People who were regarded as “Arty” and/or eccentric by the locals in the Whangarei Heads area were pretty well tolerated from at least as far back as the 1950s; sometimes with bemusement, but often as wise people in their own fields. Though there wasn’t much interest in those particular fields, the eyes of the locals […]
Yvonne Rust, QSM, has been included in the expanded and revised edition of Landscape Paintings of New Zealand – A Journey from North to South by Christopher Johnstone. This beautiful book launched yesterday at Jonathan Grant Galleries in Auckland, includes 143 magnificent colour plates of New Zealand landscape paintings by some of the great artists of the […]
Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit by Theresa Sjoquist reviewed by Shari Pickering, Life Coach and Co-Owner of On the Edge Gallery in Whangarei, NZ – published in May-June News of On the Edge Gallery & Design. At the beginning I thought I was reading a book about Yvonne Rust. By the end I knew I had read […]
This review was published in the Go Arts section of the Christchurch Press on 26 August 2011 – reviewed by Warren Feeney. How many books are there on the life of an art teacher employed at a secondary school and her influence on the development of New Zealand art? Curiously none immediately come to mind […]
Review by Peter Jackson of the Northern Age – published 24 November 2011 Yvonne Rust was undoubtedly a Northland icon. Prodigiously talented, she was synonymous with artistic expression, particularly as far as the non-arts community was concerned, thanks to the Quarry in Whangarei in her later life. But there was much, much more to this […]
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