In another collaboration, this time with past PhD student Kriselle Baker, Elizabeth co-edited a book on recent photographs by Fiona Pardington, launched at her Govett- Brewster Gallery exhibition in New Plymouth in June 2011.

Seven years’ research for Elizabeth Rankin, with printmaker Philippa Hobbs, culminated in a book and exhibition on the black artist Peter Clarke, Listening to Distant Thunder, in Johannesburg in May, which will travel to the South African National Gallery. Robin Woodward has produced two monographs published by White Space – Steve Woodward Sculptor and Mary McIntyre Painter – in 20 respectively. Following on the publication of her edited book on Henrietta Maria, Erin Griffey is currently developing a data base of works in the Stuart collections which is attracting international support. Iain Buchanan’s long-awaited book on the Habsburg tapestries is currently in press, and anticipated to appear this year. Len Bell’s book Marti Friedlander (Auckland University Press, 2009) was a finalist for the New Zealand Post National Book Awards in 2010 and has already been reprinted. Greg is currently working on a book for Cambridge University Press, The Psychology of Contemporary Art.

With his doctoral research on Indian art he is particularly well qualified to contribute to the new course on Global Art Histories that he and Caroline Vercoe will present in Semester 2 this year. The Department was pleased to welcome Greg Minissale to the staff at the beginning of 2010, and he has already made his presence felt with courses in contemporary art and theory, including a popular undergraduate course, Framing the Viewer. There has been a substantial rise in postgraduate numbers this year, many students attracted by the new Honours course on Art Curating and Writing run in collaboration with the Auckland Art Gallery, and coordinated by Ian Wedde. As Head of Department for Art History at the University of Auckland since 2010, Caroline Vercoe has found new ways to foster postgraduate study, and a very successful postgraduate conference was held in November 2010.

Angels & Aristocrats by Mary Kisler