Beatrice Wood
As a female artist in the male-centric Dadaist movement, Wood posed a conundrum, resisting the labels of “female muse” and “feminist artist.”
Category Archives: Visual Art
Continue reading
Clara Tice
Clara Tice is known as the “Queen of Greenwich Village” due to the role her erotic and revolutionary illustrations played in the Bohemian/modernist scene of Greenwich Village during the 1910s and 1920s. Her illustrations, many of which depicted nude women and animals, simultaneously caused controversy and were celebrated. Tice exercised her artistic ability in all of the careers she pursued throughout her life, ranging from set designer to children’s book editor.
Mina Arndt
Artist whose work is represented in private collections and galleries in New Zealand and in galleries in England, Australia and France.
Kate Sperrey
Acclaimed as ‘one of the best portrait painters New Zealand has produced.’
Annette Pearse
Curator and director of Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Elizabeth Kelly
As an artist she was extremely self-critical, maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, but she was generous in her help to young artists. Although well regarded as a landscape painter, her major contribution to New Zealand art lies in the way she revitalised formal portraiture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Elsie Reeve
New Zealand jeweller
Maud Sherwood
The limitless decorative possibilities in Maud Sherwood’s work – vivid colours dashed onto the paper in broad sweeps, the assured linear qualities either loosely or tightly structured – reflected her own ‘vital and attractive’ personality.
Briar Gardner
New Zealand potter
Pat Perrin
New Zealand potter