Ann Calhoun, 2/14 Oriental Tce, Oriental Bay, Wellington 6011
PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING BOOKS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ARTICLES AND LECTURES
2015
Arts & Crafts Design: ‘like yet not like’ nature – sources for a New Zealand story (ebook released August 2015 –
ISBN 978-0-473-33435-2)
1897 to 1907: Aesthetic cum Arts & Crafts dress. Paper to 2015 Dunedin Costume and Textile Symposium, Otago Museum, 24 April 2015
2011
Textiles Designs Traced. Paper to 2011 Annual symposium of the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand, Tauranga Art Gallery,
17-18 June 2011.
2008
William Morris & South Kensington: Flatter surfaces, flatter style. Paper to seminar: William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 10 May 2008
2007
New Zealand Arts & Crafts panel: Te Papa, 18 October 2007
2006
The Arts & Crafts, Nature and flatness. Paper to Alexander Turnbull Library staff, 28 July 2006
2005
Nature’s Forms as Patterns: Design Instruction Considered. Paper to Southern Threads: Connecting dress, cloth and culture, 4th Costume & Textile Symposium, Otago Museum, 5-6 March 2005
2004
A new/old view of the Arts & Crafts: Separating the ‘tasteful’ sheep from the ‘philistine’ goats. Paper to Arts & Crafts Seminar, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 27-28 November 2004
Forgotten Artists: Arts & Crafts Canterbury Style. Paper at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 23 November 2004
Simplicity and Splendour: The Canterbury Arts & Crafts Movement from 1882. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu exhibition 19 November 2004 - 27 February 2005 (Curator and Exhibition catalogue author)
2000-2003
The Arts & Crafts movement in New Zealand 1870-1940: Women make their mark.
Lectures to publicise the book to:
Friends of the Auckland City Art Gallery, Wednesday 4 September 2003;
Whitirea Polytech class, Porirua, Wellington, 4 April 2003;
Karori Arts Centre;
Auckland Art Deco Society, Auckland, Sunday 24 March 2002;
Antiques & Heirlooms Society, Karori Nathan Centre, 6 November 2001;
Government Department (Raewyn Good & Vicki Terrell);
Women's Book Weekend (guest of AUP, publisher), 14 October 2000
2000
The Arts & Crafts Movement in New Zealand 1870-1940: Women make their mark, Auckland University Press 2000 (Author & Photographer)
Supported by Award in History, New Zealand History Research Trust Fund, Department Internal Affairs 1992 (Maximum grant awarded).
Supported by Suffrage Centennial Year Trust Grant 1992
1999
The botanical illustration-flower painting dichotomy. Paper to Women’s Studies Association Conference, Victoria University, Wellington,
5-7 November
1999
Centennial Women: Chrystabel Aitken & her peers. Paper to Celebrating the 1940 Centennial, Stout Research Centre conference at the National Library Auditorium, 5-6 November 1999
1996
flowers - prodigies of grace and freshness. Paper to Setting the Margins: Concepts of Print Culture in a New Zealand Context, Second Annual Conference on the History of Print Culture in New Zealand, 26-29 August 1996, Selwyn College, University of Otago, Dunedin
1995
Women, the Arts & Crafts and the Exhibition. Paper to Farewell Colonialism! Aspects of the Great International Exhibition Christchurch 1906-1907 conference 17 June 1995 & publication, organized by John Masefield Thompson & the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 1995
1994
Patronage, Parents & Publications. Paper to Provincialism, Prosperity & Patronage conference organized by the Department of Art History & Theory, University of Otago, 26-28 August 1994
Arts & Crafts Style. Paper to MONZ staff, May 1994
1993
A Trade for their Daughters: Women in the Fine and Applied Arts in New Zealand from 1870 to 1900. Bulletin of New Zealand Art History 14 1993
Women in the Arts & Crafts movement in New Zealand. Paper to New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, 1993
A Trade for their Daughters. Paper to White Camellias Conference, Christchurch, July 1993, organised by the Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Chrystabel & Florence: a Sculptor & a Design Teacher. Art New Zealand 68, Spring 1993
1991
The Book of New Zealand Women. Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991. Entries on: Dorothy Kate Richmond, Mina Arndt,
Margaret Butler, Mary and Margaret Alcorn, and Isabel Hodgkins
Women as Symbols in New Zealand Labour History. Paper to Women’s Studies Association, Wellington, 1991
1990
