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Elizabeth Thomson (artist)
Elizabeth Thomson (born 17 October 1955) is a New Zealand artist. Background Thomson was born 1955 in Titirangi, Auckland. She graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1988 with a Master of Fine Arts. Thomson is based in Wellington. Career Thomson is a painter and sculptor utilising botanical, entomological or molecular forms and incorporating them into abstract geometric compositions. She uses various tools and mediums to create her works, including sculpture and miniatures. In 1998, Thomson won the Paramount Award in the Wallace Arts Awards with her piece 'Southern Cross Paterre'. In 1987 and 1989 she received grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand. Thomson is represented by Page Blackie Gallery. Works by Thomson are held in the public collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titirangi
Titirangi is a suburb of West Auckland in the Waitākere Ranges local board area of the city of Auckland in northern New Zealand. It is an affluent, residential suburb located 13 kilometres (8 miles) to the southwest of the Auckland city centre, at the southern end of the Waitākere Ranges. In the Māori language "Titirangi" means "long streaks of cloud in the sky", but this is often given as "fringe of heaven". History In the mid-19th century, the Manukau Harbour shoreline was primarily used for kauri logging. In December 1855, John Bishop and Thomas Canty acquired 227 acres of land from John Langford, a land dealer who acquired the area from a Crown grant. Most of the kauri forest was harvested for wood by the early settlers. The first landowner at Titirangi was John Kelly, who bought 103 acres in 1848. Most of Titirangi and the surrounding area developed as farmland in the 1860s. For communities in the south of Titirangi, most contact to the outside world was through docks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elam School Of Fine Arts
The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded by John Edward Elam, is part of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland. Students study degrees in fine art with an emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach. The school is located across three buildings, the Mondrian building, Building 431 (or the "Main" fine arts building), and Elam B, which includes the studios for postgraduate and doctoral students on Princes Street, in central Auckland, New Zealand. History The school was founded in 1890 by Elam, and incorporated a School of Design which had been established and maintained for 11 years by Sir Logan Campbell. Edward William Payton was the first director, retiring in 1924 after 35 years. Archie Fisher was appointed principal in 1924 and was instrumental in the school's inclusion within the University of Auckland in 1950. A fire in 1949, which destroyed the school and library, was the catalyst, as well as the loss of pre-1950 administrative records, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batocera Longhorns 1 Thompson MRD
''Batocera'' is a genus of the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae, close to the genus ''Rosenbergia''. List of the described species with their distribution * ''Batocera aeneonigra'' Thomson, 1859 New Guinea, Moluccas, Timor and Key Islands. * '' Batocera ammiralis'' Breuning, 1947 Admiralty Islands. * ''Batocera andamana'' Thomson, 1878 Andaman Islands. Common. * '' Batocera armata'' (Olivier, 1800) Moluccas, New Guinea. * ''Batocera boisduvali'' (Hope, 1839) Australia. * ''Batocera breuningi'' Gilmour & Dibb, 1948 Tonkin. Very rare. * '' Batocera browni'' Bates, 1877 New Hanover, New Ireland, Duke of York Island. Very rare. * ''Batocera bruyni'' Lansborough, 1880 Sangihe. * '' Batocera celebiana'' Thomson, 1858 Celebes, Moluccas, Java, Sanihe. Very common. * '' Batocera celebiana'' ssp. ''pierrotae'' Rigout, 1994 * '' Batocera cinnamonea'' Pascoe, 1866 Sula Islands. * '' Batocera davidis'' Fairmaire, 1878 Formosa (Taiwan), China, Yunnan, Tonkin. * ''Batocera enganensis'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Art Awards
The annual Wallace Art Awards are the largest and longest-running art awards of their type in New Zealand. They were established by James Wallace in 1992. Awards are made for contemporary painting, sculpture and photography and are run by the James Wallace Charitable Arts Trust. The 2018 awards were presented by the Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy at the Pah Homestead, Auckland on 3 September 2018. The awards were cancelled in 2021 with a statement on their website saying: "The Trust is currently refreshing our strategic plan and reviewing the awards will form part of this work." Paramount Award * 1992 Mark Braunias * 1993 Jeff Brown * 1994 Bill Hammond * 1995 Fatu Feu'u * 1996 Jenny Dolezel * 1997 Peter Stichbury * 1998 Elizabeth Thomson * 1999 Bing Dawe * 2000 Gregor Kregar * 2001 Peter Gibson Smith * 2002 Judy Millar * 2003 Jeffrey Harris * 2004 Jim Speers * 2005 Sara Hughes * * 2006 Rohan Wealleans * 2007 James Robinson * 2008 Richard Lewer * 2009 Marcus Williams and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Council Of New Zealand
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally. Its funding consists of approximately 30% central government funding and the remaining amount from the Lotteries Commission. In 2014/15, the Arts Council invested a record $43.6 million in New Zealand arts and arts organisations. Funding is available for artists, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds projects and organisations across many art-forms, including theatre, dance, music, literature, visual art, craft object art, Māori arts, Pacific arts, Inter-arts and Multi-disciplinary. Funding Creative New Zealand funding is distributed under four broad funding programmes: * Investment programmes * Grants and special opportunities * Creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring from mother Earth here in New Zealand". Usually known as Te Papa (Māori for "the treasure box"), it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery. An average of more than 1.5 million people visit every year, making it the 17th-most-visited art gallery in the world. Te Papa's philosophy emphasises the living face behind its cultural treasures, many of which retain deep ancestral links to the indigenous Māori people. History Colonial Museum The first predecessor to Te Papa was the ''Colonial Museum'', founded in 1865, with Sir James Hector as founding director. The Museum was built on Museum Street, roughly in the location of the present day Defence House Office Building. The muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions. Set below the hilltop Albert Park, Auckland, Albert Park in the central-city area of Auckland, the gallery was established in 1888 as the first permanent art gallery in New Zealand. The building originally housed both the Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland public library, and opened with collections donated by benefactors Governor Sir George Grey and James Tannock Mackelvie. This was the second public art gallery in New Zealand, after the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, which opened three years earlier in 1884. Wellington's New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts opened in 1892 and a Wellington Public Library in 1893. In 2009, it was announced that the museum received a donation from American businessman Julian Robertson, valued at over $100 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory O'Brien
Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor. Life Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckland. His work has appeared in ''Islands'', ''Landfall'', ''Sport'', ''Meanjin'' and ''Scripsi''. He lives in Wellington. Awards and honours * 1988 Sargeson Fellowship * 1995 Victoria University Writing Fellow * 1997 Landfall Essay Competition * 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry * 2005 LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award * 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Reference and Anthology * 2012 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement In the 2014 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2014 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrati ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Auckland
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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