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Artists To Antarctica
The Artists to Antarctica programme, also known as the Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship and the Invited Artists Programme Antarctic Arts Fellows, was a community engagement programme run by Antarctica New Zealand, the government agency conducting New Zealand's activities in Antarctica. From the 2014/15 season, this program was replaced by The Antarctica New Zealand Community Engagement Programme. Recipients of Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship under the Artists to Antarctica Programme and the Invited Artists Programme include: Also see: * Antarctic Artists and Writers Program References New Zealand literary awards Arts organisations based in New Zealand {{NewZealand-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is an Institute set up by the Government of New Zealand in 1996 to manage its interests in Antarctica and the Ross Sea. As well as providing logistics support to a large scientific programme, it also runs bases such as Scott Base. It has run other bases in the past, such as Vanda Station. New Zealand's involvement in Antarctica began in 1923, when activities were closely connected with the United Kingdom. Close cooperation with other nations has been an important part of New Zealand's involvement in Antarctica. Since 1959 Scott Base has been New Zealand's permanent base in Antarctica. From 1965 to 1988 the person responsible for much of Scott Base development as head of the Antarctic Division of the DSIR was Bob Thomson A 1994 review recognised Antarctica as strategically important to New Zealand as a Southern Hemisphere nation. This resulted in the establishment of the New Zealand Antarctic Institute, known as Antarctica New Zealand, on 1 July 1996. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sheehan (artist)
Joe Sheehan (born 1976 in Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson, New Zealand) is a stone artist and jeweller who works primarily in pounamu (New Zealand greenstone or jade). Early life and education Sheehan has been carving since his early teens. His father is an American jade carver who emigrated to Nelson in the 1970s. Sheehan worked in his father's business, which supplied jade carvings to the tourism market in Rotorua. Sheehan studied contemporary jewellery at the Unitec Institute of Technology, where his tutors included Pauline Bern, graduating with a Diploma in Design (Jewellery) in 1996. Career Sheehan works with pounamu, which is a material of great Pounamu#Significance to Māori, significance in Māori people, Māori Culture of the Māori, culture. Some of Sheehan's works explore "the value placed on pounamu as a commodity, rather than a material of cultural importance". In others he uses pounamu in unexpected ways, for example carving ballpoint pens, a tape cassette, or a lightbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Jenkinson
Megan Lillian Jenkinson (born 1958) is a New Zealand photographer. Background Jenkinson was born in 1958 in Hamilton, New Zealand. Career Jenkinson works primarily as a photographer and is an associate professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts. In December 2005 Jenkinson traveled to the Antarctica as part of the Artists to Antarctica fellowship programme. Her photographs taken during this time we exhibited during the 2008 Photography Festival at Two Rooms Gallery and in 2007 at the Jonathan Smart Gallery in Christchurch. In 2007 Jenkinson won the Jury Award at the Wallace Art Awards with her work ''Atmospheric Optics V''. She has received the 1989 Montana Lindauer Art Award and the Graphics Prize at the 1999 Sharjah International Art Biennal. Work by Jenkinson is held in the public collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; the Sarjeant Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Aigantighe Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Farr
Gareth Vincent Farr (born 29 February 1968) is a New Zealand composer and percussionist. He has released a number of classical CDs and composed a number of works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) and Royal New Zealand Ballet. He has also performed in drag under the name Lilith LaCroix in a show called ''Drumdrag'' and has also released a CD under that name. Early life and education Farr was born in Wellington in 1968. He began his studies at the University of Auckland in musical composition, composition, orchestration and electronic music. While studying there, he performed as a member of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) and the Karlheinz Company. Farr was always available as a performer to play new works by other composers. Returning to Wellington in 1988 for further study at Victoria University of Wellington, he gained note for his compositions, at this time becoming increasingly excited with exploring the Indonesian gamelan. He played percussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Dawson
Francis Neil Dawson (born 6 November 1948) is a New Zealand sculptor, best known for his large-scale civic pieces crafted from aluminium and stainless steel, often made using a lattice of natural forms which between them form a geometric whole. Early life Dawson was born in Christchurch in 1948. The son of Methodist minister John Brent Dawson and his wife Florence Emily (), he grew up in Masterton, Petone, and Hastings, and received his secondary education at Hastings Boys' High School where he was taught by Russ Williams. While in the fourth form, Dawson climbed onto the assembly hall and painted ''April Fool'' in large white letters on the roof. This gave him front page exposure in the '' Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune'' and he regards this as the "beginning of iscareer in public art." Dawson attended the University of Canterbury (1966–1969) where he studied under Tom Taylor and Eric Doudney. He gained a Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons) and then spent a year at teachers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Campbell
Joyce may refer to: People * Joyce (name), list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Joyce, (born 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter * James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish modernist writer Places * Joyce, Washington, an unincorporated community in the United States * Mount Joyce, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Joyce Peak, Ross Island, off the coast of Victoria Land * Joyce Glacier, Victoria Land * Lake Joyce, Victoria Land * Joyce Country, a region in counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland * 5418 Joyce, a main-belt asteroid Business * Joyce, house brand of Hong Kong company Joyce Boutique * JB Joyce & Co, an English clockmaker * Joyces 365, a supermarket chain based in Galway, Ireland * Amstrad PCW personal computer, sold under license in Europe as the "Joyce" Other uses * Hurricane Joyce (other), multiple storms * USS ''Joyce'' (DE-317), a destroyer escort that served in World War II * Joyce (programming language) * Joyce Theater, in the Manhattan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Plug
