Art Books


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

Art Books

Folk Syndrome
Cabin Fever Books
NZ$40.00
Local Time: Horotiu
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$5.00
Tangible/Intangible: The Sound of Sculpture
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$12.00
Ammon Ngakuru, Weather Paintings
Medium Duty
NZ$40.00
ATE Journal of Māori Art | Volume Two
ATE Press
NZ$20.00
Reason and Rhyme
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$10.00
As needed, as possible: Emerging discussions on art, labour and collaboration in Aotearoa
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$30.00
Te Puna Waiora: The Distinguished Weavers of Te Kāhui Whiritoi
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$60.00
Field Studies #10 - Cameron James McLaren
Bad News Books
NZ$10.00
Joyce Cambell: LA Botanical
Two Rooms
NZ$60.00
101 Works of Art
Christchurch Art Gallery
NZ$39.99
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
Look out, Fred!
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$25.00
Bruce Barber
Bruce Barber: Work 1970-2008
Te Tuhi
NZ$25.00
Bill Culbert: Slow Wonder
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$30.00
Elizabeth Rees
I Paint
ARTIS Gallery
NZ$85.00
Albatross Neck
ARTIS Gallery
NZ$90.00
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
An unreliable guidebook to jewellery by Lisa Walker
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$54.00
Wishing Well/Ma’u Pe Kai
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$25.00
Unstuck in Time
Te Tuhi
NZ$49.00
Volcanic Aotearoa New Zealand
Stephen Milner
NZ$70.00
Emil McAvoy
Soft Launch: An Exopoetics of the Crop Circle Phenomenon
PUFF PIECE x Bad News Books
NZ$55.00
Between Dog and Wolf - Jane Wilcox
Bad News Books
NZ$65.00
Walls to Live Beside
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$40.00
Territory Unknown
Simon L Wong & Chyna Lily
NZ$95.00
Mother Lode - Ann Shelton
Bad News Books
NZ$65.00
Endeavour - Anton Maurer
Bad News Books
NZ$75.00
Louise Henderson: From Life
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$65.00
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
Robin White: Something is Happening Here
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$70.00
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
Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
NZ$50.00
Gretchen Albrecht Colloquy: Three Essays
Two Rooms
NZ$90.00
Severe Tropical Storm 9301 Irma
Te Tuhi
NZ$40.00
20/20: words of wisdom – wayne youle (PDF)
Pātaka Art + Museum
NZ$0
Judy Darragh: Competitive Plastics: Essays
Objectspace
NZ$10.00
Louise Stevenson: Someplace Else
Te Tuhi
NZ$79.95
One and Many Mirrors: Perspectives on Graphic Design Education
The Physics Room
NZ$45.00
Gavin Hipkins: The Homely II
City Gallery Wellington
NZ$20.00
Documents On Contemporary Crafts 1-5
Objectspace
NZ$150.00
Alive: Kim Hak
Objectspace
NZ$30.00
Whenua Hou: New Māori Ceramics
Objectspace
NZ$20.00
Richard Parker: Master of Craft
Objectspace
NZ$40.00
Nanette Cameron: Interior Design Legend
Objectspace
NZ$40.00
Head[case]: Julia Morison
Objectspace
NZ$35.00
Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa
Objectspace
NZ$40.00
Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand: 40 Years of Fingers Jewellery Gallery
Objectspace
NZ$50.00
Queer Objects
Objectspace
NZ$50.00
Judy Millar: You You Me Me
Gow Langsford Gallery
NZ$59.95
Yuki Kihara: A Study of a Samoan Savage
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$10.00
Ché Zara Blomfield
The Composing Rooms 2010 - 2020
The Composing Rooms
NZ$35.00
THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS
Te Tuhi
NZ$29.00
John Parker: Cause and Effect
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$85.00
The Third Enjoy Five Year Retrospective Catalogue
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$20.00
Theo Schoon: A biography
Massey University Press
NZ$60.00
Fake Nostalgia
Bad News Books
NZ$79.00
Julian Dashper, This is not writing
Clouds
NZ$39.95
Ten x Ten: Art at Te Papa
Te Papa Press
NZ$45.00
Exhibition Catalogue: Jellicoe & Bledisloe by David Cook
New Zealand Portrait Gallery
NZ$50.00
Bruce Hunt
Tussock
Artis Gallery
NZ$65.00
News from the Sun
City Gallery Wellington
NZ$30.00
Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years Catalogue
City Gallery Wellington
NZ$52.00
Gordon Walters: New Vision
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$79.00
Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs
City Gallery Wellington
NZ$65.00
Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance
City Gallery Wellington
NZ$30.00
Fiona Clark: Living with AIDS (1988)
Michael Lett
NZ$85.00
Uneven Bodies (Reader)
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$32.00
The Near Future - Hannah Watkinson
Bad News Books
NZ$45.00
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
Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$65.00
Seung Yul Oh: MOAMOA
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$40.00
light switch and conduit
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$4.00
Jeffrey Harris: Renaissance Days
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$39.90
Kushana Bush: The Burning Hours
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$59.00
Joanna Margaret Paul
Imagined in the context of a room
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
NZ$65.00
‘Individual Happiness Now’ A Definition of Common Purpose
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$12.00
Anne Noble, Ice Blink
Clouds
NZ$49.95
iteration 10, portraits (free downloadable PDF publication)
mothermother
NZ$0
Through That Which Separates Us
The Physics Room
NZ$35.00
Wild Domain: The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery
The Dowse Art Museum
NZ$55.00
val smith: queer walk nap | A reflection by Alys Longley
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$0
The sea brought you here
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$25.00
Heart of Glass
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
NZ$25.00
Brokered Dreams: 98 Uses for Vacant Space
Urban Dream Brokerage
NZ$36.00
Next Spring: On Distance
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$20.00
‘Looking for a new country’ – Christopher Perkins in New Zealand
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$35.00
Ray Haydon Sculpture
Sanderson Contemporary
NZ$40.00
Railways Studios: How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand
Te Papa Press
NZ$70.00
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
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde
Massey University Press
NZ$45.00
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
What the Roof Dreamt | Denis O’Connor
Two Rooms
NZ$45
Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry
Massey University Press
NZ$80.00
High Wire
Massey University Press
NZ$45.00
Me, According to the History of Art
Massey University Press
NZ$65.00
Observations of a Rural Nurse
Massey University Press
NZ$55.00
Vonney Ball: Ceramics
Massey University Press
NZ$45.00
Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor
Massey University Press
NZ$79.99
Brian Brake: Lens on the World
Te Papa Press
NZ$99.99
New Zealand Art at Te Papa
Te Papa Press
NZ$75.00
Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer
Te Papa Press
NZ$64.99
Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing
Te Papa Press
NZ$75.00
Gretchen Albrecht: Journey to Portugal
Two Rooms
NZ$500.00
Gretchen Albrecht Colloquy: Three Essays (Limited Edition)
Two Rooms
NZ$2200.00
Gretchen Albrecht: Collages 1988 -1989
Two Rooms
NZ$20.00
Fiona Connor, +1 310 951 9459
June 20th
NZ$75.00
Swell: The Art of Judy Millar
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$49.00
Seung Yul Oh: HaaPoom
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$20.00
Janet Lilo: Status Update
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$40.00
Parallel Universe: The Art and Design of Roy Good
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
NZ$95.00
Fiona Admunsen: The Imperial Body
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$28.00
Ray Ching – Aesop’s Outback Fables
ARTIS Gallery
NZ$78.00
Edith Amituanai: Double Take
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
NZ$40.00
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
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
All Lines Converge: Some Lines Through the Archive
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$18.00
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
Sriwhana Spong: H
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
NZ$15.00
Co-Revolutionary Praxis: Accompaniment as a Strategy for Working Together
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$30.00
The Distance Plan #1
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$15.00
Fields: An itinerant inquiry across the Kingdom of Cambodia
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$20.00
Gavin Hipkins: Leisure Valley
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$20.00
Field Recordings
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$5.00
Gentle Foundations
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$20.00
Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch
St Paul St Gallery, AUT
NZ$15.00
Land Wars: The Reader
Te Tuhi
NZ$25.00
As You Will: Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific
Te Tuhi
NZ$50.00
Yona Lee: In Transit (Arrival)
Te Tuhi
NZ$20.00
Dream House Project
Te Tuhi
NZ$20.00
Gregor Kregar: Reflective Lullaby
Gow Langsford Gallery
NZ$59.00
Michael Hight: Crossing The Line
Gow Langsford Gallery
NZ$49.00
Allen Maddox
Gow Langsford Gallery
NZ$39.95

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