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New Vision Gallery
New Vision Gallery was a contemporary craft and art gallery operating in Auckland, New Zealand in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. History The Gallery was established in 1957 by Dutch artists Kees (Cornelis) Hos (born 1916, The Hague, Netherlands - died 3 December 2015), a printmaker and painter, and his wife, weaver Tina (Albertine) Hos (died 1976), who emigrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1956. Kees and Tina Hos originally opened the New Vision Craft Centre in Takapuna with the aim of making high quality work by New Zealand craftspeople available to the public. The gallery was named after Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy's influential book ''The New Vision, from Material to Architecture''. It became one of a small number of retail spaces and dealer galleries, including Helen Hitchings Gallery in Wellington (opened 1949) and Brenner Associates in Auckland, that showed contemporary craft alongside fine art and design. In early 1959 the Hoses moved New Vision to His Maje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the List of cities in New Zealand, most populous city of New Zealand and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth-largest city in Oceania. The city lies between the Hauraki Gulf to the east, the Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitākere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The surrounding hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with 53 volcanic centres that make up the Auckland Volcanic Field. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitematā Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. Auckland is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Clairmont
Philip Anthony Clairmont (1949–1984) was a New Zealand painter. Biography Clairmont was born to Thelma and Rex Haines on 15 September 1949 in Nelson and named Philip Rex Haines. After his parents separated, his mother changed the family name in 1967 and he became Philip Anthony Clairmont. He attended Nelson College from 1963 to 1966.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition He studied in Christchurch under artists Rudolf Gopas and Doris Lusk, graduating from the Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1970. In 1969 he married Viki Hansen, in a wedding filmed by a local television station as an example of a 'hippie wedding', and their daughter Melissa was born the same year. In 1973 he received a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council grant and the family moved to Waikanae north of Wellington and four years later to 39 Roy Street in Wellington. Clairmont’s final move was to Auckland in 1977. In 1979 he had another child, this time with his partner Rachel Power, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Thompson
Pauline Adele Thompson (28 November 1942 – 27 July 2012) was a New Zealand painter. Her style can be described as romantic-realist. She exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts and in the ''New Women Artists'' exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in 1984. Thompson was born in 1942, the daughter of Walter Kirkpatrick Thompson and Marie Gabrielle Buffett. She died on Auckland's North Shore on 27 July 2012. Early life and family Pauline Adele Thompson was born on the 28 November 1942 in Auckland, New Zealand. Her father, Walter Kirkpatrick Thompson, was a builder, and her mother, Marie Gabrielle Buffett, was a piano teacher. She had an older sibling. Thompson was born with haemolytic disease of the newborn, and her life was saved with a full blood transfusion immediately after birth. Later, a younger brother with the same condition would die shortly after birth. She had joint Pākehā and Tahitian ancestry. Thompson showed interest in painting from a young age. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
