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Robin White I Something is Happening Here

edited by Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan & Nina Tonga

Te Papa Press, Wellington 2022

Hnndertzvasser in Nezv Zealand

by Andreas J. Hirsch Oratia Books, Auckland 2022

Māori Moving Image

edited by Melanie Oliver & Bridget Reweti

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch 2022

Proof: Two Decades of Printmaking

by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand

Massey University Press, Auckland 2022

A Book of Seeing

by Roger Horrocks Atuanui Press, Pōkeno 2022

By the time that | has finished its run (Te Papa, now; Auckland Art Gallery, over summer; later, according to the press release, ‘beyond' that) a good many people will be (re)acquainted with the artist's career. The show is so compelling that a good proportion of those visitors will be inspired to invest in the book of the same name at the gift shop on the way out, futureproofing their desire to relive their gallery experience, and ensuring the opportunity to reconnect with White and her work beyond the variable limits of memory.

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