Marilynn Webb Cloud Landscape 2 (detail) 1973. Linoleum engraving. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1973 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Marilynn Webb Rakiura 2002. Pastel on paper. Marilynn Webb Estate collection
Marilynn Webb Mataura Valley Suite No. 1 1995. Pastel on arches paper. Collection of Eastern Southland Gallery, purchased with a donation from D. Gilchrist February/March 1995
Marilynn Webb Snow clouds and tussock, Lake Mahinerangi 1989. Hand-coloured linocut on paper. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1993 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Marilynn Webb Cloud Landscape 2 1973. Linoleum engraving. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1973 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
8 June – 13 October 2024
"It’s nothing to do with drawing landscape, it’s to do with connection…"
Marilynn Webb (1937–2021)
Across five decades, Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM) dedicated herself to making art concerned with the relationships between land, sky and water. Extending from Te Tai Tokerau Northland, to the home she made in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Webb spent her lifetime tracing the potential of the horizon and finding strength in the embrace of the hills. This is the legacy that she leaves to the next generation: the power of connection between tangata and whenua, people and land.
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Curator:
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Exhibition number:
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Exhibition developed, toured and led by
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Marilynn Webb Aramoana Soup
Aotearoa New Zealand has a long tradition of environmental protest, often centred on the shoreline and with artists at the forefront. Aramoana, near the entrance to Otago Harbour, was proposed as the site of a large aluminium smelter by a New Zealand and foreign-owned consortium in the 1970s. The Save Aramoana Campaign was formed in 1974 and involved many well-known artists. The smelter proposal was eventually abandoned and the saltmarshes designated as a reserve. In 1982, Marilyn Webb produced a print portfolio titled Taste Before Eating, which included Aramoana Soup. Written in the style of the popular radio personality Aunt Daisy, Webb’s ‘recipes’ were a warning about the negative impacts of projects that prioritised economic benefits over the welfare of the environment.
(Te Wheke, 2020)