Vote for your favourite logo design by artist Nigel Brown for The Depot’s Museum of the Vernacular
What better way to represent the Museum of the Vernacular than with an original hand-drawn logo by iconic New Zealand artist Nigel Brown?!!! Nigel has supplied the 13 design concepts above for the logo (thank you Nigel!) and you can…
Two Thousand Cranes!
Thanks to Jill Greer our Vernacular Lounge is now bursting with not one, but two thousand peace cranes. Jill visited The Depot with Burtha, her combi van to deliver the peace Senbazuru (one thousand paper cranes attached on strings), complementing…
Nigel Brown and the Museum of the Vernacular
Coinciding with the Cultural Mapping Project exhibition ‘Sum of the Parts’ in August is the launch of the Museum of the Vernacular. When we began considering what the logo might be for such a place we thought of the painterly…
Brief for submissions for the Museum of the Vernacular introductory exhibition
We are looking for artworks that explore how you identify with New Zealand or New Zealand’s cultural identity to exhibit at the Museum of the Vernacular. Read more to find out how you can submit your work for immediate exhibition……
A visit to Margaret Lawlor Bartlett’s
On Thursday last week peace activist Ruth Coombes, Linda Blincko, Ruby Watson and I met with Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett at her home studio to discuss her involvement in the peace movement and the many ways in which we can explore what…
New in the Vernacular Lounge
Last week was another busy week for The Cultural Mapping Project here at The Depot HQ. The latest cultural mapping team member Ruby Watson had her first day on Thursday (see previous post) and we added two new installations to…
Peace Out
Kia Ora, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, Ruby Watson, to you. I am the new curatorial assistant at the Depot Artspace. I am really looking forward to working on the Cultural Mapping project, with my…