Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa

"Sight Lines is a re-imagining of what art history can be, grounded in the land, cultures, languages and gendered experiences of Aotearoa, the indigenous name for New Zealand. The book is eclectic, ranging from weaving and textile art, to painting, photography, performance, installation, and community-based practice. It is told through the voices of women, tangata whenua and tangata tiriti artists, activists, makers. And it is a beautifully made volume, winner of the PANZ Book Design Awards 2025 . Traditional categories — painter, sculptor, “fine art” — give way to something more fluid: what it means to make, belong, remember. More than an art book, Sight Lines reads like a map of cultural survival, plurality, and becoming. As Western museums wrestle with restitution, as monuments topple or get remade, this book not only interprets colonial legacies but expands our sense of what art history can be."