Avis
New Zealand born Avis Higgs is an award winning painter and one of Australasia’s most innovative textile designers of the 1940s.
New Residencies Fund art auction launched
The College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington is launching a new fund for creatives with an online auction, in partnership with the Massey Foundation.
Leading NZ artists and alumni including Sir Richard Taylor, Kate Sylvester, John Drawbridge, Judy Darragh, Avis Higgs, Guy Ngan and many more have donated 27 works to help launch the Residencies Fund.
Work of the month
When the lights go on again
This piece of fabric was part of the bedspread Avis made from offcuts of her designs done at STP (Silk and Textile Printers). The design was one of the Victory Loan Fabrics, its title written on the fabric "When the Lights go on", speaks of a time when the War and the Blackouts are...
© Avis Higgs, 2014
Design: Mission Hall Creative
Words: Tamsin Ewing and Marguerite Beere
Consultant: Adroite Communications
