Irene Ferguson (born 1970 in Hokitika, New Zealand) is an artist best known for her portrait paintings. Ferguson was awarded the New Zealand Portraiture Award in 2008.
Ferguson gained a Diploma of Fine Arts with Honors from Otago School of Fine Art, Dunedin in 1993 and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art in 2005. From 2005 to 2006 Irene lived and worked in New York City. In 2010 she travelled to Italy to complete training in portraiture at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. [1]
In 2002 Ferguson was awarded the William Hodges Fellowship residency by the Southland Art Foundation. [2] In 2008 Ferguson was the Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Wellington. [3]
Ferguson's work is predominately held within New Zealand collections.
Anna Jacoba Westra, known as Ans Westra, was a Dutch-born New Zealand photographer, well known for her depictions of Māori life in the 20th century. Her prominence as an artist was amplified by her controversial 1964 children's book Washday at the Pa.
The BP Portrait Award is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. It is the successor to the John Player Portrait Award. It is the most important portrait prize in the world, and is reputedly one of the most prestigious competitions in contemporary art.
Graham Percy was a New Zealand-born artist, designer and illustrator. His work was the subject of The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy, a major posthumous exhibition of his work which was shown at galleries throughout New Zealand including City Gallery Wellington, Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland, Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui, the Rotorua Museum and the Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill.
John Z. Robinson is a New Zealand painter, printmaker, and jeweller. He has lived in Dunedin, New Zealand since 1978.
Sofia Minson is a contemporary New Zealand oil painter of Māori, Swedish, English and Irish descent.
Mark Adams is one of New Zealand's most distinguished photographers.
Sarah Jane Parton is a new media artist based in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Southland Art Foundation, established in 1995, is a Southland, New Zealand art foundation that provides funding for a variety of art programs and scholarships for New Zealand artists. It was the successor to the Trustbank Southland Art Foundation, created by former Southland Museum and Art Gallery Chairman, Dr Alf Poole CBE and former Southland Museum and Art Gallery Director, Russell Beck.
The William Hodges Fellowship residency programme is the successor to the Southland Art Foundation Artist in Residence.
Ronnie van Hout is a New Zealand artist, living in Melbourne, Australia. He works across a wide variety of media including sculpture, video, painting, photography, embroidery, and sound recordings.
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata is an art gallery in the Waterfront Shed 11 building in Wellington, New Zealand.
Adrienne Martyn is a New Zealand art photographer. Her work has been collected by numerous art galleries, museums and libraries in New Zealand including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Dowse Art Museum, the Auckland Art Gallery, the Christchurch Art Gallery and the Hocken Library.
Bridget Reweti is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Reweti is a member of the artist group Mata Aho Collective.
Heather Straka is a New Zealand artist, based in Auckland, who primarily works with the media of painting and photography. Straka is well known as a painter that utilises a lot of detail. She often depicts cultures that are not her own, which has caused controversy at times. Her work engages with themes of economic and social upheaval in interwar China, the role of women in Arabic society and Māori in relation to colonisation in New Zealand. Eventually, the figure became important in Straka's practice and she began to use photographs as the starting point for some of her works and "Increasingly too the body feminine has become her milieu".
Helen Joan Kedgley is a retired New Zealand art curator and gallery director, who remains active in arts governance. She is the twin sister of New Zealand politician Sue Kedgley and wife of retired diplomat and broadcaster Chris Laidlaw.
Beverley Doris Shore Bennett is a portrait artist and glass artist from New Zealand. Her work is included in the collection of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery and she is a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters.
Dorothy Catherine Wentworth Jenkin was a New Zealand watercolorist, botanical illustrator and printmaker. She was a founding member of the Invercargill Art Society and participated in campaigning for a public art gallery in Invercargill. She was involved in ensuring the acquisition of Anderson Park and the establishment of the Invercargill Art Gallery at that location. Many of her works are held at the Rakiura Museum and have been reproduced as prints and postcards.
Betty Rhind (1892–1965) was a New Zealand artist and art teacher.
Sacha Lees is a New Zealand artist, working primarily in oil painting in the genres of portraiture and fantastic art. In 2020 she was awarded the Adam Portraiture Award, New Zealand's premier portrait prize. Lees also works as a freelance commercial artist.