Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 Anuk Tola Our story begins one night

Our story begins one night as Helen and Tim get ready for bed in their new space rocket bunk beds… but sleep will have to wait as they magically blast up

and a gift to seekers of all denominations

legends and stories of the gods

this collection is a coda to Simon's acclaimed Pike in the Basement

The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past

Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 Anuk Tola Our story begins one nightIn a collection spanning her career, highly regarded art historian and curator Christina Barton reminds readers of the art writers essential quandary: how to put the visual, material, sensory and temporal into words. The project of art writing is at once argumentative and invested, she writes, self doubting and ambitious, flawed yet with its own beauty (at its best). Published in partnership with Te Ptaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Out of the Blue gathers