Volunteers: Help to map New Zealand’s cultural identity
Are you interested in New Zealand’s creative community? What about cultural identity? Have you ever thought about what makes New Zealand the place it is, aside from it’s geographical location, sheep and rugby? We are looking for creative individuals or…
Artist and Cultural Icon Nigel Brown’s new website
Nigel Brown’s new website was recently launched. It is a comprehensive website which Nigel describes it as “making sense of it all…some forty years of painting and related activities and countless exhibitions”. The site is a visual feast. The hundreds…
Congratulations to designer, author and cultural mapper Michael Smythe!
We would like to congratulate Michael Smythe for receiving the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction with his book ‘New Zealand by Design‘. Michael is ‘one of the country’s best-known designers’ and has now…
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……
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…
“The cultural geography of Devonport”
An article from this weeks ‘The Devonport Flagstaff’ (a free local publication iconic in itself) about the project… If you click on the image above you will be able to view the picture close enough to read the article. Small…