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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.
City Colleges is an Irish provider of professional and academic education, based in Dublin. The institution runs degree and diploma courses in various professional fields such as in accounting ( Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ), business, computing, professional law, psychology, in Dublin city centre and Dundrum .
Mary Harriet "Mainie" Jellett (29 April 1897 – 16 February 1944) was an Irish painter whose Decoration (1923) was among the first abstract paintings shown in Ireland when it was exhibited at the Society of Dublin Painters Group Show in 1923. She was a strong promoter and defender of modern art in her country, and her artworks are present in ...
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 ...
The Group was an informal but influential art association formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1927. Initially begun by ex-students from Canterbury College of Art , its aim was to provide a freer, more experimental alternative to the academic salon painting exhibitions of the Canterbury Society of Arts .
Risingholme, c. 1870 Frankel was born in Christchurch on 8 October 1902. She was the middle of three children of engineer Frederick Anderson and his wife Phoebe. [1] [2] Her grandfather, John Anderson (1820–1897), founded an engineering business, and two uncles, Andrew (1851–1927) and John (1849–1934), were prominent engineers.
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Rata Alice Lovell-Smith (née Bird, 1894–1969) was a New Zealand artist [1] from Christchurch. Lovell-Smith trained at the Christchurch College School of Arts and then taught there from 1924 to 1945. [2] [3]