About to turn 86 on 6 December 2010, with his eyes sharpened by exercises, notorious NZ art forger, Karl Sim, was still at it…forging not only art, but a career as an eminently saleable artist. Karl Feodor Sim, changed his name by deed poll in 1985 to Carl Feodor Goldie, in honour of one of […]
In 2004, Michael Rowland and his wife, Jan, abandoned Mt Eden where their lives had been centred for many years, and moved to Oratia on Auckland’s West Coast. For Michael the move constituted a shift to full-time painting, while Jan, who worked as a primary school teacher, supported him, and continues to provide the emotional […]
Ian Dalzell is the only potter in New Zealand firing with coal. Based near Lake Brunner on the West Coast, his mentors include Yvonne Rust & Barry Brickell. Based at Kotuku, on NZ’s South Island West Coast, Ian uses a high BTU coal with some coking abilities which forms a bed on the fire bars […]
Among the world’s best contemporary jade sculptors (National Geographic 1987), master sculptor Ian Boustridge works the green stone in his native New Zealand. “I have a series of half-ton and multi-ton boulders from much earlier prospecting days,” says Ian Boustridge, “and it will take the rest of my life to sculpt from them the art […]
Theresa SjoquistYvonne Rust, QSM – An introduction – New Zealand’s influential pioneering potter, artist, arts teacher, with an unmatched gift for inspiring motivation. Yvonne Rust, QSM, was born in 1922 in Whangarei while her parents were living at Awarua in Northland, where her father had a few weeks earlier been posted as the native school headmaster. […]
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