Back in the late seventies and
early eighties we went round the country in our holiday breaks interviewing
artists for the book Contemporary New Zealand painters. The photographs had
already been taken by Marti Friedlander who had been committed to recording NZ
artists for many, many years but we also took the odd pic ourselves. And it’s
something we’ve kept up over the years.
Rather than have our photos lying around in files
we’re now going to make them available to anyone who wants to use them. Just
add our credit line and we can follow up with bigger files if anyone wants them
in the future. We’ll get in touch with the artists first of course and
eventually put as many as we can up on Flickr. In the meantime we’ll give you a
taste from time to time.
These first two shots were taken in Toss Woollaston’s
Riwaka studio in 1980. Our son Pippin was about eight months old and was put to
work cleaning studio floors while we talked with the artists.
Image: M. T. Woollaston 1980. Photo: Jim Barr and
Mary Barr