This, that and the other: Donors, women and art eduction. Bequest to the Nation, New Zealand Academy of Fine Art, Wellington, & Caltex Oil, 1990 (Exhibition catalogue essay)
1991
Woman as Symbol in New Zealand Labour History. Paper to Women’s Studies Assn Conference, 1991
Art and Organised Labour: Banners, Badges, Photographs, Films, Cartoons, Posters, Paintings, Sculpture; Images of working and trade union life in New Zealand, Wellington City Art Gallery, organised with the assistance of the Trade Union Education Authority and the Trade Union History Project, 20 October 1990 - 21 January 1991 (Co-Curator and Exhibition catalogue)
1989-1990
Artists' images of women’s bodies recycled by history, 1989 Women’s Studies Assn Conference Papers, Lincoln University Printery, 1990 Associated lectures: Rangiruru, Christchurch, August 1989, published December 1990; WSA Post-Conference Day, 12 November [1989]; & NZ Catholic Women’s Assn, 1993)
1988
New Zealand women artists before and after 1893, Women’s Studies Journal, 4 (1), September 1988. Journal article, pp54-67
Whakamamae, Wellington City Art Gallery, 2 April-19 June 1988 (Exhibition catalogue preparation & editor)
1987
Goncharova, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 11 September-15 November 1987 (Exhibition catalogue editor)
1986
Face to Face: A survey of artists’ prints, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1986 (Co-Curator with Anne Kirker, Co-Author, Researcher, Cataloguer)
‘Deaccessioning, Why Not?’, AGMANZ News 16.3, September 1985 (News article)
1984
Aspects of New Zealand Art 1890-1940, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1984 (Co-Curator, Researcher, Cataloguer), and ‘The Acquisition of New Zealand Art for the National Collection: The Place of the Donor’ (Aspects article)
Thoughts on Cataloguing Art Works, AGMANZ News 15.1, March 1984 (News article)
1983
Cataloguers’ Manual for the Visual Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1983 (Manual author)
1982
Two Wellington Entrepreneurs of the Thirties: II Mary Murray Fuller. Art New Zealand 24, Winter
1982
Two Wellington Entrepreneurs of the Thirties: I Edwin Murray Fuller. Art New Zealand 23, Autumn 1982
1981
The first fifty years: British art of the 20th century, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1981 (Researcher, Cataloguer)
National Art Gallery Acquisitions: 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1985-86 (Cataloguer & catalogue compilation)
Canadian Outdoor Recrestion Demand Study, Parks Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1973 (Technical writer & editor)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2004- 2005
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Contract Curator
for: Simplicity and Splendour: The Canterbury Arts & Crafts Movement from 1882 (& exhibition catalogue)
1997
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Contract Curator for Day-One exhibition. Museum opened 14 February 1998
1994-5
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Project Team; Short-term contracts; Subject Specialist: Arts & Crafts
1991
Contract with Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Toi Aotearoa to prepare Council Collection Inventory; and Contract with state-owned enterprise to prepare Collection Inventory
1990
Wellington City Art Gallery: Research Curator
1988
National Art Gallery: Coordinator for collection computerisation project
1987-8
Wellington City Art Gallery: Education Researcher, Exhibition Catalogue Editor
1980-7
National Art Gallery: Curator, Researcher, Cataloguer, Registrar
1974-8
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Toi Aotearoa: Advisory Officer: Visual Arts, Crafts, Modern Dance, Maori Arts & Crafts
1973
Outdoor Recreation Research Section, Parks Canada, Ottawa: Technical Writer and Editor
1965-70
Lloyd, Wise, Bouly & Haig, London; Smart & Biggar, and Alex E McRae & Co, Ottawa: Patent Agent
1964
New Zealand Patent Office Examiner
EDUCATION
1990
Writing/Editing Certificate, Department of Journalism, Wellington Polytechnic
1984
Diploma of the New Zealand Art Galleries and Museums Assn
1979
Recreation Concepts, University Extension, Victoria University, Wellington
1972
BA Art History With Distinction, Carleton Univeristy, Ottawa, Canada
1960-2
Chemistry I, II, III, Mathematics I, Physics I, Victoria College, Wellington; and Otago College, Dunedin
1956 - 59
Wellington Girls’ College to Upper Sixth Form; Prefect
1953-56
Yonkers Junior-Senior High School, Yonkers, New York, USA
Earlier education in Wellington and Ottawa, Canada
Interests: Arts & Crafts, Fine & Applied Art, Theatre, Ballet, Reading, Travel and Family.
