John Daley Margery Blackman frame 2 c.1977. Collection of Te Papa Museum of New Zealand.
Margery Blackman From Aramoana 1981-82. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum, purchased 1982.
Margery Blackman Tapestry for Patricia 1987. Hand woven wool tapestry. Given by Margery Blackman in 2021, Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago.
Margery Blackman
Weaving, Life
18 May 2024 - 13 October 2024
Margery Blackman: Weaving, Life surveys the life’s work of Ōtepoti Dunedin artist and textiles scholar Margery Blackman. This exhibition centres on the small yet significant oeuvre of woven tapestries that Blackman developed over a period of three decades, and places these within the context of her early weaving and later scholarly contributions to cultural institutions in Ōtepoti and throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
This exhibition has been curated for Dunedin Public Art Gallery by Elle Loui August and Jane Groufsky with the support of Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
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