Dame Robin White.
Robin as a baby, on the steps of the Whites' Whangarei home, with family and friends. 1948.
Robin, right, with her sister Margaret 1950.
As Little Bo Peep at kindy.
As a student at Epsom Girls Grammar, around 1964. Robin is back row, fourth from right.
Robin's dad Albert Tikitu White in the family kumara patch in Raglan, 1965. He used to get Robin to help him in the patch.
Robin's mum Florence Miriam White in the kumara patch..
Around 1964. Robin White on the left trying to stop the flow of foam from a firefighting apparatus. Robin says it was in the corridor of the school dorm. "We thought we’d find out what happens if you set it off. Told matron it was an accident!"
Between 1969 and 1971 in front of her house at Bottle Creek, Paremata.
Bottle Creek around 1970. Robin White's little house, where she lived three years 1969-71. Bottle Creek, Paremata, was made famous by poet Sam Hunt.
Party at Bottle Creek around 1970. In front of Sam Hunt's house, just down the cliff path from Robin White's, on the shore of Paremata harbour. The photo includes: Back, L to R, Jerry and Prue Ursell, Honey Anderson, Robin White, and Bob Anderson (standing).Front, L to R: Don Binney, Jack Lasenby, Sam Hunt.
L to R: Robin's aunt Margaret Jones, Robin, husband Mike, her dad Albert White and her mother Florence White. Robin is in the first dress she ever bought - a Fanny Buss hand-printed cotton.
Robin with husband Mike and first child, Michael, 1973, in their home at Portobello, Otago Peninsula.
A Buzzy Bee For Siulolovao. 1977 screenprint, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Sam Hunt, Bottle Creek. Courtesy of University of Auckland Art Collection
"Fish and chips, Maketu", 1975 oil on canvas. Courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The real Maketu Fish and Chip shop, in 2014.
Mere and Siulolovao, Otago Peninsula, 1978, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
"This is me at Kaitangata" 1979, screen print. Courtesy: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
"I am doing the washing in the bathroom" 1983 woodblock, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Safety Matches, 1998, woven, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Robin White in Tonga 2015.
Robin White working with Ruha Fifita et al on the large ngatu, “Seen along The Avenue”. Shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2016.
Robin White at NGV exhibition in 2016. Photo Wayne Taylor
November 2017 in Lautoka, Fiji, where Robin White has been working with Tamari Cabeikanacea on a new artwork on masi (bark cloth).
Robin White working on masi (bark cloth) in Fiji 2017
In Fiji 2017.
A kupeti (or kupesi in Tonga) is a relief template with a design that, when placed under the tapa and rubbed with a cloth soaked in dye, the design appears on the upper surface of the tapa. Robin White working on it in Fiji.
One of the books that has influenced Dame Robin White the most.
'Blue Poles 1952 ' by US artist Jackson Pollock at London's Royal academy of arts. One of Robin White's favourites. Photo: AFP
"Descent from the Cross" by Roger Van Der Weyden 1400-1464 Prado Museum Madrid Another of Robin White's favourites. Photo: Josse Leemage/AFP
Artist Dame Robin White recently received a Laureate award from the Arts Foundation. You may know her works - bold crisp, lines and flat blocks of colour, depicting scenes of small-town Kiwi life. Flat-bed trucks and chip shops; "A Buzzy Bee For Siulolovao", "Sam Hunt, Bottle Creek". She is a painter, printmaker and in more recent years has worked with other forms such as tapa, with her artistic eye moving toward the Pacific Islands.
