Liz Maw (born 1966) is an artist from New Zealand.

Background

Maw was born in 1966 in

Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...

, New Zealand. She graduated from the

Elam School of Fine Arts The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded by John Edward Elam, is part of the University of Auckland Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries, Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland. It offered the first Bachelor of ...

in 2002. She lives with her partner, fellow painter

Andrew McLeod Andrew Luke McLeod (born 4 August 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games. ...

Mount Eden Mount Eden is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Z ...

Career

Maw is primarily a painter, working in oils. Drawing on her Catholic background, Maw's work melds

religious iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

and contemporary issues. She also references European old masters but takes celebrities and modern characters as her subjects, including notable portraits of

Francis Upritchard Francis Upritchard (born 1976) is a New Zealand contemporary artist based in London. In 2009, she represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale. Education Upritchard graduated from the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury ...

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, and

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. Her fantasy figures often depict women and explore the idea of the

femme fatale A ( , ; ), sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and Seduction, seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps. She is an archetype ...

. Selected exhibitions by Maw include: * ''evil genius miscellaneous'', 2010 Peter McLeavey Gallery (Wellington) * ''What I Did Last Summer'', 2011, group show at Peter Mcleavey Gallery (Wellington) * ''For Oscar'', 2011, group show at Peter Mcleavey Gallery (Wellington) * ''New Paintings'', 2011, Ivan Anthony Gallery (Auckland) * ''The Montgomery Twins Dead End and Avercamp Machine Man Winter Scene'', 2012, Peter McLeavey Gallery (Wellington) * ''Pandora rides the noon day demon and I feel sorry for you, no, I really do,'' 2013, Ivan Anthony Gallery (Auckland) * ''A Different View: Artists address pornography'', 2013, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, group exhibition * ''summer field, Mary, Jacinda, and an English Artist from a magazine'', 2014, Robert Heald Gallery (Wellington) * ''Voicing the Visible: feminist art from the University Collection'', 2014, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, group exhibition * ''Sam and Dani, Debi’s secret and The Future is Not what it used to be'', 2016, Robert Heald Gallery (Wellington) Maw is represented in Auckland by the Ivan Anthony Gallery and in Wellington by the Peter McLeavey Gallery. Works by Maw are held in several public collections, including at the

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions. Set be ...

, Chartwell Collection, James Wallace Arts Trust,

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa ( Māori for ' the treasure box'), it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand ...

, and the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

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External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maw, Liz 1966 births Artists from Wellington City People from Mount Eden Elam Art School alumni New Zealand painters New Zealand women painters People associated with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Living people

Background

Career

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