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List Of New Zealand Artists
The following is a list of New Zealand artists. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z See also *List of New Zealand women artists This is a list of women artists who were born in New Zealand or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z See also * List ... * New Zealand art References {{Artists by nationality New Zealand Artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Andrew (photographer)
Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived in Samoa from 1891 until his death in 1939. Andrew took photographs that are of significant historical and cultural value including the recording on camera of key events in Samoa's colonial era such as the Mau movement, the volcanic eruption of Mt Matavanu (1905–1911) and the funeral of writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Many of his surviving images are held in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and include landscapes and studio portraits of Samoans that went beyond the colonial stereotypes of the time. Andrew was born in Takapuna, a suburb in Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand. He worked as a photographer in Napier. He later opened a studio in Auckland which was destroyed by fire. In 1891, he went to Samoa where he worked with two other New Zealand photographers, Alfred John Tattersall and John Davis. He died in Apia, the capital of Samoa. Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsley Baird
Kingsley Baird is a Wellington-based artist and designer whose commissions include the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the National War Memorial of New Zealand and Te Korowai Rangimarie – Cloak of Peace – at Nagasaki Peace Park. His work – primarily in sculpture – is concerned mostly with themes of memory and remembrance, loss and reconciliation, and cultural identity. It comprises collaborative landscape and urban design projects, installation art, video art and painting, as well as community projects. His commissions include the Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra, and the kererū sculpture in Tawa village. Baird holds a Master of Fine Art degree from RMIT, Melbourne, and a Diploma in Arts from Victoria University of Wellington. He is currently a practising artist and designer, and Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whero O Te Rangi Bailey
Whero O Te Rangi Bailey (1935 – 1 December 2016; also known as Poppy) was a New Zealand Māori weaver and textile artist. She was a teacher at New Plymouth Girls' High School as well as a counsellor and a member of the Māori Women's Welfare League. Bailey was a member of Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa. In 2000, she was awarded the Queen's Service Order. Her master weaver status was formally acknowledged when she was appointed to the Kāhui Whiritoi group of Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa. A large outdoor mural depicting Bailey can be found in Christchurch. Biography Bailey was brought up in Parihaka. She was employed from 1968 to 1997 as a high school teacher with much of her career spent at the New Plymouth Girls' High School. Bailey was also a councillor for over 30 years. She was a member of the Maori Women's Welfare League and was an advocate for Māori arts, language, culture, and history, travelling New Zealand to pass on her knowledge and expertise. In June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Bailey (artist)
Chris Bailey (born 1965) is a Māori sculptor and carver. Bailey studied Māori language and Māori material culture at the University of Auckland under Dante Bonica. He lives and works on Waiheke Island. Gravitating towards the harder stones of basalt and granite Bailey developed form driven stone works in a larger scale while also developing his carving skills working in totara alongside carvers of Piritahi Marae on Waiheke Island. Recognition Bailey has exhibited both nationally and internationally, winning the 2014 Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award for his ''Bondi Points'' at the Bondi Beach, Sculpture by the Sea. He has received financial support from Creative New Zealand to produce works. In 2010, ''Ringa Whao'' a documentary about Bailey's practice was produced by Rongo Productions. In 2011, he completed a public commission of carved pou situated outside Britomart Transport Centre in Auckland. Recognised for starting the pou (carved timber pallisade post) mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Badcock (artist)
John Badcock (born September 15, 1952, in Queenstown) is a New Zealand (Kiwi) artist, based in Geraldine, South Canterbury. He was born in Queenstown, New Zealand. Badcock comes from an artistic family. His father, Douglas Badcock, and two brothers, Brian and David, are also painters. While the other family members specialize in landscape painting, John has become more renowned for portraiture. His art is described as Expressionist, and has been compared to works by artists such as Otto Dix. His work has encompassed many media – oils, watercolours, charcoals and acrylics. He has been a professional artist for more than three decades. His accolades include solo exhibitions throughout New Zealand since 1985, and more recently the exhibiting of ''The Last Supper'' at the ChristChurch Cathedral. He has been a finalist in the New Zealand Portrait Awards in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006, and the subject of two New Zealand Art Films (''John Badcock'' – a Film by Brian High, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Sabio Azadi
