The Gallery has worked closely with a team of designers and developers including Felix Henning-Tapley, Henry Babbage, Johnny Sainsbury and Blaine Western, to deliver a fresh, clean, easily navigable site that is a pleasure to explore. This has enabled state-of-the-art functionality whilst retaining the Gallery’s distinctive graphic identity.
Gallery Director Tina Barton is delighted with the new website. “We have achieved an excellent balance between visual and textual components. Images of art works and installation views of exhibitions have been optimised, while we have put a lot of effort into providing rich resources for researchers.”
Boasting new features and a deep archive, the website is an easy-to-use repository of Gallery exhibitions, events, publications, and research.
The new website also includes a searchable database providing unprecedented access to Nga Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection online.
This project has been funded in part by a Museum Hardship Grant provided by National Services Te Paerangi and has been facilitated by Vernon Systems, bringing the University Art Collection into line with many of the best museum collections nationwide.
While the Gallery team will be uploading information to the site for several months to come, adding 1999–2010 exhibitions to the online archive and building comprehensive information on Collection items, the new website already has a depth and richness that will prove enormously useful to staff, students and the wider public.
To achieve this significant milestone the Gallery extends its deepest gratitude to all those involved, including those visionaries who donated funds at the Gallery’s establishment that have helped us take this next step to becoming a digital as well as a physical platform for art in Aotearoa New Zealand.
While the new Gallery website is under construction, access to the Adam’s old website will be maintained. This can be accessed at: www.legacy.adamartgallery.nz