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Caselberg Trust
The Caselberg Trust is a charitable trust in New Zealand, named in honour of Anna and John Caselberg. It was established in 2006 to purchase the Caselberg's house in Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. The house is next door to one once owned by Charles Brasch which he bequeathed to the Caselberg's and is in now in private ownership. The Trust renovated the Caselberg's house and opened it to the public in 2008. The house also includes studio space, named the Charles Brasch Studio. The trust offers creative residences and runs the Caselberg International Poetry Prize. The trust offers a number of residencies, including some in conjunction with partners: * The Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency is aimed at providing "international and Aotearoa New Zealand writers an opportunity to work on a substantial piece of creative writing and to foster connections among creative writers in Aotearoa New Zealand and internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Caselberg
Anna Margaret Frances Caselberg (née Woollaston, 1942–2004) was a New Zealand painter. Born in 1942, Caselberg was the daughter of Edith Winifred Woollaston (née Alexander) and the painter Toss Woollaston. She studied at the University of Auckland, spending a year living with Colin McCahon and his family during this time. In 1960 she married poet John Caselberg, who—12 years older than her—was friends with both her father and McCahon. Anna Caselberg worked in oils and watercolour, mostly painting landscapes, and her style is said to show the influences of Colin McCahon and her father. She exhibited with The Group in 1975. Her work is held in public collections in New Zealand, including those of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Suter Art Gallery, Hocken Collections, and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Caselberg died of cancer in late 2004, six months after her husband's death, also from cancer. The Caselberg Trust The Caselberg Trust is a charitable tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Palmer (artist)
Stanley Arthur Palmer (born 1936) is a New Zealand painter and printmaker. Biography Palmer was born near Thames in the Coromandel, New Zealand and studied at Dunedin Technical College in the late 1950s. Although he has become well known for his prints, his formative years were spent painting. In 1969 he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Art Council grant and in 1970 he quit his day job as an art teacher to become a professional printmaker and painter. Palmer lives in Mount Eden, Auckland. By the late 1970s his printmaking repertoire included woodcuts, monoprints and bamboo engravings. The scenes he portrays mainly feature New Zealand coasts with themes of colonisation, conservation, humanity and the land. Palmer has had regular and numerous one-man exhibitions at leading galleries in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. His work is represented in the national art collection housed in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and also in most other New Zealand pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artist Residencies
Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space and resources to support their artistic practice. Contemporary artist residencies are becoming increasingly thematic, with artists working together with their host in pursuit of a specific outcome related to a particular theme. Definitions History Artist groups resembling artist residencies can be traced back to at least 16th century Europe, when art academies began to emerge. In 1563 Duke of Florence Cosimo Medici and Tuscan painter Giorgio Vasari co-founded the Accademia del Disegno, which may be considered the first academy of arts. As the first iteration of an art academy, the Accademia del Disegno was the first institution to promote the idea that artists may benefit from a localised site dedicated to the advancement of their pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Amas
Michele Louise Amas (8 October 1961 – 26 December 2016) was a New Zealand actress of stage, screen, television and radio, poet and playwright. She began writing poetry at age 10 and began her professional acting career in 1980. Amas wrote and directed the 2002 short film ''Redial'' which competed at the Venice Film Festival in the same year. and her first collection of poetry, ''After the Dance'', published in 2006 was shortlisted for an Montana New Zealand Book Award and nominated for the 2008 Prize in Modern Letters. She earned a Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for her portrayal of Barbara in the 2011 play '' August: Osage County''. Biography Amas was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 8 October 1961. She was the daughter of Beth and Bruce Amas and had an older brother. Amas was brought up in Dunedin. She and attended Queen's High School, where she got inspiration to become a professional actress from her drama teacher. Amas began writing poetry when she was ten years old. She rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Le Bas
Jessica Le Bas is a Nelson-based poet from New Zealand. Background Le Bas received her MA(Hons) from the University of Auckland. Career During the Balkan Wars, Le Bas worked for the United Nations as a Training Consultant for UNPROFOR. She has worked at the Beehive in Wellington as Private Secretary to a government Minister. She took Owen Marshall’s Fiction Writing Course at Aoraki Polytechnic in 1997, and later received a writers' grant from Creative New Zealand. Le Bas has published two collections of poetry, ''Incognito'' in 2007, and ''Walking to Africa'' in 2009. In 2010, she published her first children's book, ''Staying Home: My True Diary of Survival'', under the pseudonym ‘Jesse O’. In 2021 the novel was re-released by Penguin Books New Zealand as ''Locked Down'', and was illustrated by Toby Morris. Le Bas and her novel featured at the 2021 Auckland Writers' Festival as part of the Schools' Programme. Poems by Le Bas have appeared in ''Landfall'', ''Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majella Cullinane
