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The Dowse Art Museum
The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opening in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, The Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities. The building was completely remodelled in 2013."The New Dowse Art Museum / Athfield Architects" 19 September 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 7 November 2013. http://www.archdaily.com/?p=428705 The Dowse's holdings generally focus on New Zealand artists of both national and local significance. History The Dowse Art Museum is named after Mayor Percy and Mayoress Mary Dowse, both of whom died prior to the museum opening. Percy Dowse served as the mayor of Hutt City from 1950 to 1970. He was a firm believer in the principle of having physical, social, and cultural facilities in modern cities and he initiated a building phase in the city that saw the construction of landmark buildings such as the War Memorial Library, the Lower Hutt Town Hall, and the Ewen Bridge. He championed the addition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Walters
Gordon Frederick Walters (24 September 1919 – 5 November 1995) was a Wellington-born artist and graphic designer who is significant to New Zealand culture due to his representation of New Zealand in his Modern Abstract artworks. Education Gordon Walters was born and raised in Wellington, where he went to Miramar South School and Rongotai College. From 1935 to 1939 he studied as a commercial artist at Wellington Technical College under Frederick V. Ellis. Early influence and experiences Walters applied to join the army during World War II but was turned down due to medical problems. He took up a job in the Ministry of Supply doing illustrations. Walters traveled to Australia in 1946 and then visited photographer and painter Theo Schoon in South Canterbury, who was photographing Māori rock art at Opihi River. This visit was central to Walters work as he began using Māori cultural themes in his painting. In 1950 Walters moved to Europe where he became influenced by Piet M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoichi Aoki
is a Japanese photographer and creator of the magazines ''STREET,'' ''TUNE,'' and ''Fruits (magazine), FRUiTS.'' He also subsequently created the ''Fruits'' and ''Fresh Fruits'' (collections of Japanese street fashion) photo-books as a way of offering his photos to the foreign market. Life and work Aoki was born in Tokyo. He began documenting street fashion in Tokyo's fashionable Harajuku area in the mid 1990s when he noticed a marked change in the way young people were dressing. Rather than following European and American trends, people were customising elements of traditional Japanese dress—kimono, obi (sash), obi sashes and geta (footwear), geta sandals—and combining them with handmade, secondhand and alternative designer fashion in an innovative DIY approach to dressing. In 1997, Aoki founded the monthly magazine ''FRUiTS,'' now a cult fanzine with an international following, to record and celebrate the freshness of fashion in Harajuku. Publications Magazines * ''STREET' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruits (magazine)
''Fruits'' (stylized "FRUiTS") was a monthly Japanese street fashion magazine founded in 1997 by photographer Shoichi Aoki. Though FRUiTS covered styles found throughout Tokyo, it is associated most closely with the fashion subcultures found in Tokyo's Harajuku, Harajuku district. The magazine primarily focused on individual styles found outside the fashion-industry mainstream, as well as subcultures specific to Japan, such as Lolita fashion, lolita and ganguro, and local interpretations of larger subcultures like Punk fashion, punk and Goth subculture, goth. Content FRUiTS featured a simple layout, with the bulk of the magazine made up of single full-page photographs accompanied by a brief profile of the photographed person, which included their age, occupation, and a description of what brands they were wearing (if applicable), as well as their self-described "point of fashion" (style inspiration). Most issues included only a couple of advertisements, and typically only for loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Hutt Posse
Upper Hutt Posse (UHP) is a musical band in Aotearoa. The progenitors of hip hop music in the South Pacific originally formed as a four-piece reggae group in 1985, the Posse emerged at the forefront of the local response to emerging rap culture. Their unique fusion of rap and reggae (in both English and Māori languages) has been an inspirational injection into the national music scene, and a powerful vehicle for their revolutionary socio-political perspectives. Influenced primarily by socio-politically conscious reggae and rap music, from Bob Marley to Gil Scott-Heron to Public Enemy. The band name is derived from Upper Hutt, the part of Wellington in which they formed. History UHP formed as a four-piece reggae band in 1985. Since their inception, Dean Hapeta (also known as D Word or Te Kupu) and the Posse have been fighting racial injustice through their music. In 1988 they released the first rap record and music-video in Aotearoa (NZ) ''E Tū'', through Jayrem Records. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DLT (musician)
DLT, born Darryl Thomson, is a New Zealand DJ, music producer, composer and artist. He was born in Maraenui, New Zealand. Music career DLT was inspired by an article about rap and breakdancing in ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine when he was 16 years of age; he moved to Wellington in the 1980s and established himself as a Graffiti, graffiti artist known as 'SLICK' (1983) before co-founding Hip hop music, hip hop group Upper Hutt Posse. The Posse released New Zealand's first hip hop record, E Tū, in 1988 and then moved to Auckland. Upper Hutt Posse signed to Murray Cammick's label, Southside Records, and released the album ''Against The Flow'' in 1989. Leaving the Upper Hutt Posse, DLT released two solo albums. The first, ''The True School'', contained the single "Chains (DLT song), Chains", which was the List of number-one singles from the 1990s (New Zealand), number one single in New Zealand for five weeks in 1996 and featured the vocals of Che Fu. In the 1997 New Zealand Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary McLeod
Rosemary Margaret McLeod (born December 1949) is a New Zealand writer, journalist, cartoonist and columnist. Career McLeod began her career as a journalist in 1970, working for The Sunday Times in Wellington before moving to Eve magazine, where she was staff feature writer and fashion columnist She joined The Dominion in 1972, followed by stints at the NZBC as a radio reporter and at TV One as a news journalist. Her profile rose with a longstanding, self-illustrated column for the ''New Zealand Listener'', which ran from the early 1970s to 1988. During a year in Sydney in 1976 as a contract sitcom writer with the ABC, McLeod worked on a comedy series with feminist themes, Who Do You Think You Are. Also in that year, she won the PEN Best First Book of Prose award for her self-illustrated satirical novel A Girl Like I. On her return to New Zealand she worked as script editor for Joe and Koro, also devising an early TVNZ sitcom called All Things Being Equal. Other television w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Robinson (glass Artist)
Ann Robinson (born 1944) is a New Zealand studio glass artist who is internationally renowned for her glass casting work. Robinson is a recipient of the ONZM (2001) and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Glass Art Society (2006), and is a Laureate of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand (2006). Training and early career Robinson first attended the Elam School of Fine Arts in the late 1960s majoring in sculpture – with bronze casting her specialisation, using the lost-wax casting (otherwise known as ''cire perdue'') process. Robinson left before graduating but returned after a 15-year break. When she returned in the late 1970s she studied glass blowing which was then available. During this time she also began experimenting in lost-wax casting with glass. After graduating from Elam in 1980, Robinson joined glass artists John Croucher and Garry Nash (ONZM) at Sunbeam Glass Works in Auckland. During her nine years with the studio glass blowing Robinson continued experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Preston (jeweller)
Alan Chris Preston (born 1941) is a New Zealand jeweller. His work has been exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, and is held in major public collections in New Zealand. Early life Born in Te Awamutu in 1941, Preston completed a Master of Science degree in psychology at the University of Canterbury in 1967, and took jewellery classes at the Camden Institute, London, in 1973. Fingers gallery In 1974, after a stint as a guest artist at Brown's Mill Market, New Zealand's first craft co-operative, in Auckland, Preston approached jewellers Ruth Baird, Roy Mason, Margaret Philips and Michael Ayling to open a jewellery shop called Fingers on Auckland's Lorne Street. Fingers, which moved to Kitchener Street, its current location, in 1987, is now New Zealand's longest-running contemporary jewellery gallery. Career and style After a 1979 trip to Fiji, Preston began to incorporate forms and materials from Pacific adornment, including the use of shell, coconut shell and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rayner
Paul Rayner (born 1959) is an English-New Zealand ceramicist known for his work creating pop culture figures in the tradition of Toby jugs and Staffordshire figurines. Born in Luton, England, Rayner moved to New Zealand as a teenager. After working at the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, he developed an interest in art. Rayner did a Bachelor of Fine Arts focused on painting at the University of Auckland before working in New Zealand museums and art galleries while developing his ceramics. After leaving the Sarjeant Gallery in 2006, Paul has run a gallery and often collaborates with, his brother Mark Rayner. Works *''Ken & Ken (the Topp Twins)'' 2011 is held by Te Papa *''Caring is our strength; 'The lover of swans' '' was poster for the Gay Hero Art Exhibition 1992 *''Carmen'' 2004, is held by the Dowse Art Museum Exhibitions *2008 ID Me, Suter Gallery, Nelson *2008 Magic of Mud, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt *2004 House of Dowse, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt *2001 Wangan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Rupe
Carmen Rupe (10 October 1936 – 14 December 2011), was a New Zealand drag performer, brothel keeper, anti-discrimination activist, would-be politician and HIV/AIDS activist. Carmen Rupe was New Zealand's first drag queen to reach celebrity status. She was a trans woman. Life Born in Taumarunui, Rupe had twelve siblings. Her mother was of Ngāti Hāua and Ngāti Heke-a-Wai descent, while her father was of Ngāti Maniapoto. She relocated to the urban centres of Auckland and Wellington. After doing drag performances while doing compulsory military training and periods working as a nurse and waiter, Rupe moved to Sydney's Kings Cross in the late 1950s. In the 1970s, she became notorious for the sexually tolerant venues she established in Wellington, and was renowned as a matriarchal figure among local trans communities. Taking the name of the Romani Flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya, Rupe became Australia's first Māori drag performer and from that time on lived as a woman. A whol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe
Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe (born 1952) is a New Zealand artist, painter and author. She is of Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa and Te Atiawa descent. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the BNZ Art Collection, the Dowse Art Gallery and the University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ... Art Collection. References 1952 births Living people New Zealand women artists New Zealand contemporary artists Elam Art School alumni People from Ōtaki, New Zealand {{NewZealand-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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