Thinking it through was originally published in Home and Building from 1988 to 1996 when Kirsty Robertson, then editor for “Home and Building” invited Tony Watkins, who had for many years been a contributor to the magazine, to begin a new column called simply, “Thinking it through”. She also invited Haruhiko Sameshima to contribute a photograph for each column. Haru had never met Tony. For each issue Tony sent an article to Haru and Haru replied with a photograph. Tony in turn responded to each photograph with another … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/thinking-it-through/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/colonial-goose http://www.rimbooks.com/colonial-goose#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:09:15 +0000 Rim Books http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=350
COLONIAL GOOSE
Pauline Bern

The idea of making do with what’s available is a fitting analogy for Pauline Bern’s jewellery practice. Bern has always utilised locally sourced materials that are connected to her in some way and worked to transform them into something new. In this instance, a selection of plants from her Devonport garden provided the primary material for the pieces in Colonial Goose.

Colonial Goose harks back to the early pioneering tradition in New Zealand of making do with what’s on hand. Owing to a scarcity of geese, the traditional English Christmas fare of … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/colonial-goose/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/river-road http://www.rimbooks.com/river-road#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:44:15 +0000 admin http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=297 RIVER/ROAD
JOURNEYS THROUGH ECOLOGY
David Cook – photographs
Wiremu Puke – text

Jonty Valentine – design

River/Road takes an intimate look at the environmental, cultural, historical and economic factors that shape the ecology of our immediate environment. The narrative explores regional ecology from a bicultural perspective.
The authors trace a journey, following the parallel arteries of the Waikato River and River Road. The emphasis is on being ‘readers’ of the landscape. The authors bring a number of distinct voices to the project

Jonty Valentine the graphic designer, provokes and navigates the reader through a multi-layered account … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/river-road/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/french-place http://www.rimbooks.com/french-place#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:27:47 +0000 admin http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=292 THE FRENCH PLACE IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS
Essays from Pompallier’s Printery

Edited by Kate Martin and Brad Mercer

The building, known today as Pompallier, is New Zealand’s sole surviving pioneer mission printery of
 any denomination. In 1841 printing presses and plant arrived from France at the Roman Catholic headquarters in Kororareka Russell. This impressive and elegant, two-storied French colonial building was completed in 1842 to house a print workshop and has been a landmark feature of the Bay of Islands ever since. . .

The seemingly disparate subjects presented in this book
by authors from such a … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/french-place/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/a-man-walks-out-of-a-bar http://www.rimbooks.com/a-man-walks-out-of-a-bar#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:10:53 +0000 admin http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=284 A MAN WALKS OUT OF A BAR…
Lucien Rizos: New Zealand Photographs 1979 –1982
Essays by Damian Skinner and Ian Wedde

‘These photographs come from a very specific time in New Zealand history’, says Rizos. ‘The New Zealand I lived through then may feel like a different planet to a younger generation now, people who did not live through the Muldoon era and the trauma of Rogernomics. But there are themes that bind the different periods together. Even though New Zealand may look very different now, I feel it is still fundamentally the same place that it … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/a-man-walks-out-of-a-bar/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/passing-world http://www.rimbooks.com/passing-world#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:50:08 +0000 admin http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=277 THE PASSING WORLD
THE PASSAGE OF LIFE: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai
Damian Skinner


Winner Illustrated Non Fiction – NZ Post Book Award 2011

Kōwhaiwhai, argues John Hovell, is about process, a shorthand summary of the passage of life, and a space within the whare whakairo (decorated meeting house) for the Māori artist to express his wry and droll view of human nature. It is, for coastal Ngāti Porou, an expression of an intimate relationship with the coastal environment and its resources, a lexicon of patterns created in the nineteenth century from close observation of … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/passing-world/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/sightseeing http://www.rimbooks.com/sightseeing#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:41:44 +0000 admin http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=271 SIGHTSEEING

Hanna Scott and
Ann Shelton ed.

This new publication heralds a distinctive and unusual format for an exhibition. The book, Sightseeing is a box set of 90 concertina folding postcards which unpacks to create an innovative touring photography exhibition

Project curator Hanna Scott describes the way in which, “the postcards literally become the exhibition, unsettling the way that we traditionally use postcards to venerate the landscape, because these sites are not typical tourist sites.”
She continues, “the project is important because it highlights the way that artists travel and make research. Their images … Continue reading →]]> http://www.rimbooks.com/sightseeing/feed 0 http://www.rimbooks.com/field-guide-to-camera-species http://www.rimbooks.com/field-guide-to-camera-species#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:20:52 +0000 admin http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/?p=266 A FIELD GUIDE TO CAMERA SPECIES
Darren Glass