Majella Cullinane, born in Limerick, Ireland is an author based in New Zealand. Background Born and raised in Ireland, Cullinane became a New Zealand resident in 2008. She has a MLitt. in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and completed a PhD in Creative Practice at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago. Her doctoral advisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Liam McIlvanney. She currently lives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Cullinane draws inspiration for her work from myths and history, with her poems exploring nature and dreams, real and imagined people. Her collection ''Guarding the Flame'' takes its title from the myth surrounding Saint Bridgid’s flame in Kildare. Works * ''Guarding the Flame'' (Salmon Poetry, 2011), collection of poetry * ''The Life of De'Ath'' (Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2018), novel * ''Whisper of a Crow's Wing'' (Salmon Poetry and Otago University Press, 2018) Awards Her first novel,''The Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Harlow
Michael Harlow (born 1937) is a poet, publisher, editor and librettist. A recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (1986) and the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship (2009), he has twice been a poetry finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2018 he was awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, alongside playwright Renée and critic and curator Wystan Curnow Harlow has published 12 books of poetry and one book on writing poetry. Life Michael Harlow was born in the United States of America. He is of Greek and Ukrainian heritage. Harlow came to New Zealand in 1968. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Greek, Spanish, German and Romanian. Literary work Michael Harlow's first collection, ''Poems'', appeared in 1965. A second collection, ''Edges'', followed in 1974. In an author's note at the collection's start, Harlow writes, "A poem writes me as much as I it. A simple enough but political idea, too. I'm fairly certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Underground
Pacific Underground is a New Zealand performing arts collective, founded in 1993 in Christchurch, New Zealand, to produce contemporary performing art that reflects the group's Pacific Island heritage. In 2016 they received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Pacific Music Awards. They are the longest running Pacific contemporary performing arts organisation in New Zealand. Pacific Underground has produced plays, music, workshops and events and continues to be an active influence on performing arts culture within New Zealand. In 2018 Pacific Underground celebrated their 25th anniversary with a number of events. Background The founding members of Pacific Underground were Mishelle Muagututi'a, Oscar Kightley, Simon Small, Erolia Ifopo and Michael Hodgson supported by Tanya Muagututi'a, Pos Mavaega and Fuarosa (Losa) Luafutu-Tamati and Vic Tamati. Their first play, ''Fresh Off The Boat'', written by Oscar Kightley and Simon Small, was produced in 1993. This play was groundbreak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Reweti
Bridget Reweti (active since 2000s) is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Reweti is a member of the artist group Mata Aho Collective. Education Reweti holds a Masters in Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, the School of Māori Studies, Massey University. She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. Career Reweti works with photography and moving image. Her work explores and subverts New Zealand iconic landscapes, and issues of contemporary indigenous realities. Reweti is a member of the Mata Aho Collective, a collaboration of four Māori women artists known for their large scale textile-based installations. She has held numerous residencies in New Zealand and internationally, and her work is held in both private and public collections. Reweti was the 2018 Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School and was the 2020 Frances Hog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Caselberg
Fitzclarence Anstey John Caselberg (19 August 1927 – 16 April 2004) was a New Zealand writer. Caselberg was born at Wakefield, south of Nelson, in 1927 and educated at Nelson College from 1936 to 1944.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition (CD-ROM) His work ranged through poetry and playwriting to short stories and essays. Along with his wife, artist Anna Caselberg, he was at the centre of a thriving art and literary milieu which included his good friend and collaborator Colin McCahon, father-in-law Toss Woollaston, and writer Charles Brasch. Caselberg was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship from the University of Otago in 1961. He died in Dunedin in 2004. The Caselberg Trust The Caselberg Trust is a charitable trust in New Zealand, named in honour of Anna and John Caselberg. It was established in 2006 to purchase the Caselberg's house in Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. The house ..., a charitable trust sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Marinkovich
Lucy Marinkovich (born 1989) is a New Zealand dancer and choreographer. She is the artistic director and choreographer of Wellington-based performing arts group Borderline Arts Ensemble. Biography Marinkovich was born in Wellington and began dance lessons at the age of five with Deirdre Tarrant. Marinkovich studied contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance, graduating in 2009. While a student, she studied short courses at P.A.R.T.S in Belgium, Batsheva Dance Company in Israel and worked as a research assistant for Rosemary Martin in Ramallah, Palestine. She also concurrently studied for a bachelor's degree in English literature by distance with Massey University. Marinkovich started dancing and modelling with the World of Wearable Art competitions in 2005 and performed with the organisation for ten years, including in their performance at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2012. In 2010, Marinkovich joined Footnote Dance Company and danced with the company nationally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, located in Dunedin’s city centre, is a space that presents contemporary experimental art projects. Blue Oyster included over 1,000 artists in more than 270 projects over its first 10 years and it continues to provide a space for artists to present their work. History and operations As a not for profit organisation, the gallery serves the local and national art community as a venue for exhibiting alternative and non-commercial art work that offers an environment of criticality, support and learning to emerging and experimental artists. The space opened in 1999 after the project spaces Honeymoon Suite and Everything Incorporated closed down. The founding artists Wallace Chapman, Kate Plaistead, Emily Barr, Steve Carr, and Douglas Kelaher set up the Blue Oyster Arts Trust, and once the trust was established it took over the venue of Everything Incorporated. Blue Oyster's aim is to broaden an interest and understanding of contemporary art by “acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |