Tag: Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric

Totally tapa: Installing Ngatu tā’uli 2011

Posted by Liz Wild   ●   11 Jan 2012

Tapa cloths are usually much smaller than Ngatu tā’uli  2011. Its size required a specialised installation technique and system that could address its unique properties and needs. Following on from our previous post, conservation staff were key additions to the large team installing the Ngatu tā’uli 2011 tapa for ‘Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social…

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Totally tapa: Conservation of Ngatu tā’uli

Posted by Liz Wild   ●   9 Jan 2012

Conservation staff regularly devise unique solutions and techniques to allow large contemporary art works to be safely and elegantly displayed. Here is an insight into the behind-the-scenes work that went towards successfully displaying one of the special acquisitions for GOMA’s 5th Birthday celebrations. The arrival of the tapa was greatly anticipated, not only due to…

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