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Richard Adams (born 1957) – violinist and abstract painter. Chrystabel Aitken (1904–2005) – sculptor and jeweller. Florence Akins (1906–2012) – metalworker and textile artist. Gretchen Albrecht (born 1943) – painter. Peter Alger (born 1952) – ceramicist. Jim Allen (1922–2023) – sculptor, carver and mixed media artist.
Colin John McCahon (/ məˈkɑːn /; 1 August 1919 – 27 May 1987) [ 1 ] was a New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text. Along with Toss Woollaston and Rita Angus, McCahon is credited with introducing modernism to New Zealand in the ...
Europeans began producing art in New Zealand as soon as they arrived, with many exploration ships including an artist to record newly discovered places, people, flora and fauna. The first European work of art made in New Zealand was a drawing by Isaac Gilsemans, the artist on Abel Tasman's expedition of 1642. [16] [17]
K. Keri Kaa (1942–2020), writer, educator and advocate of Māori language. Kuni Kaa Jenkins, writer, research and educationalist. Simone Kaho (born 1978), poet. Amy Kane (1879–1979), journalist and community leader. Angelique Kasmara (living), novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer, editor and translator.
Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, [1] New Zealand's highest civil honour.
Dick Frizzell. Richard John Frizzell MNZM (born 1943) is a New Zealand artist known for his pop art paintings and prints. His work often features Kiwiana iconography combined with motifs from Māori art traditions, such as the tiki and tā moko. He is based in Auckland. Frizzell does not stay within one particular style, and often adopts ...
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield ...
Goldie studied art part-time under Louis John Steele, [1] after leaving school to work in his father's business. A former Governor of New Zealand, Sir George Grey, was impressed by two of Goldie's still-life paintings that were being exhibited at the Auckland Academy of Art (Steele's art society, of which Goldie was honorary secretary) in 1891, and he talked David Goldie into permitting his ...