Christina Barton
Te Whanganui-a-Tara WellingtonAotearoa New Zealand
Latest:
- Excited to launch DOCUMENTS, a new publishing imprint dedicated to unearthing and reframing artist archives and critical texts on art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our first publication is due late 2026.
- Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021, Te Herenga Waka University Press and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2025, 400 pages. You can read reviews by Alex Bacon in Art New Zealand, no. 196, Summer 2025–26 , Hamish Coney in Aotearoa Review of Books, December 2025, and Ian Wedde in The Landfall Tauraka Review, February 2026. Listen to David Hill’s review on Radio New Zealand
- Read: “‘The Map of a Territory That is Not an Empire’: On the Work of Fiona Connor,” Current Art Magazine, no. 1, December 2025– April 2026, pp. 52–57.
- Visit Treadler’s website to view: “The Odour of Smoke,” on show between 12 December 2025 and 17 January 2026.
- Read my recollections of Ron Brownson and his stewardship of the E. H. McCormick Library where I worked between 1987 and 1990: “Remembering Ron,” The Ron Brownson Collection [pdf], Cordy’s, Auckland, 2025, pp. 18–21.