Collections

Maidment Theatre, University of Auckland

Pasadena Intermediate School, Auckland

Turnbull Library, Wellington

Rotorua Museum of Art and History

Waikato Art Gallery, Hamilton

Auckland City Art Gallery

Art Station, Auckland

Also represented in private collections in NZ, Australia, UK, USA, Denmark, France, Crete, Japan and China

Prospect Collection, NZ

Forsyth Collection, NZ

International Peace Academy of Crete Collection, 1987

“Art for Peace” Exhibition Tour of Japan, ‘86. Now in Peace Museum in Gifu, Japan.

Wallace Foundation Collection, Pah Homestead, Auckland.

 Major Commissions

1985    Panel 2, VAANA Mural, Karangahape Road, Auckland

Banner installation for Auckland Grammar School’s new Music Suite Atrium (with Q.E.II studio grant)

Portrait of Rewi Alley 1985 (Beijing), commissioned by the Turnbull Library

Edition of Human Rights Prints for HART

1995    Five graphics in “Below the Surface”–NZ Anthology of  Nuclear Testing Protest ‘95

1999    Graphics and Cover Design for “Tarawera Te Maunga Tapu”- poems by Riemke Ensing, based on M. L-B’s paintings, Pear Tree Press, Auckland.

2002    Graphics & Cover for“Nga Maunga Korero–The Language of Mountains”,DOC.

2003    “Big Red – Celebrating the Pohutukawa”, a Conservation Triptych commissioned by Rotorua Museum of Art & History.

2004    Maungauika North Head Artists’ Project. Concept organization and installation of 14 painted panels and 2 poem banners, commissioned by the Department of Conservation for the opening of the restored heritage Summit Barracks Auckland, by the Right Honourable Helen Clark.

2007    “Nuclear Free”, ML-B’s diptych panels permanently installed by the Department of Conservation in the Maungauika North Head Summit Barracks, Auckland.    

2018    Cover design for book of poems by Peter Lawlor. NZ /USA

Bibliography

“NZ Art – A Modern Perspective”. E. Bett, pp 133 – 134, 206, Reed Methuen, 1986

Art NZ, No 39, pp 29-30. Riemke Ensing

Art NZ, No 48, pp 90-91. Riemke Ensing

NZ Listener, April 10, 1982, p 34. Juliet Batten

NZ Times, Sept, 1984, p 11. Warwick Brown

1991, Drawings for IAPS Newsletter Vol.X1,No1,pp 3-6,(re: 1990 International Conference,Ankara,Turkey),

“K.M. File”, pp 34,36,38,44. Riemke Ensing, Hazard Press, Christchurch,1993

“James K. Baxter” Paper, 1994. Riemke Ensing

NZ Who’s Who Aotearoa, 1994, 1995 etc.

“Descant 88”, Canada, Vol. 26 No. 1, Spring 1995: “Face Up”, Riemke Ensing

1996 ongoing, Collaborating with Riemke Ensing on a work based on my artworks.

“A History of Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms (VAANA)”. (updating 2007), Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett.

Pages 27, 32 & 36,The Journal of New Zealand Art History, Vol. 28, ’07, Elizabeth Rankin

“No dream but life: J.K. Baxter’s Spark to a waiting Fuse & Jackson’s Lord of the Rings”, Sport 28 Autumn 2002.   Gregory O’Brien.

2009, Art NZ, No 131, pp 24-60, Riemke Ensing.

2011, DVD of Cultural Icon Interview with Riemke Ensing.

2012, Devonport Flagstaff, June 8, 2012, P 16: “Artistic Approach to Activism Interview” by Maire Veith.

2013, “The Vernacularist 1”,Tony Watkins, p27.

2014 North Shore Times April 18. “Reliving Cultural Icons”, Simon Maude, p2.

2014 Turangawaiwai – Depot Art Space, Lia Kent McKillop pp64-69.

2015 “Wahine” – “The Vernacularist” series.

2016.Art NZ No 159,pp 80-83. Riemke Ensing. “New Work by Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett.

“What Will We Leave Them ?”  8 page Catalogue. Notes by Robin Woodward PhD, Photos by Sam Hartnett.