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Barbara Strathdee Artist & Author
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History
The imagery in the Somewhere In Our Historical Memory series includes wallpaper patterns and details from two different engravings: one by an anonymous artist working from a water colour by Charles Heaphy of the scene for the week-long meeting in 1853 between local iwi and the authorities from Auckland to discuss conditions for allowing the diggings on the Coromandel goldfields; the second of British soldiers carrying firewood on a stretcher near Petone.
All acrylics on canvas.
Meeting on the Beach 1988 (detail)
3520x1865mm
acrylic on canvas
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While Others Decide 1987
1920x150mm
acrylic on canvas
In the collection of Victoria University of Wellington
exhibited Adam Art Gallery, VUW, 2015
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It Comes to Mind V 1995
600x1200mm
acrylic on canvas
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Somewhere in Our Historical Memory
- Blue 1994
1000x1200mm
acrylic on canvas
Private Collection
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