WP:GLAM/Left Bank

This is the project page for Wikimedia activity connected with the Left Bank Art Gallery, Greymouth, New Zealand.

People working on this project

Te Tai Poutini Artist Legacy

The Left Bank received Te Urungi seed funding in 2021 for a project to create Wikipedia articles about West Coast artists and upload photos from the Left Bank collection. Giantflightlessbirds and Rimusky also uploaded photographs from the Yvonne Rust Archive on behalf of the copyright owners, the Yvonne Rust Trust.

West Coast artists

To qualify for a Wikipedia article, an artist will need to have had significant coverage of themselves (not exhibitions) in several reliable independent sources. That means newspaper and magazine stories, a book chapter, radio interviews, academic articles, exhibition catalogues etc. To be listed in Wikidata, the database that underpins Wikipedia, we just need one reference: an exhibition catalogue or a book that gives a short bio, for example. Note: artists cannot create or edit articles about themselves!

In a couple of meetings at the Left Bank Art Gallery we brainstormed a list of West Coast artists that could be covered. The Left Bank Art Gallery is compiling an [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J6u2ka-6kYV_646B_l3b2oHWBDA-bCEo archive of media coverage] of West Coast artists. The ones we wanted to tackle first are:

Artist	Wikidata	Wikipedia	Quality	Commons	Notes
class="wikitable" style="font-size:smaller" \|+ First lot of artists to work on
Andris Apse	Q99337098	Andris Apse			[https://web.archive.org/web/20080602021717/http://www.dphoto.co.nz/articles/harold-mason-fiordland-a-photographic-project-from-the-heart-tpm-163 Archived ref].
Catherine Brough	Q99337106	Catherine Brough			Recent book Landscape Experienced
Jim Cooper \|Q18632073 \|Jim Cooper (ceramicist) \|Stub \| \|
John Crawford \|Q111173506 \|John Crawford (potter) \| \| \|
Alison Hale	Q99304897	Alison Hale	Start	Alison Hale	Article created 12 April 2021
Paul Haywood \|Q99304638 \| \| \| \|
Pat Lindbom \|Q111173865 \| \| \| \|See Hokitika Handmade
Grant Lingard	Q5596319	Grant Lingard	Stub
Tony Manuel	Q106308504				Anthony Apirana Manuel. See Inspirations interview in WestLib.
Rory McDougall	Q106308428				See Inspirations interview in WestLib.
Caroline McQuarrie \|Q110551753 \| \| \| \|
Marilyn Rea-Menzies \| Q106271795	Marilyn Rea-Menzies	C	Marilyn Rea-Menzies	Created 7 April 2021
Dusty Rhodes \|Q111174940 \| \| \| \|Grey Star article in archives
Yvonne Rust \|Q99304224 \|Yvonne Rust \| Stub		book!
Sue Syme	Q99337139	Sue Syme	Stub
Brent Trolle	Q99337126	Brent Trolle	Start	Brent Trolle	Created 24 May 2021
Chris Weaver	Q19667053	Chris Weaver (potter)	Start		Need photos of him and his work. See: 100 NZ Craft Artists.
Toss Woollaston	Q15491530	Toss Woollaston \| Start		Worked in the West Coast in 1960s; see Pat White memoir and bio

File:Left Bank meetup MRD.jpgSource: {{Q| Q106308127}}, used to update {{Q| Q99304897}}, {{Q| Q99337106}}, {{Q| Q99337139}}, {{Q| Q19667053}}, {{Q| Q99337098}}. Westland District Library has Inspirations, a series of 2010 interviews by Makaira Jenkins (these presumably were also printed in the local paper at some point, but no luck tracking that down so far):

{{cite journal |last1=Jenkins |first1=Makaira |title=Alison Hale |journal=Inspirations |date=September 2010 |publisher=Westland District Library}}

Created: {{Q| Q106308331}}, {{Q| Q106308160}}, {{Q|Q106308428}}, {{Q|Q106308504}}. Remaining Wikidata for artists on list done March 2022.

Photographs of local artists taken at a Left Bank Art Gallery opening for Puanga Matariki on Friday 25 June were uploaded into Commons and a corresponding Wikidata item created: {{Q| Q107388027}}, {{Q| Q107388059}}, {{Q| Q107388087}}, {{Q| Q107388149}}, {{Q| Q107388193}}, {{Q| Q107388215}}