Clare may refer to: Places Antarctica * Clare Range, a mountain range in Victoria Land Australia * Clare, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley * Clare Valley, South Australia Canada * Clare (electoral district), an electoral district * Clare, Nova Scotia, a municipal district Republic of Ireland * County Clare, one of the 32 counties of Ireland * Clare, County Westmeath, a townland in Killare civil parish, barony of Rathconrath * Clare Island, County Mayo * Clarecastle, a village in County Clare * Clare (Dáil constituency) (since 1921) * Clare (UK Parliament constituency) (1801–1885) * Clare (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (until 1800) * River Clare, County Galway South Africa *Clare, Mpumalanga, a town in Mpumalanga province United Kingdom * Clare, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland * Clare (Ballymore), a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland * Clare, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland * Clare, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walsh (artist)
John Walsh is a painter who was born in 1954 in Tolaga Bay, New Zealand. He is of Aitanga a Hauiti/ New Zealand Irish descent. Although he attended Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch between 1973 and 1974, he is largely a self-taught artist. He now lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. His work Although John Walsh started painting later in life, he has managed to create a name for himself on the New Zealand art scene. His first solo exhibition was the result of his appointment of curator at the National Art Gallery in Wellington (now known as Te Papa Tongarewa Museum). Since then, he continues to exhibit regularly in different galleries around New Zealand and has also had the opportunity to show his work abroad in Sydney, Australia and Noumea, New Caledonia. John Walsh started with figurative imagery, portraying people he knew around the East Coast region. His otherworldly landscapes and figures would take another few years before emerging as a constant in his paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Duder
Tessa Duder (née Staveley, born 13 November 1940) is a New Zealand author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction, and a former swimmer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. As a writer, she is primarily known for her ''Alex'' quartet and long-term advocacy for New Zealand children's literature. As an editor, she has also published a number of anthologies. Early life and family Duder was born Tessa Staveley in Auckland on 13 November 1940, the daughter of John Staveley, a doctor and pioneer of blood transfusion in New Zealand who was later knighted, and Elvira Staveley (née Wycherley), a cellist. She was educated at the Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, and went on to study at Auckland University College in 1958, later returned to the University of Auckland between 1982 and 1984. After leaving school, Staveley worked as a journalist for the ''Auckland Star'' from 1959 to 1964, before travellin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Van Hout
Ronnie van Hout (born 22 January 1962) is a New Zealand artist, living in Melbourne, Australia. He works across a wide variety of media including sculpture, video, painting, photography, embroidery, and sound recordings. Early life and education Born in Christchurch on 22 January 1962, van Hout attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury between 1980 and 1982, where he majored in film. In 1999, he gained a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University, Melbourne. Exhibitions Van Hout has exhibited extensively, in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, at private and public galleries. Major solo shows *2012 ''Ronnie van Hout: I've Seen Things'', The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt *2011 ''Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There'', Christchurch Art Gallery *2004 ''Ronnie van Hout: I've Abandoned Me'', Dunedin Public Art Gallery and City Gallery Wellington *2003 ''No Exit, Part 2'', Physics Room, Christchurch Public sculptures Van Hout has also produced a numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Jones (New Zealand Author)
Lloyd David Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author. His novel ''Mister Pip'' (2006) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Early life, education and family Jones was born in Lower Hutt in 1955, and attended Hutt Valley High School and Victoria University of Wellington. Despite fulfilling the requirements of a political science degree, Jones was unable to graduate from university at the time due to library fines owing; he eventually completed his course of study and graduated in 2007. He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Victoria University in May 2009. Jones's older brother is property investor and former politician Sir Bob Jones. He also has three older sisters. Jones' partner is Australian writer Carrie Tiffany. He has two sons and a daughter. One of his sons, Avi Duckor-Jones, was the winner of the first season of reality television show Survivor NZ in 2017. His other son, Sam Duckor-Jones, is an artist and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Webb
Boyd Webb (born 1947) is a New Zealand-born visual artist who works in the United Kingdom, mainly using the medium of photography although he has also produced sculpture and film. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1988. He has had solo shows at venues including the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Life He was born in New Zealand in 1947 and attended at the Ilam School of Art in Christchurch, then came to the UK and studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London from 1972 to 1975. He currently lives and works in Brighton, East Sussex, UK. Art Initially he worked as a sculptor, making fibreglass forms. However he soon switched to photography, developing a practice based around constructing tableaux which he then photographs. His work has been cited as a major influence on the famous, long-running advertising campaigns by Silk Cut and Benson and Hedges. Holly Arden described his art thus: "Many of them are shot in studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
