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9781991072047

Groundwork A Lucious Tribute to an Early New Zealand Botanical Artist

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  • ISBN13:

    9781991072047

  • ISBN10:

    199107204X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2025-04-10
  • Publisher: Te Papa Press
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Summary

Part inspired creative endeavour and part determined detective work, this long overdue book brings to light one of New Zealand’s most significant botanical artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Just as Emily Harris’s beautiful paintings occupy a liminal space between scientific botanical illustration and art, so this book occupies a shifting ground between biography and imagineered monograph. The result is often moving and always intriguing. Importantly, it restores to Aotearoa art history a figure who had almost disappeared. Emily Harris has been examined alongside her artist peers Sarah Featon and Georgina Hetley, but until this book neither her distinctive voice nor her almost 200 surviving images have been heard or seen in any quantity outside of archival or online spaces. Her life story is remarkable and her diaries, letters, poems and paintings constitute a fascinating legacy. In Groundwork, with its compelling text, they are lovingly brought together for the first time. 

Author Biography

Michele Leggott is a poet and editor with a consuming interest in archives and the poetics of memory. She has published 11 collections of poetry and was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007– 9. Her archival work spans anthologies, critical editions and web projects that address New Zealand and Modernist American poetry. She received the Prime Minister’ s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. In 2017 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Catherine Field-Dodgson (Rongowhakaata, Ngai Tamanuhiri, Te Aitanga a Mahaki) is the author of a 2003 Master’ s thesis that included the first detailed study of Emily Harris’ s exhibiting practices. She is active in community and environmental organisations and a beginner learner of te reo Maori. She is currently researching her great-great-grandmother Keita Halbert/Wyllie/Gannon and her connections to Turanganui-a-Kiwa.

Table of Contents

Finding Emily: a prologue 01. The fine girl 02. Mapping and painting 03. Aunt Emma 04. The lighted windows 05. The active verb 06. Holbrook Place 07. 34 Nile Street 08. The missing work 09. Flowers, Berries and Ferns 10. The family exhibitions 11. Mountain Flora 12. Subantarctic flowers 13. Scientific gentlemen 14. The mega-paintings of 1906 15. Caves, eclipses and comets 16. Moores and Weyergangs Scouting: an epilogue Emily Harris exhibitions Text references Bibliography Acknowledgements About the authors Index

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