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Article – Howard Davis
Rita Angus, An Artist’s Life
Along with the works of Colin McCahon and Toss Wollaston, Angus’ oil and water colours are now considered among the most important in the development of twentieth-century New Zealand art.She was a pioneer of modern painting during the 1930s and 1940s and over one hundred years since her birth, works such as
Central Otago (1940) and
Portrait of Betty Curnow (1941-42) have become national icons. Although Angus has become one of Aotearoa’s best-loved painters, the story of her life remained little known and poorly understood before Jill Trevelyan’s acclaimed and revelatory biography, which won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2009. This revised edition updates the original with new assessments of Angus in light of the upcoming exhibition to be held at Te Papa late in 2021.
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The Elam School of Fine Arts annual graduation show has been cancelled. Students Jazmin Snoswell, left, Sue Nelson, Inga Fillary, Harry Russom, and Samuel Montgomery. “We were all left a bit gobsmacked. They changed it with no heads-up whatsoever.” Nelson proposed a “whole raft” of alternatives to the university, including offering to “slash the numbers” of guests, but it wouldn’t budge, she said. The annual grad show is traditionally an opportunity for students to showcase their projects to family, friends, and bigwigs in the art world. “They invite quite a lot of important people to the grad show, and it really is a way to get your career off the ground,” Nelson said.