List of New Zealand artists
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- Laurence AberhartLaurence AberhartLaurence Aberhart is a New Zealand photographer. He was born in Nelson in 1949, along with four siblings, but moved to Lyttelton in the late 1960s, before finally moving to Russell where he still lives and works today. Aberhart travels often and has produced many collections of photographs taken...
- photographer - Mark Adams - photographer
- Gretchen AlbrechtGretchen AlbrechtGretchen Albrecht, CNZM, is a major New Zealand painter.Gretchen Albrecht was born in Onehunga, and attended the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1963. She received grants from the QE II Arts foundation in 1976, 1978 and 1986, and travelled and worked extensively in...
- painter - Thomas AndrewThomas AndrewThomas Andrew was a Scottish-born New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago. He was born in Crossgates and died in Roxburgh.Andrew made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1872-73 season, against Canterbury...
- photographer - Rita AngusRita AngusRita Angus was a New Zealand painter born in Hastings. Along with Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, she is credited as one of the leading figures in twentieth century New Zealand art...
- 20th C painter - Billy AppleBilly AppleBilly Apple, ONZM is an artist whose work is associated with the New York and British schools of Pop Art in the 1960s and with the Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He collaborated with the likes of Andy Warhol and other pop artists...
- 20th C painter
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- John Badcock (artist) - contemporary artist
- Murray BallMurray BallMurray Hone Ball ONZM , a New Zealand-born cartoonist, has become known for his Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero , Bruce the Barbarian, All the King's Comrades and the long-running Footrot Flats comic series...
- cartoonist - George BaloghyGeorge BaloghyGeorge Baloghy is a prominent New Zealand artist. He is a painter, preferring to paint with oil on canvas.He was born in 1950 in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to New Zealand in 1956 as a refugee. He was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and at the University of Auckland from which he...
- painter - William Bambridge - 19th C artist
- Barry BarclayBarry BarclayBarry Barclay, MNZM was a New Zealand filmmaker and writer of Maori and Pākehā descent.-Background:...
- filmmaker - Don BinneyDon BinneyDon Binney is a New Zealand painter best known for his paintings of birds. He was awarded an OBE for services to the arts in 1995....
- painter - Lisa BlackLisa BlackLisa Black is a sculpture artist based in Auckland, New Zealand.Her work often combines taxidermy animals and preserved insects with found metal and sometimes working mechanical parts, and has been described as "Steampunk" art, although she does not use the term herself...
- mixed media sculptor - Charles Blomfield - 19th Century painter
- Brian BrakeBrian BrakeBrian Brake was one of New Zealand's most internationally successful photographers.Born in Wellington, New Zealand, John Brian Brake was the adopted son of John Samuel Brake and his wife Jennie Brake...
- photographer - William BrassingtonWilliam BrassingtonWilliam Brassington was a stonemason, sculptor and builder practising in Christchurch, New Zealand in the late 19th century...
- stonemason & sculptor - Nigel BrownNigel BrownNigel Roderick Brown ONZM is a New Zealand painter living in coastal Southland whose work is mainly about the history of New Zealand and its natives. As a young boy he spent much of his life growing up in a packing shed in Tauranga...
- painter
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- David FarquharDavid Farquhar (composer)David Andress Farquhar was born in Cambridge, New Zealand in 1928 but spent most of his early years in Fiji.He was educated in New Zealand and began his university studies in Christchurch before completing his degree at Victoria University of Wellington where he studied with Douglas Lilburn...
- composer - Charles FellCharles FellCharles Yates Fell, was a New Zealand barrister, councillor, mayor and watercolour artist.- Background :Fell was born in Nelson in 1844...
- painter - Fatu Feu'uFatu Feu'uFatu Akelei Feu'u, ONZM is a noted Samoan painter.Feu'u grew up in the village of Poutasi in the district of Falealili in Samoa.Feu'u emigrated to New Zealand in 1966. He has established a reputation as the elder statesman of Pacific art in New Zealand...
- painter - Tony FomisonTony FomisonTony Fomison was a notable artist in New Zealand. He was an important post-war visual artist in the country and influenced New Zealand art by incorporating elements of narrative and myth into contemporary art....
- painter - Marti FriedlanderMarti FriedlanderMarti Friedlander is a New Zealand photographer.Born in England to Russian Jewish immigrants, from the age of three she was raised in orphanages. She married a New Zealander and emigrated to New Zealand in 1958...
- photographer - Dick FrizzellDick FrizzellDick Frizzell is a New Zealand artist based in Hawke's Bay.Frizzell's work is best described as expressionist pop in its appropriation of kitsch kiwiana icons and incorporation of them into his often cartoon-like paintings and lithographs. He does not stay within one particular style, and often...
