Dunedin-born mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne had a brilliant career from the early 1970s, singing on many of the world’s great stages – Barcelona, Covent Garden, Bayreuth (including Patrice Chéreau’s Ring cycle alongside Donald McIntyre), San Francisco, Geneva, and La Scala in Milan.
Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
New Zealand artist
Irish landscape and portrait artist, art teacher, and writer
American painter
Irish artist, naturalist, and astronomer
Energetic and talented, Margaret Bullock was a pioneer in several respects. As a journalist and parliamentary correspondent she gained entrance into a predominantly male profession. She also played a pivotal role in the nineteenth century women’s movement at both local and national levels.
A legend in New Zealand art circles, she established a foundation to finance artists’ scholarships, to be funded from the sale of art in her estate. Her work is represented in both New Zealand and overseas public and private collections.
New Zealand painter
Art critics and historians have identified Frances Hunt as an able practitioner of the conservative tradition of landscape painting, which was popular in Auckland in the 1920s and 1930s.