Marianne Muggeridge (born 1952) is a New Zealand

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and screenprinter based in

Taranaki Taranaki is a regions of New Zealand, region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It is named after its main geographical feature, the stratovolcano Mount Taranaki, Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Egmont. The main centre is the ...

. She is best known for portraits of notable New Zealanders,

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and

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Early life

Muggeridge was born in

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, New Zealand in 1952. As a child, her family moved to Taranaki, where they lived in

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Ōpunake Ōpunake () is a small urban area in the North Island of New Zealand, located within the Taranaki region and governed by the South Taranaki District Council. Positioned along State Highway 45, it lies between Hāwera to the south and New Plymo ...

and

New Plymouth New Plymouth () is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, in Devon, from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. The New Pl ...

.
Art Taranaki Oral History Project, Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, September 2003
' She is of English and Irish ancestry.

Education

Muggeridge attended

Spotswood College Spotswood College is a co-educational state secondary school in Spotswood, New Plymouth, New Zealand. It was founded in 1960 and celebrated its 50th Jubilee in 2010. It was formerly New Zealand's largest school. It is New Plymouth's only co-ed ...

and later

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 ...

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 ...

, where she completed a

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students pursuing a professional education in the visual arts, Fine art, or performing arts. In some instances, it is also called a Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA). Background ...

in 1973.

Career

From the early 1970s Muggeridge lived outside New Zealand,
Dominion Post, Marianne Muggeridge: Close and personal, 8 April 2013
' including in Paris, Wales and London. In 1985 she held an exhibition at

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. In 2000, Muggeridge returned to New Zealand, settling in Wellington where she learned screenprinting from

Michael Smither Michael Duncan Smither (born 29 October 1939) is a New Zealand painter and composer. Background Smither was born in New Plymouth and was educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School and Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland. While studying he worke ...

. She won the first New Zealand Portrait Gallery Adam Portraiture award in 2000 for ''Lucy in her Green Dress''
NZ Portrait Gallery National Portrait Competition 2000
' and again in 2002 for ''Meren and Josie,''
NZ Portrait Gallery National Portrait Competition 2002
' receiving commendations in the contest in a further five years. Muggeridge's success in the Adam Portraiture Award led to commissions to paint portraits of notable New Zealanders, including

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for

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and Sir Paul Callaghan for the

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and Professors

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and Judith Kinnear for

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.
Marianne Muggeridge website
' In 2011, she returned to live and work in Taranaki.
Dominion Post, Marianne Muggeridge: Close and personal, 8 April 2013
' In 2013, the New Zealand Portrait Gallery held a major retrospective of Muggeridge's work, including some 50 nudes, portraits of individuals and groups, and landscapes. Muggeridge's work is in the collections of many notable New Zealand Institutions, including

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 ...

, Taranaki's

Puke Ariki Puke Ariki is a combined museum and library at New Plymouth, New Zealand, which opened in June 2003. It is an amalgamation of the New Plymouth Public Library (founded in 1848) and the Taranaki Museum (founded in 1919). Its name, Māori for "hil ...

and the

New Zealand Portrait Gallery The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata is an art gallery in the Waterfront Shed 11 building in Wellington, New Zealand. History The gallery was registered as a charitable trust in 1990. In 2005 the board hired its first paid dir ...

Style and methods

Muggeridge's style is described as realist. She prefers to paint from life. She says her paintings of people often involve multiple sittings, and some have taken up to four years to complete. She also speaks of the importance of the relationship between the artist and the sitter in portraiture, using colour and shadow in landscape painting and when painting a nude, attention to skin tones.
The Big Art Trip series 1 episode 7 2001
' Muggeridge says she changes between landscapes and portraits because changing between the two can bring about feelings of relief or stimulation. She has used a

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to keep oil paint wet between sittings.

Awards

*Winner, 2000 Adam Portraiture Award, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, for ''Lucy in her Green Dress'' *Winner, 2002 Adam Portraiture Award, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, for ''Meren and Josie''

References

External links

Marianne Muggeridge official website

Marianne Muggeridge's studio for Puke Ariki, Home Work: Taranaki Art 2020 exhibition
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muggeridge, Marianne Living people 1952 births 20th-century New Zealand women artists 21st-century New Zealand women artists New Zealand contemporary artists New Zealand printmakers Elam Art School alumni People from Taranaki People from Ōpunake People from New Plymouth People educated at Spotswood College