- 20th C printmaker, painter
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- Alan GibbsAlan GibbsAlan Gibbs is a New Zealand businessman, entrepreneur, and art patron; and one of New Zealand's wealthiest residents. National Business Review magazine estimates his wealth at $450 million.-Career:...
- art patron - Charles Goldie - 19th Century painter
- Sir George Grey - 19th Century art patron
- John GullyJohn Gully (New Zealand artist)John Gully was a prominent New Zealand landscape painter.He was born in Bath, and was the son of Philip Gully, a porter, and Mary Vincent. Gully's formal education finished when he was apprenticed to Stothert's foundry aged around 13. He worked in the designing and drafting department. He...
- 19th Century painter
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- Bill HammondBill Hammond (artist)William Hammond is a New Zealand artist.Hammond attended the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury from 1966 to 1969, and has worked as a full-time painter since 1981...
- painter - Jeffrey Harris - painter
- Rhona HaszardRhona HaszardRhona Haszard was a New Zealand artist.She was born in Thames, New Zealand, one of five children of a devoted mother, Alice, and a father who worked for the Lands and Survey Department, becoming a Commissioner of Crown Lands in 1910....
- painter - Charles HeaphyCharles HeaphyMajor Charles Heaphy VC was a New Zealand explorer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
- 19th C painter - Louise HendersonLouise HendersonDame Louise Etiennette Sidonie Henderson, DBE was a New Zealand artist and painter.Born in Paris, she was raised there and it was there she met her future husband Hubert Henderson, a New Zealander. Hubert returned to New Zealand in 1923 and proposed to Louise, but propriety demanded that a single...
- 20th C painter - Mabel HillMabel HillMabel Hill was a New Zealand artist.She was born at Cox's Creek, Auckland, New Zealand, the youngest child of Charles Hill, a hatter, and his wife, Eliza Ann Hulbert. In 1875 the family including Mabel, her brother Alfred Hill and 7 other siblings moved to Wellington, New Zealand. Hill attended...
- painter - Frances HodgkinsFrances HodgkinsFrances Mary Hodgkins was a painter chiefly of landscape and still life, and for a short period was a designer of textiles. She was born in New Zealand, but spent most of her working life in Britain...
- painter - Ralph HotereRalph HotereHone Papita Raukura "Ralph" Hotere is a New Zealand artist of Māori descent . He was born in Mitimiti, Northland and He is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important living artists...
- painter, educator
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- Lily LaitaLily LaitaLily Aitua Laita is an artist and art educator in New Zealand. Laita is of mixed Pākehā and Māori ancestry, as well as of Samoan descent. Laita is known for using Māori, English and Samoan texts in her paintings....
- painter - Gottfried LindauerGottfried LindauerGottfried Lindauer, also known as Gottfried or Bohumir Lindaur was a New Zealand artist of Czech descent famous for his portraits. Many prominent Māori chiefs commissioned his work, which accurately records their facial tattoos, clothing, ornaments and weapons. The other artist known for these...
- 19th C painter - Len LyeLen LyeLen Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye , was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives such as the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific...
- 20th C sculptor, experimental film maker
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- Josiah MartinJosiah MartinLieutenant-Colonel Josiah Martin was the last colonial governor of the Province of North Carolina .-Family and connections:...
- 19th C photographer - Colin McCahonColin McCahonColin John McCahon was a prominent New Zealand artist. During his life he also worked in art galleries and as a university lecturer...
- painter, museum curator, teacher - Shona McFarlaneShona McFarlaneShona Graham McFarlane CBE was a New Zealand artist, journalist and broadcaster.McFarlane was born in Gore and educated at Otago Girls' High School, and studied teaching at Dunedin Teachers' College...
- 20th C painter - Peter McIntyrePeter McIntyre (artist)Peter McIntyre OBE was a New Zealand painter and author. He was the son of Peter McIntyre, a lithographic artist, and his wife, Isabella Edith Cubitt.He was New Zealand's official war artist during World War II....
- 20th C painter - Sofia MinsonSofia MinsonSofia Minson is a contemporary New Zealand oil painter of Māori , Swedish, English and Irish descent. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand and spent her childhood living in Samoa, New Zealand, China and Sri Lanka due to her father's engineering project management work...
- painter - Merata MitaMerata MitaMerata Mita, CNZM was a significant filmmaker in New Zealand as well as a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Te Rangi.-Background:...
- filmmaker - Shona MollerShona MollerShona Moller is a Wellington, New Zealand artist based on the Kapiti Coast. She has been a professional artist since 1999, exhibited London 2003. Her first solo London exhibition opened in 2008 in Bloomsbury. The 2008 London exhibition was a sell out....
