Christina Barton

Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Aotearoa New Zealand

Latest:

Due out in October 2025, 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.
Read my commentary on art fairs in Aotearoa New Zealand: “Accruing Value” [pdf], Art News Aotearoa, no 205, Autumn 2025, pp. 52–57
“The Task of Painting: Beyond Buying and Selling the Dream” in Simon Denny: Landscapes (Sorry Press, 2024)

“Terra Informis – Known Ground”, a short text I wrote in 1989 for Gregory Burke’s Imposing Narratives exhibition catalogue has been reprinted in Photosynthesisers: Women and the Lens: Reader, edited by James Gatt, Te Uru Waitākarere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2025, pp. 43–44