Clouds is a small publishing house involved in the publication of art books in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We are primarily interested in increasing the supply of interesting tomes and slimmer volumes both about and by artists.
We are Warren Olds and Gwynneth Porter. Clouds has offices in Christchurch
PUBLISHED TITLES
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Kate Newby, Incredible Feeling
Michael Stevenson & Jan Verwoert, Animal Spirits
Nova Paul, Form Next to Form Next to Form
(with Dent-De-Leone)
Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Green with Envy
Daniel Malone, Black Market Next To My Name,
co-published with Hopkinson Cundy
Louise Menzies, Pursuit of an Ideal
Volume 2., a document-extension of the Artspace project, co-published with Artspace
025 Jan Bryant and Leonhard Emmerling,
PX: Thoughts on Painting
026 Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People: the Book of the Zine
020 Julian Dashper, This is not writing,
co-published with Michael Lett
023 Pūrākau / Myths and Legends / Mitos y Leyendas
022 Sean Kerr, Bruce is in the garden; so someone is in the garden
017 Peter Robinson’s Ack and other Abdications,
co-published with Artspace
018 Sriwhana Spong, Nijinsky,
co-published with Michael Lett
016 Bruce Russell Left-handed Blows: Writing on sound, 1993–2009
015 Daniel Knorr Pukapuka Tohunga Mahi Toi,
edition published with Artspace
014 Sean Kerr Pop, co-published with Michael Lett
012 The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, co-published with Aotearoa Digital Arts
011 Dan Arps' Sun Seeker, co-published with The Physics Room, Neon Parc and Michael Lett
010 Paul Winstanley Threshold: Paintings 1989–2007,
co-published with Artspace
009 Volume 1., a document-extension of the Artspace project, co-published with Artspace
008 Teststrip: a history of an artist-run space (1992-1997)
007 Meg Cranston, Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World,
co-published with Artspace
006 Ava Seymour, The White House Years
005 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
004 Judy Darragh, Arts Society
003 Tessa Laird, Shards of the Jealous Potter
002 Sweet Punch: recent Nordic video
p001 Bruce Barber & Emma Bugden, Party Without Party
DISTRIBUTION TITLES
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All the Cunning Stunts, SO GAY!,
published by All the Cunning Stunts
Connect, published by Colophon
Ruth Buchanan Lying Freely, published by Jan van Eyck Acadamie and Casco
Louise Menzies & Warren Olds, Mushroom magazine poster
David Bennewith, Suggestions poster, Joseph Churchward's suggested designs for TV 2 logo
Speculation, NZ Venice Project 2007,
published by Artspace
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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Peter Robinson: Modern Standards (essays by Francis Pound, Lauren Winstone and Luke Willis Thompson)
STOCKISTS
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Our publications are available from the following stockists:
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Pah Homestead/TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
Unity Books, Auckland
University Bookshop, Auckland
Tivoli, Waiheke Island
Wheelers Books, Auckland
Gordon Harris, Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch
Unity Books, Wellington
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
Page and Blackmore Booksellers, Nelson
Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a stockist. We offer standard trade terms to retail partners.
INTERNATIONAL
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Our publications are distributed in the USA and Canada by RAM.
In Germany, Austria and Switzerland our publications are distributed by Vice Versa Vertrieb.
CONTACT
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PO Box 147-553
Ponsonby, Auckland 1144
Aotearoa New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
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“When we look at Antarctica, from the deck of a ship, or in a make-believe tableau, and fix it in our gaze, what we see is a figment of the imagination. The sight we encounter is a sight already seen, image upon image fixed in the shadow of our dreaming by the medium of photography itself... Photography confirms a ‘having been there’ that is desirable, touchable, and ultimately purchasable. It becomes the pre-text for travel and loads a geographic imaginary that renders the traveller blind.“ (Anne Noble)
Anne Noble, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most preeminent photographers, set her sights on Antarctica early in the 21st century, undertaking three missions there and making a world tour of Antarctic centres in parallel. She made three bodies of work, one of which, Ice Blink, forms the basis of this major volume. It sets imagery taken in Antarctic centres, aquaria and museums that study Antarctica with photographs of human encounters with the icy continent and the Antarctic imaginary. Ice Blink features an essay by acclaimed essayist and novellist Ian Wedde.
Edited by Gwynneth Porter
Essay by Ian Wedde
Published by Clouds
December 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9864628-5-6
Hardcover
124 pages
63 Colour plates
English
Edition: 1000
Dimensions: 227 x 283 x 17 mm
Weight: 900 gm
Individually shrinkwrapped
NZD$49.95
Clouds publishing
PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
clouds.co.nz