Along with her late partner Tony Burton, New Zealand artist Dinah Priestley has spent decades creating art.
The couple, also actors, used a range of mediums including masks, cartoons, painting and especially batik - the practice of drawing or stamping wax on a cloth to prevent colour absorption during the dyeing process.
Tony and Dinah lived and had their art studios at the The Anchorage, a historic house in Wellington's Thorndon.
Their art reflects New Zealanders in all their glory, from politicians and protestors to strip-club queens, shearers and suffragettes.
They captured social issues of the time, and portraits of well-known New Zealanders ranging from John Clarke to Sam Hunt and Robert Muldoon.
Now their lives’ work is shared in a just released book, An Eccentric History in Batik: The art of Dinah Priestley and Tony Burton.
Dinah speaks to Culture 101.
