A few weeks back I drove out on the Otago Peninsula. It is a lovely landscape and features in many NZ artworks e.g.
Florence And Harbour Cone (1974) by Robin White
Collection of the Christchurch Art Gallery
I was reminded of another Robyn and her project and “the idea of a travel guide from the 1968 being recontextualised in 2010″. I have really enjoyed Robyn’s posts on her journeys and was lucky enough to find a copy of the 1968 guide for myself for 50c.
The fascinating thing for me about this guide is the artwork. A travel guide, illustrated with paintings by Garth Tapper,Juliet Peter, Doris Lusk and Colin McCahon! Also photographs by Brian Brake and Marti Friedlander (amongst others)
The Otago section starts with a McCahon.
[Three Otago Landscapes: Cover design for The Shell Guide to New Zealand edited by Maurice Shadbolt], (1968) Colin McCahon
I love the idea around using these paintings, although I hope people didn’t take the artists’ interpretation of the landscape too literally.
Thank you! I’ve visited one of the locations represented in the art. The Auckland painting features a likeness of Molly McAllister’s Maori Warrior sculpture in Auckland. It’s still there, though in slightly different location.
These are such wonderful versions of the landscape, Pauline, especially florence and the Harbour cone. It’s an image that will stay with me.