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Caroline McQuarrie
Caroline Lucy McQuarrie (born 1975) is a New Zealand artist and senior lecturer in photography at Massey University in Wellington. Life McQuarrie was born in 1975 in Greymouth, on the West Coast Region, West Coast of the South Island. Her father Bob McQuarrie was a potter and her mother Barbara McQuarrie a textile artist. McQuarrie enjoyed drawing from an early age, and was influenced by family friends photographer Frank Simpson and potter Daphne Simpson who together ran Coast Craft in Greymouth; Daphne taught her to draw and paint, and she studied photography and painting in her final year of high school. At the University of Canterbury, she studied photography, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997. Artistic career After graduating, McQuarrie worked in photography laboratories in the United Kingdom, learning photo retouching and Adobe Photoshop. After returning to New Zealand in 2002 she began a Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Massey University in We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greymouth
Greymouth () (Māori: ''Māwhera'') is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council. The population of the whole Grey District is , which accounts for % of the West Coast's inhabitants. The Greymouth urban area had an estimated population of A large proportion of the District, 65%, is part of the Conservation Estate owned and managed by the Department of Conservation making Greymouth a natural centre for walkers and trampers. Location The town is located at the mouth of the Grey River, on a narrow coastal plain close to the foot of the Southern Alps. In clear weather, Aoraki / Mount Cook can be clearly seen to the south from near the town. The mouth of the river divides the town into three areas: Blaketown, close to the river's mouth on the south bank; Karoro, to the southeast, separated from Blaketown by a series of small estuarine lagoons; and Cobden, formerly a separate town, on the river's north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crochet
Crochet (; ) is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread (yarn), thread, or strands of other materials. The name is derived from the French term ''crochet'', meaning 'hook'. Hooks can be made from a variety of materials, such as metal, wood, bamboo, or plastic. The key difference between crochet and knitting, beyond the implements used for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before the next one is begun, while knitting keeps many stitches open at a time. Some variant forms of crochet, such as Tunisian crochet and broomstick lace, do keep multiple crochet stitches open at a time. Etymology The word crochet is derived from the Old French ''crochet'', a diminutive of ''croche'', in turn from the Germanic languages, Germanic ''croc'', both meaning "hook". It was used in 17th-century French lace-making, where the term ''crochetage'' designated a stitch used to join separate pieces of lace. The word ''crochet'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Bank Art Gallery
The Left Bank Art Gallery is a public art gallery in Greymouth, New Zealand. Operated by the West Coast Society of Arts Inc, it opened in 1992 in a 1927 Bank of New Zealand building on the left bank of the Grey River (New Zealand), Grey River. The only staffed public gallery on the West Coast, New Zealand, West Coast, it exhibits artists from Karamea to Haast, New Zealand, Haast, and holds the National Pounamu Collection which was assembled from a biennial carving competition. Origin There had been an Arts Society in Greymouth since the 1940s; its early members included George Chippendale (artist), George Chippendale, Arthur Foster (artist), Arthur Foster, David Graham (artist), David Graham, Allan Holcroft, and St Clair Sofield; they were joined by Toss Woollaston, Toss Wollaston in 1949. Art exhibitions were held in private rooms, hostels, the Copper Room of the Union Hotel, or on one occasion in an alleyway behind King's Hotel. Even in the 1980s there was no permanent art ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnegie Building (Hokitika)
The Westland District Library is the public library in Hokitika, on the West Coast, New Zealand, West Coast of New Zealand. Beginning as the Hokitika Literary Society in 1866, it occupied a Carnegie library building from 1908 as the Hokitika Free Public Library, moving out in 1975. Origins The population of Hokitika increased rapidly during the West Coast Gold Rush, West Coast gold rush of the 1860s. In 1866 the town formed a literary society, with membership costing 5 shillings a quarter. By 1867 the society had acquired 600 books but nowhere to house them, and began raising funds for a library. The Hokitika Town Hall and Literary Society was a two-storey wooden building designed by town surveyor and architect William Armson, William Barnett Armson in one week and built on Revell Street over five months in 1869. Two rooms were set aside as a reading room and library, with their own entrance; two more were devoted to museum exhibits, the nucleus of the Hokitika Museum. The read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
