​​​​​​​Barbara Strathdee​​​      Artist & Author 

  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

Somewhere in Our Historical Memory

- Blue  1994

1000x1200mm

acrylic on canvas

Private Collection

It Comes to Mind V  1995

600x1200mm 

acrylic on canvas

While Others Decide  1987

1920x150mm

acrylic on canvas

In the collection of Victoria University of Wellington

exhibited Adam Art Gallery, VUW, 2015