Lawrence McDonald

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Teaching 2010 Selected Publications Awards and Achievements

Lawrence’s teaching and research interests focus on photography, film, video art, and performance. He has taught courses for the School of Media Studies, Massey University, Palmerston North and Critical Studies for the Fine Arts Department, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington. From 2000 to 2006, he was programme co-coordinator of Contextual Studies for the Bachelor of Visual Arts at WelTec.

In 2008 and 2009 he taught ARTH 335 Topics in the History of Photography for Art History at Victoria University.

He is currently editing and writing several chapters for the forthcoming book, New Zealand Film: an Illustrated History, which will be published by Te Papa Press. He continues to work on his PhD Thesis, a study of the careeer and oeuvre of the New Zealand photographer, Ans Westra.

Since 1990 he has edited and published the arts journal Illusions, which has a particular focus on moving image and performance works.

From 1999 to 2009, he was a committee member of the Screen Innovation Production Fund, a partnership between Creative New Zealand and the New Zealand Film Commission. He is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of a new organization, the Emerging Artist’s Trust of Wellington (EAT). In 2007, he was a category adviser (illustrative) for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Teaching (2010)

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Selected Publications

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Books:  

(Ed.), Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs, Wellington: BWX Publications, 2004.

(Ed.), Les Cleveland: Six Decades - Message from the Exterior, Wellington: Victoria University Press and City Gallery Wellington, 1998.

Chapters or Sections in Books

"Exacting Reproduction: Darcy Lange's Work Studies in Schools", in Mercedes Vicente (ed.), Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work, New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery & Birmingham, UK: Ikon Gallery, 2008, pp.115 - 127.

“A Critique of the Judgement of Bad Taste or Beyond Braindead Criticism: the Films of Peter Jackson”, in Paul A. Woods (ed.), Peter Jackson: from Gore to Mordor, London: Plexus Publishing, 2005, pp.47-57.

“From the Family of Man to the Family of ‘Ans’: Ans Westra’s Photographic Books for Children”, in McDonald, L. (ed.), Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs, Wellington: BWX Publications, 2004, pp.72-90.

“’P’ is for Pathways into Ans Westra’s Photographic Practice: ‘A’ is for Answers to Questions about the Identity of our Object of Study”, in ibid, pp.14 -19.

“A Dwelling with Many Rooms: Les Cleveland’s Construction of New Zealand Experience in Images, Words and Song”, in McDonald, L. (ed.), Les Cleveland: Six Decades - Message from the Exterior, Wellington: Victoria University Press and City Gallery Wellington, 1998, pp.6-27.

“Cover Versions: the Album Sleeve in the Era of Musical Reproduction”, in Ian Wedde and Gregory Burke (eds), Now See Hear! Art, Language and Translation, Wellington: Victoria University Press and City Art Gallery, 1990, pp.153- 159, 173.

Journal Articles

“Alice in Yonderland: Snakeskin’s Uneasy Ride Down the Two-Lane Black Top”, Illusions 34, winter 2002, pp. 6-10.

“Mondo Illingworth – a Tourist in Paradise Lost: the Art of Michael Illingworth”, Art New Zealand 102, autumn 2002, pp.74-77, 84.

“Adaptation and Sequel: the Limitations of What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”, Film Criticism (USA), Vo.25, No.3, spring 2001, pp.37-45.

“Tristes Tropes in Nelson: Fear and Beauty at the Suter”, Art New Zealand 94, autumn 2000,pp.62-65.

“Weird Scenes in the Museum Case: Terry Urbahn Provides a Service”, Art New Zealand 86, autumn 1998, pp.38-41.

“Film as a Battleground: Social Space, Gender Conflict and Other Issues in Once Were Warriors”, Illusions 24, spring 1995, pp.15-23.

“Art & Heritage: Inheritance at the Wellington City Art Gallery”, Art New Zealand 61, summer 1991-1992, pp.32-34.

“Ragged House Photographs: Ans Westra’s Washday at the Pa”, Photofile, vol.6, no.3, spring 1988, pp.18 - 23.

Exhibition Catalogues 

Ralph Hotere Song Cycle series, Manufacturing Meaning: the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection in Context, Wellington: Adam Art Gallery, 1999.

PALeo Neo Video: Chapters from the History of Video Art in New Zealand 1970s - 1990s, Wellington: The Film Archive, 1999.

VDU: Video Down Under - Recent Video Art from New Zealand, Wellington: City Gallery, 1996.

Number 8 / Super 8: Amateur and Home Movie Making in New Zealand, Wellington: The Film Centre, 1995.

Genre Benders and Grandes Buffs: a Revisionist Micro-History of 25 Years of New Zealand Film, Wellington: City Gallery, 1994.

Kei te Anganui / At the Opposite, catalogue for construction on site by Daniel Buren at Shed 11 - the Temporary / Contemporary, National Art Gallery, Wellington, March - May 1990.

Contributions to Exhibition Catalogues

“Robert Longo”, catalogue essay for Powerworks: from the MCA collection, New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery et al., 1994, pp.26-27.

“How Green was my Narrative”, catalogue essay for Imposing Narratives - beyond the documentary in recent New Zealand photography, Wellington: City Art Gallery, November 1989 - January 1990, pp.68-69.

Reviews

“A Life’s Work: Darcy Lange in Retrospect”, Illusions 39, winter 2007, pp.40-43.

“Remarkable Body of Work” (review of Janet Bayly (ed.), Songs of Innocence – Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe), New Zealand Journal of Photography no.61, 2006, p.26.

“DadSonImage” (review article on Tapping the Pulse: Philip Dadson Works 1971 - 2004), Illusions 37, winter 2005, pp.44-46.

Review of Photography and Paradox by Peter Turner, New Zealand Journal of Photography, no.36, August 1999, p.27.

“Remix Pastmaster: Philip Dadson’s Earth/Breath”, Log Illustrated 1, winter 1997, p.31.

“Rosemarie Trockel”, Art + Text 47, January 1994, pp.85-86
 
“Christina Kubisch”, Art + Text 44, January 1993, pp.89-90.

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Awards and Achievements

• 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs.

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