Freda

August 2016

Special Collections, University of Otago

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As a way of highlighting the Matariki Network, Dartmouth College’s Sarah M. Smith, Manager of their Book Arts Workshop, was invited to the University of Otago to be the Printer in Residence for 2016. The programme Sarah is involved in is a collaborative one, printing poems by Rhian Gallagher centred around Freda Du Faur, the first female mountaineer to scale Aoraki-Mt Cook, New Zealand’s highest peak. The poems are enhanced by illustrations by the Dunedin artist Lynn Taylor. Here are a number of draft samples of that work in progress.