Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor Poverty with only a single 1939

with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them

all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail

Sam and Dave are on a mission

our narrator collects their stories and the saga of these three unlikely allies begins to come together

he shares experiences that range from diving with harp seals under the sea ice of the Gulf of St Lawrence to following the legendary ‘ sardine run’ along South Africa’ s Wild Coast

Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor Poverty with only a single 1939Mervyn Taylor wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in the New Zealand art and literature of the period. Between 1956 and 1964 he created twelve murals for major new government and civic buildings erected in that era of great economic prosperity, during which New Zealand first began to