24 Sep 2017

Unearthing and cataloguing buried treasure

From Standing Room Only, 1:30 pm on 24 September 2017

Artist Alex Monteith is behind a push to catalogue hundreds of boxes of material excavated from Fiordland back in the late 1960s and early 70s.The material, mainly from maori sites, has been stored at Southland Museum and Art Gallery and Otago Museum, but until Alex got involved, little of it had been examined. Now she's working with archeologists and historians and other artists to catalogue artifacts in another 25 of the boxes, as part of an exhibition called Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions, currently showing at St Paul Street Gallery in Auckland. Lynn Freeman asks Alex Monteith to describe some of these hidden treasures.