- painter - Geoff MoonGeoff MoonGeoff Moon, OBE MRCVS ARPS Hon FPSNZ MACVs., was a New Zealand naturalist an ornithologist, conservationist, veterinary surgeon and photographer. He is the author and photographer of many books on New Zealand birds and landscape...
- photographer
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- Michael ParekowhaiMichael ParekowhaiMichael Parekowhai is a New Zealand sculptor, of Nga Ariki, Ngati Whakarongo and European descent. He makes a broad range of work, across a range of media that intersects sculpture and photography...
- sculptor - Johnny PenisulaJohnny PenisulaJohnny Penisula MNZM is a contemporary Samoan stone sculptor and painter living in New Zealand.Penisula was born in Samoa and began painting when he was 13 years old. He moved to New Zealand in 1962 and set up home in Invercargill. He studied art at night classes and began exhibiting as a painter...
- artist - Phil PricePhil PricePhil Price is a New Zealand sculptor. Phil Price is best known for his large scale wind-activated kinetic sculpture.Phil Price was educated in Christchurch and specialised in sculpture at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts....
- sculptor - John PuleJohn PuleJohn Puhiatau Pule, born in Liku, Niue in 1962, is a Niuean artist, novelist and poet. He has lived in Auckland, New Zealand since the age of 3. The Queensland Art Gallery describes him as "one of the Pacific's most significant artists".-Literature:...
- artist, writer
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- Theo SchoonTheodorus Johannes SchoonTheodorus Johannes Schoon was an artist, photographer and carver.-Life:Theo Schoon was born at Kebumen, Java in the East Indies, the son of Dutch parents, Johannes Theodorus Schoon and his wife, Barbara Isabella Maria Steegemans. Theo lived in Java with his parents and brother before being sent to...
- painter, carver, photographer - Alfred SharpeAlfred SharpeSir Alfred Sharpe was a professional hunter who became a British colonial administrator and Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protectorate from 1896 until 1910...
- 19th C painter - Peter SiddellPeter SiddellSir Peter Graham Siddell, KNZM, QSO was a noted New Zealand artist.Siddell was born in Auckland and educated at Mt Albert Grammar School and the Auckland College of Education. In 1960 he married artist Sylvia Siddell. They live in Auckland and have two adult daughters. Siddell had painted...
- 20th C painter - Michael SmitherMichael SmitherMichael Duncan Smither, CNZM is a New Zealand painter and composer.He was born in New Plymouth and was educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School and Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland...
- painter & sculptor - Peter StichburyPeter StichburyPeter Stichbury, born Auckland 1969, is a New Zealand artist.Stichbury graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1997. He won New Zealand’s prestigious Wallace Art Awards the same year. Stichbury is primarily a painter but his body of work also spans the mediums of...
- 20th C painter - Grahame SydneyGrahame SydneyGrahame Sydney, ONZM is a New Zealand artist, based in the southern South Island region of Otago. His landscapes, which concentrate largely on sparse elements of human impact on Otago's wild natural beauty and the loneliness of individuals in this scenery, possess a style which could be described...
- 20th C painter
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- Petrus Van der VeldenPetrus Van der VeldenPetrus van der Velden , who is also known as Paulus van der Velden was a New Zealand artist of Dutch descent. Van der Velden was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and died in Auckland, New Zealand, 11 Nov 1913...
- 20th Century painter - Bianca van RangelrooyBianca van RangelrooyBianca van Rangelrooy is a New Zealand artist.Van Rangelrooy was born in Wellington, New Zealand and received her BFA from the University of Canterbury. Widely known for her public art in government buildings in New Zealand. Van Rangelrooy also works in environmental art, drawing, painting,...
- painter / sculptor
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- James WallaceJames WallaceJames Wallace may refer to:*James Wallace , English football player*James Wallace , British Member of Parliament for Horsham, Attorney-General...
- art patron - Ben WebbBen Webb (artist)Benedict Webb is a Dunedin, New Zealand-born artist, dividing his time between working in New Zealand and Germany. He is the son of New Zealand artist Marilynn Webb....
- 20th C artist - Ans WestraAns WestraAns Westra, CNZM is a self-taught New Zealand photographer, with an interest in Māori, whose prominence as an artist and author was most amplified by her 1964 piece Washday at the pa....
- photographer - Robin WhiteRobin WhiteRobin White may refer to:* Robin White , BBC journalist and playwright* Robin White , professional tennis player* Robin White , barrister at Old Square Chambers, Bedford Row, London who practises in employment and discrimination law....
- 20th C painter - Toss WoollastonToss WoollastonSir Mountford Tosswill "Toss" Woollaston was one of the most important New Zealand painters of the 20th century.Born in Toko, Taranaki on April 11, 1910, Woollaston studied art at the Canterbury School of Art in Christchurch...
- painter - Robert Henry Wynyard - 19th C artist