Nabil Sabio Azadi (); fa, نبیل سابیو آزادی; born 12 October 1991) is an Iranian-New Zealand artist who is based in Brisbane, Australia. He is known primarily for his book, ''For You The Traveller'', a hand-bound travel guide. Early life and career Azadi was born in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, New Zealand on 12 October 1991 to Iranian Baháʼí parents. Ehsan Azadi, an Industrial Designer, and Simin Azadi had fled from their country to Venezuela in 1979 just prior to the Iranian Revolution. Eventually they settled in suburban Auckland where Azadi was raised with an older brother (Riaz Azadi) and sister (Roya Alma Azadi). By age 13 he was working as a photographer for local modeling agencies and saved his money to travel alone for the first time, "playing isLondon-based rotheroff isparents so ecould spend more time in Paris on isown." He continued travelling around the world on his own from this age – particularly to Paris where he would later create his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raewyn Atkinson
Raewyn Atkinson (born 1955) is a New Zealand ceramicist. She completed a Diploma in Early Childhood Education at the Palmerston North Teachers College in 1975 and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in 1998. Atkinson travelled to Antarctica in 2000 as an Antarctic Arts Fellow under the Artists in Antarctica Programme. She returned to Antarctica independently in 2003. She was awarded the premier prize in the Portage Ceramic Awards in 2004, for works inspired by her time in the Antarctic. She won the Portage premier award again in 2015, and both Portage winning works were exhibited at Te Uru in the survey exhibition ''Portage 20/20''. She was then invited to take the role of judge for the 2021 Portage Ceramic Awards. Atkinson's work is held in several collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Ashken
Tanya Ashken (born 1939 in London, England) is a New Zealand silversmith and sculptor. She was one of a number of European-trained jewellers who came to New Zealand in the 1960s and transformed contemporary jewellery in that country, including Jens Hoyer Hansen, Kobi Bosshard and Gunter Taemmler. Ashken attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where she was awarded a diploma in silversmithing in 1960, and also studied sculpture at the Atelier de Del Debbio in Paris the following year. She began making jewellery in semi-precious materials in 1962. She does not draw a distinction between her jewellery and her sculpture: “her jewellery is small sculpture that can be worn.” Ashken married New Zealand artist John Drawbridge (1930–2005) in 1960 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1963. In 1966 her work was included in ''Recent New Zealand Sculpture'' at the Auckland City Art Gallery. In 1967 Ashken was the second artist to be awarded the Frances Hodgkins Fellowshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina Arndt
Hermina "Mina" Arndt (18 April 1885 – 22 December 1926) was a New Zealand artist. Biography Arndt was born at Thurlby Domain, near Queenstown, New Zealand, Queenstown on 18 April 1885, the third daughter of Jewish parents Maria and Herman Arndt. Hr father died shortly before her birth, and her mother moved the family to Dunedin where Mina attended Otago Girls' High School. Later in Wellington, she attended art classes at the technical college before embarking for Europe. In 1906, Arndt was living in London studying under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art in Kensington. While there she met German printmaker Hermann Struck, who invited her to study etching with him in Berlin, which was considered an honour as he rarely took pupils. Soon after, in 1907, Arndt became involved with the Newlyn School in Cornwall and worked with Stanhope Forbes, Laura Knight, Laura and Harold Knight (artist), Harold Knight. She returned to Berlin, living with her sisters and in 1911 renting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Archdall
Esther Archdall (1916–1999) was a New Zealand textile artist. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Christchurch Art Gallery. Biography Archdall was born in North Canterbury and studied painting at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts The Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury was founded in 1882 as the Canterbury College School of Art. The school became a full department of the university in the 1950s, and was the first department to move to the suburban Ilam .... She also trained as a teacher. In 1964 she received an Arts Council grant to study in Scandinavia and Britain. She later became the District Arts and Crafts Advisor for schools in the Canterbury area, retiring from the position in 1977. In 1980 Archdall studied tapestry weaving at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and in 1990 studied at the Chisholm Institute, Melbourne. References 1916 births 1999 deaths 20th-century New Zealand women artists 20th-century women te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reweti Arapere
Reweti Arapare is a New Zealand illustrator, sculptor and painter. Arapare was born in Tauranga. He studied at Toioho ki Āpiti, Massey University's school of Māori visual arts, and graduated with a masters in 2009. After graduating he was awarded a residency at Queen Elizabeth College by the Ministry of Education. His first solo exhibition was ''Te Poho o Reweti'' at Bowen Gallery in Wellington. This was followed by a second solo exhibition in 2013 entitled ''Rakau Matarau'' at Enjoy Gallery. He was one of seven contemporary artists included in the exhibition ''Tākiri: An Unfurling'' at the New Zealand Maritime Museum from 2019 to 2020. This work was part of the Tuia 250 commemoration and received funding from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board Te Puna Tahua. His work was also included in Toi Tū Toi Ora, at Auckland Art Gallery. This was the largest exhibition of Māori artists held at the gallery since 1989. Influences on his art have been te reo and Te Ao Māori and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
