Marilynn Webb – Folded In The Hills

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ISBN: 9780473685157
Title: Marilynn Webb – Folded In The Hills
Author: HAMMONDS LUCY

Published in 2023 by Dunedin Public Art Gallery
in conjunction with the exhibition Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills at Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
9 December 2023–14 April 2024.

Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills is a major
forthcoming bilingual publication to mark the
monumental retrospective of Ngapuhi, Te Roroa
and Ngati Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM)
(1937–2021) at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. It
presents essays by curators Lucy Hammonds,
Lauren Gutsell and Bridget Reweti, extant
poems by Cilla McQueen and Hone Tuwhare
and two new ekphrastic poems by essa may
ranapiri and Ruby Solly. It features over 80
colour plates from Marilynn’s career spanning
1968 to 2005.
Marilynn was the first Maori woman to hold the
Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of
Otago in 1974 in Otepoti Dunedin. Part of the
Tovey/Taiapa Generation which included artists
such as Ralph Hotere, Sandy Adsett and Cliff
Whiting, Marilynn was one of the few women
from this cohort to maintain an art career which
lasted over 50 years.
Her early works map her journey of coming into the landscapes of Te Waipounamu, portraying a
fundamental concern of Marilynn’s work, a connection to whenua which shaped the five decades of
practice to follow. By the end of the 1970s, Marilynn’s political position had become closely entwined
with her work. Over the decade of the 1980s, she created her most well-known and powerful works
of environmental activism. From the late 1980s, moving regularly between print and drawing,
Marilynn’s work delved deeply into specific landscapes and histories of Waipounamu where she
traced important ara tawhito highlighting the significance of travel routes and their ecological
reciprocation between people and the environment.
Marilynn was a lifelong conservationist and opportunities to travel with the Department of
Conservation in the 1990s and early 2000s amplified her resolve, shaping her later work and offered
adventure in the places she loved. Her work during this time lay a claim for Maori names and
narratives of place, navigating beyond a colonial tableau, and deepening her connections with the
people and whenua of Te Waipounamu.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01/11/2023
Temporarily out of stock