Groundwork
The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
$48.00
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2025
Summary
A LUSCIOUS TRIBUTE TO AN EARLY NEW ZEALAND BOTANICAL ARTIST
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 re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781991072047 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 199107204X |
| Author: | Michele Leggott, Catherine Field-Dodgson |
| Publisher: | Te Papa Press |
| Imprint: | Te Papa Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.50kg |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 200mm |
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About The Author
Michele Leggott
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.
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