Flows Like Water is a celebration of the art-sci practice of Pam McKinlay, weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator. 

The book shines a light on her career as an artist first taking part in the Art+Science project through to her leadership of the project from 2018 onwards. This lavishly illustrated collection is an account of projects that she has made, curated, or been involved in, or all three. In Flows Like Water, you will find a deep account of the kinds of discoveries one can make by bringing together artistic and scientific method in such a way that each approach speaks equally.

About the Author

Pam McKinlay (Tangata Tiriti) has a background in applied science and history of art. As an artist she works in collaboration with other artists locally and nationally, in community outreach and education projects around the theme of climate change, sustainability and biodiversity. Her practice is concerned with the connections between new ideas and deep knowledge – the process and practice of making and the process and practice of connecting with the communities in which she lives. She is the convenor and curator of the Art+Science project based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand.

McKinlay has exhibited regularly in the Art+Science Project and touring exhibitions as well as New Zealand (Int.) Science Festival and New Zealand Festival of Naure. She has been shortlisted twice as a finalist in the New Zealand Textile Arts Awards 2023 and 2024. Her writing has appeared in Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art&Design), Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, Down in Edin, Sociological Research Online and a chapter in press in Craft- the Hand of the Creator, Celebration and Revival (Springer). 

This book was wholly created, printed and hand bound in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Flows Like Water, is a catalogue raisonne for an upcoming touring exhibition.

Publication details

Limited Editions in Hardback, 220 x 270mm

Collector's Book Edition limited edition 8 copies
Hand bound limited edition, with custom printed book cloth cover, hand made daphne-wood end papers plus set of custom art pamphlets.
$500.00 (NZ) + P&P tba (Postage only in NZ) 

4 of 8 copies remaining in stock

 
Exhibition Edition
Hand bound edition, with Verona book cloth cover and dust jacket.
Thank you for your support. The first print run sold out and we currently have 4 copies remaining from the second print run. Unfortunately prices have risen in the mean time.
$220.00 (NZ) + P&P tba (Postage only in NZ, price est. $17.00 economy)   

4 copies currently in stock

AVAILABLE: 23 July, 2024

ISBN 978-0-473-70729-3
346 pages: Colour Illustrations
Contact:  pamphlaterrepress   at   gmail.com

Neil Grant: Master Potter, with text by art historian Peter Stupples, shines a light on the development of Neil Grant’s skill and artistry with clay and fire, and his legacy as an art educator. 

Master Potter, is a celebration of Neil Grant’s sixty-year career as a ceramic artist spanning the years from the flowering of domestic rustic pots to large sculptural ceramics and major architectural commissions. He is well known for his distinctive reworking of traditional Shino Japanese pottery into a fusion of Anglo-Oriental forms but recreating them in new and exciting ways. 

The book was launched at an event hosted by Dunedin (UNESCO) City of Literature, on 20 October 2021. Its release coincided with a survey exhibition of Grant’s ceramic works curated by Rob Cloughley, Neil Grant and Pam McKinlay. The exhibition was timed to overlap with the diamond jubilee of the New Zealand Society of Potters, of which Neil was a founding and lifetime member.

Neil Grant: Master Potter is a significant contribution to the art history of Aotearoa New Zealand, covering 60 years not only of Neil’s career, but developments in the wider community of studio pottery and ceramics art education in New Zealand. 

Neil Grant: Master Potter is the collective effort of Peter Stupples (author), Thomas Lord (studio photography), Joanna Wernham (book design) and Pam McKinlay (researcher and publisher). 

Postscript - Sadly Neil died this year on May 7, 2024.

About the author

Peter Stupples is a social historian of art and specialist in the Russian avant-garde. He has taught at the University of York in the United Kingdom, at the University of Otago and the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic. At the Dunedin School of Art he was responsible for the Distance Programme in Art History and Theory for the Diploma in Ceramic Arts where he was a colleague of Neil Grant’s. 

Awards
Neil Grant: Master Potter, is a monograph and catalogue for a survey exhibition of the same name.

The book was awarded an Excellence in Research Award in 2022 and when published was part of the NZ living biography project. 

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ISBN 9780473552077 Limited Edition paperback [FIVE COPIES REMAINING]

ISBN 9780473552084 Limited Edition hardback [OUT OF PRINT]

138 pages : illustrations (some colour)

235mm x 280mm

AVAILABLE: October 2021

$90.00 (NZ) + P&P (Postage only in NZ) 

5 of 90 copies remaining.

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The Insp-AIR-ation ArtScience project was a grass-roots arts project which focused on community perceptions of air quality in art workshops which illustrated their hopes, values and aspirations. This booklet shares the kaupapa of the project and documents the outcomes from all the participants.

Our World is in our breath. We are air-born. We can last three weeks without food, 3-4 days without water, but mere minutes without air. In Te Ao Māori, hau is the breath or wind of life. Air/breath/wind is the nebulous thing that connects all living beings. Anne Salmond, in Tears of Rangi, describes air as flowing in an endless cycle, nurturing, sustaining and transforming all whom it touches. We share breath with anything and everything that ever lived. (As humans, we breathe and rebreathe the same air as it circulates around the globe. We can never own the air, its just our turn to breathe it. Tihei Mauri Ora – behold the breath of life!

We are living in our third planetary atmosphere. Our air has changed over the history of our planet. Air appears transparent to the naked eye, but we have ways of reading the changing nature of air. What we breathe and how we breathe contributes to good health outcomes and human wellbeing. A myriad of research bodies including  LAWA and NIWA are tasked with daily  monitoring of air quality. What is ‘fresh air’? What makes up good outdoor air quality? What’s in our air? 

These ideas and more were explored in a citizen art project where participants could express their hopes, values and aspirations about air.

About the Project Facilitator

Pam McKinlay (Tangata Tiriti) has a background in applied science and history of art. As an artist she works in collaboration with other artists locally and nationally, in community outreach and education projects around the theme of climate change, sustainability and biodiversity. She is the convenor and curator of the Art+Science project based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand.

Tiaki na te Āngi was exhibited in two Science Festival exhibitions and community festivals in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Pam McKinlay received a letter of support from the Hon. James Shaw, to exhibit the banners at the Parliament Visitor's Centre in 2023.

Publication details

Paperback 210mm x 260mm
64 pages: Colour Illustrations
ISBN 9780473673277
2022

RPA $20.00 (NZ) + P&P (Postage only in NZ)

OUT OF PRINT

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Memory is laid down through connections with habitat, local environment and each other. It is held in spaces between beings, often outside of human experience. What can we learn from other beings who have different sensory apparatus and perception of the world such as bees and whales? How do plants communicate with each other and across time? Why are we transported by sensory associations from our memories – the resonance of a karanga or a sonata, the smell of rain on hot earth? Where and how is experience stored, and how do we carry memory, so fleeting and lasting? Against this backdrop we explore our world at the intersection between humans and the much bigger, rest of our world. 

Memory and Mind is a publication for an exhibition with the same name.

Publication details

Paperback 148mm x 210mm
93 pages: Colour Illustrations
ISBN 978-0-473-71508-3 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-473-71509-0 (epub)

OUT OF PRINT

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