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 […]
This review was written by Peter Gibbs and published in the Nelson Mail on 7 September 2011 Complete account of a potter who touched hundreds of lives. In 1973 I was a young maths teacher at Glenfield College in Auckland, moonlighting as a pottery night class teacher at Rangitoto College. My enthusiasm wasn’t quite matched […]
Listen to a radio interview with Theresa Sjoquist about Yvonne Rust, QSM, and the the writing of her biography, Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit. www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/2492686
Beginning in August 2007, I started research for the biography, Yvonne Rust – Maverick Spirit. The completed work included the location and interview of 400 people, approximately 80 of them in depth. Yvonne’s great grandfather, John Stewart Rust, arrived in Whangarei when thirty-six houses constituted the township. His son, Gordon, Yvonne’s father, was a native schools headmaster. In 1928, when Yvonne was six, he […]
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