Research interests and projects
My research looks at the way social history can be read through textiles and adornment, and what these crafts reveal about the attitudes and values of an era. Recent projects have focused on textile design in Aotearoa New Zealand as a vernacular language which has been used to reflect personal identity. Outside the Museum, I am also a textile practitioner with an interest in printmaking and embroidery.
Selected publications
Groufsky, Jane (2018). “A Local Motif; use of kōwhaiwhai patterns in printed textiles”. The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global. Textile Society of America's 16th Biennial Symposium. Vancouver, BC, Canada; September 19 – 23, 2018. DOI 10.32873/unl.dc.tsasp.0030
Groufsky, Jane (2019). “Threads of Inheritance: Areez Katki at Malcolm Smith Gallery”, The Pantograph Punch. First published 29 March 2019. https://www.pantograph-punch.com/post/areez-katki-bildungsroman
Groufsky, Jane (2023). “Cook & Company”, Objectspace. First published 6 April 2023. https://www.objectspace.org.nz/journal/essay-cook-company/
Groufsky, Jane. “Alwynne Crowsen, Lace Historian” in Low, A. (2022). A Triad of Safekeeping. Auckland Museum.
Groufsky, Jane. (2023) “Protecting ‘Paradise’: Anti-Nuclear Textiles in New Zealand”, TEXTILE, DOI: 10.1080/14759756.2023.2239563
Pont, D. D., Groufsky, J., & Dix, K. (2018). A Certain Style: Bruce Papas. Auckland: Published by the New Zealand Fashion Museum in collaboration with Auckland War Memorial Museum