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Rutland Group
Rutland Group or Rutland Arts Group was a New Zealand art association formed by students from the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, New Zealand. The group took its name from the location of the original Elam Art School which was on Rutland Street. It is considered to have existed from 1935 through 1958. Members of the group, which changed over time, exhibited yearly. The shows were often covered by the New Zealand art press. In 2002 an exhibit "The Rutland Group Revisited" was presented at the Kinder House in Auckland. In 2004, a history of the group, ''We learnt to see :Elam's Rutland Group 1935–1958; a biographical journey with Auckland artists'' (ISBN:9780908943272) was written by Ian Thwaites and Rie Fletcher. Artists associated with the Rutland Group The history of the group "We learnt to see" lists over 100 artists associated with the group. This list is derived from that information, unless otherwise noted. * Bertram Gordon Worth Battensby * Elizabeth Mary Bisley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elam School Of Fine Arts
The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded by John Edward Elam, is part of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland. Students study degrees in fine art with an emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach. The school is located across three buildings, the Mondrian building, Building 431 (or the "Main" fine arts building), and Elam B, which includes the studios for postgraduate and doctoral students on Princes Street, in central Auckland, New Zealand. History The school was founded in 1890 by Elam, and incorporated a School of Design which had been established and maintained for 11 years by Sir Logan Campbell. Edward William Payton was the first director, retiring in 1924 after 35 years. Archie Fisher was appointed principal in 1924 and was instrumental in the school's inclusion within the University of Auckland in 1950. A fire in 1949, which destroyed the school and library, was the catalyst, as well as the loss of pre-1950 administrative records, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegarde Read
Hildegarde Egmont Read ( Dixon, 1892–1988) was a New Zealand painter. Her work is held in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Read was born in Stratford, New Zealand in 1892. Read studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, and her contemporaries included Bruce Roughton, Guy Mountain, Jocelyn Wilkie, and Samuel Marsh Williams. Read also studied at the Royal College of Art in London. One of her artworks exhibited in the Auckland Society of Arts 1929 exhibition was purchased for the City Art Gallery A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... by the Auckland City Council. The work purchased was a "spirited sketch in sepia of the male figure." One of Read's charcoal drawings was reproduced in English art monthly '' The Studio''. In 1940, Read married Bert Rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Art
New Zealand art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from New Zealand and comes from different traditions: indigenous Māori art, that of the early European (or Pākehā) settlers, and later migrants from Pacific, Asian, and European countries. Prehistoric art Charcoal drawings can be found on limestone rock shelters in the centre of the South Island, with over 500 sites in the South Island stretching from Kaikoura to North Otago including at the Takiroa Rock Art Shelter. The drawings are estimated to be between 500 and 800 years old, and portray animals, humans and legendary creatures, possibly stylised reptiles. Some of the birds pictured are extinct, including moa and Haast's eagles. They were drawn by Māori, but the meanings of the art is unknown. The ink they were drawn with was recorded in the 1920s and included resin and gum from tree's including tarata, and either shark liver oil or weka fat. There are pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Organisations Based In New Zealand
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sina Woolcott
Sina Helen Gibson Woolcott (24 August 1907 – 29 May 2003) was a New Zealand artist, born in Ba, Fiji. Woolcott was educated at the Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland. She was a member of, and exhibited with: * Auckland Society of Arts * New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts * Rutland Group * The Group The Group may refer to: Film and television * ''The Group'' (Australian TV series), 1971 situation comedy produced by Cash Harmon Television for ATN7 * ''The Group'' (Canadian TV series), 1968–70 music variety on CBC Television * ''The Group ... in 1950 References Further reading Artist files for Sina Woolcott are held at: E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o TāmakiHocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena 1907 births 2003 deaths New Zealand painters People associated with the Rutland Group People from Ba (town) Elam Art School alumni University of Auckland alumni New Zealand women painters People associated with the Auckland Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Tylee
Marion Elizabeth Tylee (25 May 1900 – 27 February 1981)Births Deaths & Marriages Online was a New Zealand artist. Private life Born at Makuri near Pahiatua, New Zealand, she was the daughter of Walter Edward Charles Tylee and his wife Katherine Anne née Perry. After the Second World War she settled in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Career Tylee studied in New Zealand with D. K. Richmond at Miss Barber's Academy in Wellington. In 1923 she atteded the Canterbury College School of Art, and she won a New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts award for a watercolour.Art Students Awards page 4, ''The Evening Post'', 20 September 1923 She later trained with T. A. McCormack. From 1926 to 1929 she a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vida Steinert
