John Tāne Christeller

Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue is a collection of words and images by a scientist and artist who is fascinated by language. John Tāne Christeller began writing poems to explain and extend the screenprints and woodblocks he was making, and found it a natural form of storytelling, including working directly in te reo. He writes of fable and fabrication, the...

Across the motu there are places that remind those who stop there of the bloody battles between Māori iwi and the Crown, known as the New Zealand Wars. Many don’t know where these places are; most don’t stop. In 2021, Palmerston North poet and artist John Tāne Christeller decided to visit these sites and record what he saw. From his...