Joanna Braithwaite

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Joanna Braithwaite (born 1962) is a New Zealand painter. Braithwaite has been interested in exploring exchanges between people and animals since studying at the School of Fine Arts, in Canterbury in the mid-1980s. [1] She has said her work has always tended toward the autobiographical, so what is happening in her environment creeps into the work. [2]

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Life

Braithwaite was born in Halifax, England, in 1962 and immigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1965. [3] She grew up in the township of Pleasant Point in rural south Canterbury. Since the mid-1990s, when Braithwaite spent two years living in Melbourne, she has exhibited regularly in Australia as well as New Zealand. She returned to Australia in 1999 and continue to live and work in Sydney. [4]

Art

Braithwaite has been described as a "realist, though of an edgy an sceptical sort. Braithwaite's eloquently phrased paintings occupy that point where the traditions of animal painting and Vanitas painting intersect." [5] A painting of a slaughtered sheep's head she exhibited in 1991 epitomised New Zealand: "our farming and agricultural history, the idea of imperialism, the Christian symbolism of it and the distaste so many have for the display of powerful and raw emotion." [6]

Braithwaite's work has seven times been a finalist in the Sulman Prize and four times in the Archibald Prize, in 2018 with her portrait of businessman, art collector and philanthropist Pat Corrigan [7] and most recently in 2022 with McManusstan, her portrait of trade union leader Sally McManus. [8]

Education, awards and residencies

Braithwaite is a graduate of the Canterbury School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, where she received a BFA in 1985, and of the College of Fine Arts Sydney, where she received an MFA in 2000. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Beaven, Lisa (Spring 2002). "Taking Flight: The Airborne and Hybrid Images of Joanna Braithwaite". Art New Zealand. 102.
  2. ↑ Dunbar, Anna (8 December 1999). "Art that soars". The Press.
  3. ↑ Vanitas: Aspects of the Contemporary Still Life. Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch City Council. 1992. p. 2.
  4. 1 2 Paton, Justin; Milburn, Milburn (2005). Wonderland: Joanna Braithwaite. Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. ISBN   0-908910-43-6.
  5. ↑ Paton, Justin (7 July 1993). "Women's paintings, sculpture". Christchurch Press.
  6. ↑ Peoples, John Daly (12 April 1991). "Provincial Professionals". NBR Weekly Magazine: 32.
  7. ↑ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2018 finalist: Hall of fame – portrait of Pat Corrigan by Joanna Braithwaite". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2022 work: McManusstan by Joanna Braithwaite". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "Past Prizes - 2019". Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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