Elam School of Fine Arts

Scope and Contents The collection contains letters from Ida Eise, an Auckland painter who taught at Elam School of Art and was a prominent member of the Auckland Society of Arts along with fellow artist Dorothy Morton. Eise was strongly influenced by the ideas of John Weeks (1888-1965), painter and art teacher, much of whose work was destroyed in a fire at Elam School of Art in 1949. The collection includes a letter from John Weeks to Dorothy Morton, referring to the fire and including a photograph, with...

Scope and Contents

The collection contains minutes, reports, notes, and correspondence relating to the establishment of the Elam Fine Arts Print Research Unit, as well as samples of work produced.

Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of material relating to Jim Allen’s teaching at the Elam School of Fine Arts and his professional sculptural commissions produced during the 1960s and 1970s.Documents produced as part of Allen’s tenure at Elam School of Fine Arts (1960-1977) include Faculty of Fine Arts meeting minutes, correspondence, time-tables and course material.Material relating to Allen’s art practice includes contracts and documentation of commissioned works,...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of papers and published works relating to Jonathan Mane-Wheoki's teaching and curatorial activities, and is divided into two main series: ‘Teaching material and subject files’ and ‘Festivals and events’. Teaching notes feature largely in the first series; the thematic files being created and added to throughout his career. Personal subject files are also included and cover a range of interests and activities such as New Zealand and Oceania art and film,...

Content Description

A selection of fine printing from Robin Lush's personal collection of work produced on the Elam letter-presses.

All items were originally provided for a reunion display to mark the 125th anniversary of Elam School of Fine Art organised by alumni from the 1960s and 1970s.

Scope and Contents

The collection is divided into four series : Photographs; Historical papers; Press clippings and Publications.

Items have been offered from a range of past staff and students of the Elam School of Fine Arts. While some original material has been retained for the Collection, many examples in the 'Photographs' series are copies created from loaned originals.