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Mark Colin Braunias (20 August 1955 – 17 December 2024) was a New Zealand semi-abstract painter who experimented with quilt making and glass blowing. He won the $25,000 Parkin Drawing Prize (2021) and two Wallace Art awards, and his work is held in important national art collections including Te Papa Museum, Christchurch Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Sarjeant Art Gallery.
Eleanor Mary Hughes (née Waymouth), (3 April 1882 – 1959) was a New Zealand landscape artist who mostly painted in watercolours. [1] She settled and worked in Britain and became an active member of the Newlyn School of artists and the nearby Lamorna artists colony.
In the 1970s, she designed for ballet: in 1973, costumes for Coppélia for the Christchurch Town Hall opening festival; and then in 1976, sets for the Southern Ballet's Coppélia. [4] From 1948, Dukes exhibited at the Canterbury Society of Arts. In 1950, she exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.
At the beginning of 1981 the director of the Robert McDougal Art Gallery in Christchurch Rodney Wilson left the gallery and the job was passed on to John Coley. Wilson, as a challenge to the incoming director noted that ‘Christchurch deserves a bigger and better gallery than it has - it deserves the sort of programme that would result from the provision of more gallery space and spaces ...
1964 also saw the formation of 20/20 Vision, a loose grouping of Canterbury artists set up by artist John Coley and art school lecturer Tom Taylor.The group intended to liven up the art scene through exhibitions, demonstrations and talks around current exhibitions on show in the city [11] alongside general hilarity such as the founding in 1966 of the 20/20 Vision Decimal Milk Token Advisory ...
Hammond started to exhibit his works in 1980, [5] and went back to painting on a full-time basis one year later. [10] His first solo exhibition was at the Brooke Gifford Gallery in Christchurch in 1982. [11] In March 1987 he showed for the first time at the Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington, an exhibition followed by over 20 others. [5]
Charles Ginner (1878–1952) – French-born painter, member of Camden Town Group; Spencer Gore (1878–1914) – British painter who was first president of the Camden Town Group; Augustus John (1878–1961) – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher; Louis Frederick Roslyn (1878–1940) – English sculptor
Ida Carey (1891–1982) – painter and art teacher; Steve Carr – video artist, sculptor and photographer; Len Castle (1924–2011) – potter; Ruth Castle (born 1931) – weaver; Tim Chadwick (1962–2010) – painter and mixed media artist; Vera Chapman (1885–1953) – painter; Chris Charteris (born 1966) – jeweller