Vida Isabella Steinert (''née'' Vickers; 24 January 1903 – 27 February 1999) was a New Zealand painter, born in Hamilton, New Zealand. Also known as Vida Isabella Vickers, Vida Isabella Steinert, or Vida Steinhart. Education A graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, Steinert was part of the Rutland group of painters, alongside Jack Crippen and Ruth Coyle. During her career she was based in Auckland, and associated with painters Charles Tole, Bessie Christie, Helen Brown, Joan Lillicrap, Joycelyn Harrison-Smith, and Alison Pickmer. Career A modernist painter, her work often depicted life in New Zealand, specifically local people and landscapes. Steinert worked primarily in oils, watercolors, and pencils. Her works include: The Valley; Ponies at the fair; Road to Colville; and Spanish Dancer. Exhibitions In 1950, Steinert exhibited with '' The Group'', an informal art association from Christchurch, New Zealand, that formed to provide a freer alternative to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Spicer
Mary Margaret Gore Spicer (1908–1984) was a New Zealand artist. Education Spicer was educated at Chilton Saint James School in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. She then trained at the Elam School of Fine Arts and was influenced by the teaching of John Weeks, though she was not taught by him directly. Career Spicer worked in watercolours, often painting landscapes and life in small towns of New Zealand. She was a contemporary of Rena Manson, Ida Eise, and Bessie Christie. After her studies, Spicer traveled to England and Egypt with her mother, Ella Spicer, also an artist. During their travels they both exhibited in Cairo. Spicer exhibited with several New Zealand art associations including: * Auckland Society of Arts * Canterbury Society of Arts * New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts * Rutland Group * Auckland Fellowship of Artists In 1963 she was awarded the Kelliher Art Prize (second place). Her work is held at the Waihi Waihi is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Spencer Bower
Catherine Olivia Orme Spencer Bower (13 April 1905 – 8 July 1982) was a New Zealand painter. Born in England, she spent her adult life in New Zealand, mostly in Christchurch. Early life Spencer Bower was born in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England on 13 April 1905, along with her twin brother, Marmaduke. Her mother, Rosa Dixon, was an artist and her father, Anthony Spencer Bower, was a civil engineer. The couple met in England and returned to New Zealand in 1920, when Olivia Spencer Bower was 15 years old. She spent her first nine years in St Neots, until the family moved to Bournemouth in 1914. Training and career In England, Spencer Bower was introduced to the techniques of watercolour painting by her school art teacher. In Christchurch, she attended Rangi Ruru Girls' School and began studying at the Canterbury College School of Art one afternoon a week. Spencer Bower attended the art school for eight years in total, alongside artists such as Rita Angus and Rata Lovell- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Smith (textile Designer)
May Anne Smith (18 June 1906 – 24 July 1988) was a painter, engraver, textile designer and textile printer. Smith was part of a movement of women who were instrumental in bringing new artistic ideas to New Zealand and influencing the art of the country. Early life May Smith was born in Simla, India, in 1906 where British India had its summer government headquarters. Smith's father was Sir Joseph Smith, a civil engineer. Smith was the eldest of three children. She went to England in her early childhood in order undergo a series of hip operations. Because the procedures included long periods of enforced inactivity, her grandmother encouraged her to use this time to learn to paint. When she was mobile again at school she received formal art training, first at a convent in Mussoorie and later at Loreto College in Simla. Education Smith returned to New Zealand, in 1921 with her mother and two brothers where they settled in Auckland. Smith began as a student of the Diocesan Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Blomfield Pickmere
Alison Blomfield Pickmere (1908–1971) was a New Zealand secretary, interior decorator and artist. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... in 1908. References 1908 births 1971 deaths People from Auckland New Zealand artists {{NewZealand-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinder House
Kinder House is a List of category 1 historic places in Auckland, historic house on Ayr Street, in the suburb of Parnell, New Zealand, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. History Kinder House, sometimes known as "The Headmaster's House" was built in 1857. It was commissioned by Bishop George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield), George Selwyn and designed by Frederick Thatcher, architect of many Anglican buildings in Auckland. The house is a Gothic-style, double-storey mansion built of grey volcanic stone quarried from nearby Mount Eden. The house was the residence of London-born John Kinder (priest), John Kinder (1819 1903), an Anglican priest, painter, photographer and headmaster of the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell. He occupied the house with his wife and the six children of his brother Henry Kinder, who was Julian Salomons#Legal career, murdered in 1865 by John's sister-in-law and her lover. The house was opened to the public as a gallery in 1982. The house is also used fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
