New Zealand Art Print News
Wellington Prints from Liz Kerr and Ernest Papps
There are more
Wellington prints than prints of any other city in New Zealand, and our collection of pictures of Wellington is the largest range in the country. It takes up quite a lot of space in our warehouse! However there was a noticeable gap for contemporary views of the city - the venerable and popular print "Summertime Wellington" by
Marianne Muggeridge is now nearly twenty years old. Anyone who lives or visits Wellington on a regular basis will have noticed some changes over this time! Wellingtonians love sending prints of their city to friends and family as gifts - perhaps because it looks so beautiful if you can't actually feel the wind that is probably blowing.
With this in mind we are delighted to have new modern prints of Wellington by artists like
Ernest Papps and
Liz Kerr in stock today.
Pictured here is Kerr's print of Wellington Harbour and Oriental Bay in summer.
Labels: Ernest Papps, Liz Kerr, Marianne Muggeridge, Wellington Prints
Steve Hikaiti - contemporary Maori artist releases new print
Steve Hikaiti released a new edition - called "Kia Kaha" - which translates from Maori as "Be Strong" in late 2009. Hikaiti has printed this contemporary
tiki print in a very small edition of just 40. Under half of the prints remaining (I am writing this in late January). Steve's first series of prints are also selling well so we are looking forward to his first completely sold out print within the next few weeks.
Labels: Contemporary Maori Art, prints, Steve Hikaiti
Sold out prints by NZ artists & publisher deletions
Keeping prints of paintings by NZ artists in print can be a juggle for art publishers and galleries because of the size of the New Zealand art market. Prints done in a tiny edition on a world scale can be in stock for years. It is only the very top percentage of sellers that get re-printed into a second edition. This means that although prints are technically "open edition" - in that they are not numbered and can be re-printed they are really a "limited edition" of between 300-1000 prints. This means that once a print sells out it is most often never available again.
Once a New Zealand print is deleted (sold out) that's usually it because the original plates used for printing the print are probably lost.
Christmas/New Year has seen New Zealand Fine Prints sell out of several prints from our
endangered prints gallery (the place where we list all editions that are about to sell out). Including one of the last Menzies kowhaiwhai panels from our
Maori art and design collection, a
Jane Evans print (only two prints left in stock of two different paintings by this popular Nelson artist) plus several
Matisse prints are no longer available.
Since I wrote this post a couple of days ago we have since sold out of a popular
Pasifika image from
Valerie Beale called Friendly Disagreement and after sending prints of a sketch by
Kathe Kollwitz that we happened to end up with all remaining stock when the US publisher deleted the image all over the world this edition has finally run out completely (we still have another deleted title from Kollwitz in stock). Like prints by
Graciela Rodo Boulanger it is an amusing quirk of the internet's reach that we are sending these prints back to where they were originally printed but are now unavailable.
Labels: art print publishing, Contemporary Maori Art, editions, Jane Evans, Matisse Prints, new zealand prints
New Zealand Fine Prints re-opens for 2010
We are all back in the office after the Xmas/New Year holiday. Thanks to our warehouse manager who popped in over the holidays to make sure that we could keep the orders shipping! I have a large pile of new prints to catalogue for 2010 plus lots of new New Zealand artists starting the process of getting prints listed with us.
Labels: new zealand prints, Xmas gifts
New Prints in Stock Today
After our busiest ever Xmas I have finally got some cataloging time to process some of the dozens of new prints that have arrived at our warehouse over the past few weeks. It has been all hands to the deck to get prints shipped around New Zealand and the world in time for Christmas day.
Summary of new prints added today.
Labels: Charles Ebbets, Dick Frizzell, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Keith Haring, posters, prints, tony ogle
Queen with Moko Print
One of our prints -
Queen with Moko by Barry Ross Smith has hit the national news via the Manawatu Standard's
article that has been picked up Stuff.co.nz - the main news website for Fairfax media. Over 60 comments on the article already - mostly positive so far. We'll see where this goes...
Labels: barry ross smith, Maori Art, prints, Queen with moko
Very special limited edition print from Otis Frizzell

After a much longer than expected journey from Wellington thanks to CourierPost I have finally been able to catalogue this morning a much anticipated
print from one of our favourite contemporary artists, Otis Frizzell. This large and colourful print is both an exciting visual treat and an opportunity to raise money for our disaster relief in Samoa following the devastating Tsunami early this year.
In October 2009 Otis Frizzell (pictured left) was commissioned to complete an artwork to capture the generosity and response of donors to the New Zealand Red Cross Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund with the encouragement of New Zealand’s online giving website Givealittle.co.nz
The large mural, entitled "God Bless Samoa", was created by Otis in the foyer of Wellington's Te Papa over four days with members of the public watching the progress unfold. The resulting 8m by 2m artwork will be gifted to the people of Samoa once a suitable home is found. To keep a slice of this unique work in New Zealand a very small run of limited edition prints are now available with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the New Zealand Red Cross Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund. New Zealand Fine Prints are also donating all credit card transaction fees to ensure that the Red Cross Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund gets the full amount from each sale.
Labels: Otis Frizzell, prints, Red Cross Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund, Samoa
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