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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy - original artwork Lynley Dodd (1985)

Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective

6 April - 9 June, 2013
Level 2 Space, Puke Ariki

 

A showcase of the life works of the creator of everyone's favourite pooch, Hairy Maclary.

 

 

 

 

 

Bernadette & Terry Hikaka, Wedding (29 August 1964) Bernard Woods Studio (WD.060718)

Photographic Memory:           Swainson/Woods Collection

13 April – 28 July 2013

 

Swainson’s Studios and Bernard Woods Studio took photographs of Taranaki people. Individually these images capture 110,000 unique moments in time. Collectively they offer a snapshot of Taranaki life spanning eight decades.

 

 

 

Paul Braddon The Old Curiosity Shop, Lincoln’s Inn [The Old Curiosity Shop] “The Old Curiosity Shop”, Lincoln’s Inn, London. This old block of buildings like so many of Dickens’ haunts, has been swept away. Watercolour on paper. Collection Dunedin Public Library

Haunts Of Dickens

20 April – 30 June 2013

Haunts of Dickens features a series of watercolours by British artist Paul Braddon (1864-1937) depicting scenes from Charles Dickens’ novels including The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Great Expectations as well as the unfinished Edwin Drood.

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New Plymouth Brass Band Conductor's Full Score [book], 1898 (ARC2012-136).

Etched In Brass

15 June - 25 August 2013

 

The early Brass Bands from the newly industrialised towns of Northern England and those of Aotearoa today may be separated by thousands of miles and more than a century, but they share the central ethos - music for the people. Etched in Brass traces the stories of this vibrant movement – its music, its people, and the social situations from which it was born.