Emily Schuster
The Toi Māori Store
NZ$20
Te Atinga - 25 Years of Contemporary Māori Art
The Toi Māori Store
NZ$10
Stella Brennan
Thread Between Darkness & Light
Rim Books
NZ$50
Gordon Walters: New Vision
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$79.00
Bill Culbert: Making Light Work
Fox Jensen McCrory
NZ$90.00
Hana Pera Aoake
A bathful of kawakawa and hot water
Compound Press
NZ$30
Schaeffer Lemalu
the prism and the rose and the late poems
Compound Press
NZ$30
Fiona Clark: Living with AIDS (1988)
Michael Lett
NZ$85.00
Vital Machinery
Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery
NZ$38
Hannah Beehre
Drawing in Flow: A Handbook
objectspace.org.nz
NZ$40
David Straight
Locations of Interest
objectspace.org.nz
NZ$40
The Chair: A story of design and making in Aotearoa
objectspace.org.nz
NZ$45
Harry Culy
Mirror City
Jhana Millers
NZ$60
Kāryn Taylor
Future Philosophies
Jhana Millers
NZ$25
Ayesha Green
Folk Nationalism and other stories
Jhana Millers
NZ$30
Simon Morris
Room of time
Jhana Millers
NZ$40
Denys Watkins
Dynamo Hum
Jhana Millers
NZ$80.00
Set Dressing
Set Dressing
NZ$$40
Len Lye
Stopped Short: Writings on Len Lye 1977-2017
Buy Now
NZ$$40.00
Whetūrangitia / Made As Stars
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
NZ$55
Head[case]: Julia Morison
Objectspace
NZ$35.00
Ed Ritchie
Private wells

NZ$25
Ann Shelton
worm, root, wort... & bane

NZ$48
101 Works of Art
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$39.99
Louise Stevenson: Someplace Else
Te Tuhi
NZ$79.95
Marilyn Webb: Folded in the Hills
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$69.00
Ché Zara Blomfield
The Composing Rooms 2010 - 2020
The Composing Rooms
NZ$35.00
The moon and the pavement
The Physics Room
NZ$15.00
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere
Massey University Press
NZ$75
The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble
Massey University Press
NZ$65
Robin White: Something is Happening Here
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$70.00
Andrea Hotere
The Vanishing Point
BookHub
NZ$38
Liam Jacobson
Neither
Dead Bird Books
NZ$30.00
Turumeke Harrington: He pito mata, I’m ENERGETIC!
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
NZ$2.00
She Shed: Contemporary Wool Craft
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
NZ$2.00
Suji Park: Noise Collector
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
NZ$2.00
Gavin Hipkins: The Domain
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
NZ$45
Peter Peryer: A Careful Eye
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
NZ$10
Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community
GLORIA Books
NZ$38.00
Whenua Hou: New Māori Ceramics
Objectspace
NZ$20.00
Seung Yul Oh: MOAMOA
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$40.00
Exhibition Catalogue: Jellicoe & Bledisloe by David Cook
New Zealand Portrait Gallery
NZ$50.00
Bill Culbert: Slow Wonder
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$30.00
The Collection | Te Kohinga
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$45.00
Te Puna Waiora: The Distinguished Weavers of Te Kāhui Whiritoi
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$60.00
Māori Moving Image
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$34.90
Cheryl Lucas: Shaped by Schist and Scoria
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$30.00
Lockdown: Tales from Aotearoa
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$20.00
Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Sky
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$70.00
Louise Henderson: From Life
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$65.00
Bruce Barber
Bruce Barber: Work 1970-2008
Te Tuhi
NZ$25.00
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$65.00
Heavy trees, arms and legs
The Physics Room
NZ$35.00
Imogen Taylor
Michael Lett
NZ$60.00
Volcanic Aotearoa New Zealand
Stephen Milner
NZ$70.00
Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$40.00
Territory Unknown
Bad News Books
NZ$95.00
Mother Lode - Ann Shelton
Bad News Books
NZ$65.00
Endeavour - Anton Maurer
Bad News Books
NZ$75.00
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$75.00
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Māori Portraits
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$60.00
McCahon: Country
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$75.00
Manpower: Myths of Masculinity
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$30.00
Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$50.00
Judy Darragh: Competitive Plastics: Essays
Objectspace
NZ$10.00
Alive: Kim Hak
Objectspace
NZ$30.00
Richard Parker: Master of Craft
Objectspace
NZ$40.00
Nanette Cameron: Interior Design Legend
Objectspace
NZ$40.00
Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa
Objectspace
NZ$40.00
Anne Noble: States of Grace
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$59.95
Ronnie van Hout: I've Abandoned Me
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$25.00
Frances Hodgkins: Femme du Monde
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$60.00
Jeffrey Harris: Renaissance Days
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$39.90
Joanna Margaret Paul
Imagined in the context of a room
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$65.00
Little Doomsdays
Bowen Galleries
NZ$45
The sea brought you here
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$25.00
John Parker: Cause and Effect
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$85.00
Ans Westra
Ans Westra: A life in photography
{Suite} Gallery
NZ$49.99
On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$70.00
An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$12.00
Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT
NZ$15.00
Ray Haydon: Sculpture
Sanderson Contemporary
NZ$40.00
All Lines Converge: Some Lines Through the Archive
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$18.00
Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor
Massey University Press
NZ$79.99
Edith Amituanai: Double Take
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$40.00
Co-Revolutionary Praxis: Accompaniment as a Strategy for Working Together
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT
NZ$30.00
Brokered Dreams: 98 Uses for Vacant Space
Urban Dream Brokerage
NZ$36.00
Observations of a Rural Nurse
Massey University Press
NZ$55.00
Tatau: Sāmoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture
Te Papa Press
NZ$75.00
Reuben Paterson
City Gallery Wellington
NZ$110
Michael Lett: Documents 2021 - 2023
Michael Lett
NZ$60
Sriwhana Spong: H
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$15.00
Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti
Massey University Press
NZ$70
Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World
Te Papa Press
NZ$80
Don Binney
Drawing the Waitakere Coast
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$25
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists
Te Papa Press
NZ$70
ATE Journal of Māori Art | Volume Three
ATE Press
NZ$23.00
iteration 10, portraits (free downloadable PDF publication)
mothermother
NZ$0
Anne Noble, Ice Blink
Clouds
NZ$49.95
Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020
Massey University Press
NZ$65
Reason and Rhyme
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT
NZ$10.00
ATE Journal of Māori Art | Volume Two
ATE Press
NZ$23.00
Field Recordings
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT
NZ$5.00
Fields: An itinerant inquiry across the Kingdom of Cambodia
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT
NZ$20.00
Wild Domain: The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery
The Dowse Art Museum
NZ$55.00
Next Spring: On Distance
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$20.00
Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry — Revised Edition
Massey University Press
NZ$85
Anne Noble
Conversātiō — In the company of bees
Massey University Press
NZ$60
Len Lye
Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book
Massey University Press
NZ$35
Artists in Antarctica
Massey University Press
NZ$80
The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Massey University Press
NZ$75
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde
Massey University Press
NZ$45.00
Through Shaded Glass: Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960
Te Papa Press
NZ$75.00
Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life [Revised Edition]
Te Papa Press
NZ$60.00
The Near Future - Hannah Watkinson
Bad News Books
NZ$45.00
Land Wars: The Reader
Te Tuhi
NZ$25.00
Dream House Project
Te Tuhi
NZ$20.00
Local Time: Horotiu
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT
NZ$5.00
Tangible/Intangible: The Sound of Sculpture
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$12.00
As needed, as possible: Emerging discussions on art, labour and collaboration in Aotearoa
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$30.00
Wishing Well/Ma’u Pe Kai
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$25.00
Unstuck in Time
Te Tuhi
NZ$49.00
Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania
Te Papa Press
NZ$85.00
Finding Frances Hodgkins
Massey University Press
NZ$45.00
Severe Tropical Storm 9301 Irma
Te Tuhi
NZ$40.00
THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS
Te Tuhi
NZ$29.00
Theo Schoon: A biography
Massey University Press
NZ$60.00
Julian Dashper, This is not writing
Clouds
NZ$39.95
Uneven Bodies (Reader)
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$32.00
‘Individual Happiness Now’ A Definition of Common Purpose
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$12.00
‘Looking for a new country’ – Christopher Perkins in New Zealand
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$35.00
Endless Sea: Stories told through the taonga of the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa
Massey University Press
NZ$70.00
Nature—Stilled
Te Papa Press
NZ$70.00
Ngātahi presents the Judy Millar book collection
Te Tuhi
NZ$0
Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel
National Gallery of Canada
NZ$45.80
Anne Noble, The Last Road
Clouds
NZ$49.95
Jim Allen, The Skin of Years
Clouds
NZ$49.95
Kate Newby, Incredible Feeling
Clouds
NZ$35
High Wire
Massey University Press
NZ$45.00
Me, According to the History of Art
Massey University Press
NZ$65.00
New Zealand Art at Te Papa
Te Papa Press
NZ$75.00
Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing
Te Papa Press
NZ$75.00
Fiona Connor, +1 310 951 9459
June 20th
NZ$75.00
David Clegg: loca projects / correction
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$20.00
EASIER: Tao Wells
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$10.00
EMANATIONS: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$50.00
Set in Motion
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$28.00
Sister Corita’s Summer of Love
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$10.00
Gavin Hipkins: Leisure Valley
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery | AUT
NZ$20.00
As You Will: Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific
Te Tuhi
NZ$50.00
Yona Lee: In Transit (Arrival)
Te Tuhi
NZ$20.00

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