Awards and honours
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- 2004 Landfall Essay Competition
- 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Award in Biography for Chronicle of the Unsung [9]
- 2013 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement [10]
- 2015 Michael King Writers Fellowship [1]
Martin Edmond | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Ohakune, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington Western Sydney University |
| Relatives | Lauris Edmond (mother) |
Martin Edmond (born 1952 in Ohakune) is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. He is the son of writer Lauris Edmond.
Edmond studied Anthropology and English, graduating MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington. He spent a year working as a junior lecturer before joining avant garde theatre group Red Mole, with whom he spent five years as a writer and actor. He has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1981. [1] He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University with his dissertation on Australian artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira. [2]
Edmond has written screenplays for several New Zealand feature films, including Illustrious Energy (1987); [3] The Footstep Man (1991) and Terra Nova (1996).
Edmond has written over 20 books. They include Streets of Music (1980), Houses, Days, Skies (1988), The Autobiography of My Father (1992), and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont (1999). The Autobiography of My Father was nominated for a 1993 Wattie's Book Award, and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont was a finalist in the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Dark Night (2011) is a partial Colin McCahon biography, and was successful in Australia. The Dreaming Land (2015) is a personal tale of a 1950s and 60s childhood in New Zealand. [1] His 2017 book The Expatriates (Bridget Williams Books, ISBN 978-19885-33179) is a history of four extraordinary New Zealanders: Harold Williams, Ronald Syme, John Platts-Mills, and Joe Trapp; Edmond used research material passed on by the late James McNeish. [4] Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days 1974-1980 about Edmond's experiences with Red Mole was published in 2020 [5] and was longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for general nonfiction. [6]
Edmond was commissioned to write a history of the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography which was published in 2024. [7] [8]
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The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, which ran from 1968 to 1995.
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.
The Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery at Pukenamu, Queen's Park Whanganui is a regional art museum with a collection of international and New Zealand art. It was closed for 10 years for redevelopment and re-opened in November 2024. In 2024 it was announced as a 2024 NatGeo Best of the World pick.
Edith Marion Collier was an early modern painter from New Zealand. Brought up and educated in Whanganui, Collier received a thorough although conservative art education studying at the Technical School in Whanganui.
Philip Anthony Clairmont (1949–1984) was a New Zealand painter.
Sir Archie John Te Atawhai Taiaroa was a New Zealand Māori leader who affiliated to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Maru iwi. He chaired the Whanganui River Maori Trust Board and Te Ohu Kaimoana, the latter for five years. He lived for a long time at Taumarunui, where he was a borough councillor and deputy mayor.
Richard Steward Rudd is an English-born New Zealand potter.
Joanna Margaret Paul was a New Zealand visual artist, poet and film-maker.
Mervyn John Williams is a New Zealand artist. He was an early exponent of Op art in New Zealand in the 1960s–70s. In 1990 he originated a style of illusionary abstract painting based on chiaroscuro, creating the impression of three-dimensional forms and textures on a flat canvas. Since 2009 he has used digital techniques in returning to an Op art style. Williams is almost unique amongst his contemporaries in New Zealand art for having embraced abstraction at the start of his career and exclusively throughout. His work is held in all major New Zealand public collections. A monograph by Edward Hanfling was published by Ron Sang in 2014 coinciding with a survey exhibition.
Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Andrew Buchanan, New Zealand politician 1862–1874; great-great granddaughter of William Baldwin New Zealand politician 1863–1867; great granddaughter of Admiral William Oswald Story of the British Royal Navy. She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones
Julian Hooper is an Auckland-based artist. His art has been described as "an assemblage of metaphors, shapes and forms" that "details an eclectic and imaginative visual language that delves into his personal ancestry.". He was born in Auckland.
Joanne Drayton is a New Zealand art historian, biographer and nonfiction writer.
Raymond Henry "Sandy" Adsett is a New Zealand visual artist and educator. He is acknowledged for championing the art of kōwhaiwhai painting, creating a context for the artform within the development of contemporary Māori art.
Selwyn Peter Webb was a New Zealand art dealer and gallery director. He was a supporter and promoter of art, and particularly contemporary New Zealand art, for over sixty years. Webb's work spanned public art museums, publishing and the founding of the Peter Webb Galleries and Webb's auction house.
Gordon Harold Brown is a New Zealand art historian, curator, and artist.
Kuni Kaa Jenkins is an educationalist and author in New Zealand. She is a Professor in Education at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. She has researched early Māori written documents looking at relationships between Māori and Pākehā. She co-authored the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winner Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds.
Rona Ina Dyer was a New Zealand artist, working in wood-engraving, watercolours and oils. Her work was used to illustrate books and is also held in the permanent collections of Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui and Christchurch Art Gallery. She was also known for mural design and painting.
Lydia Larden was a British artist. Some of her watercolours are in the collection of the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, New Zealand.
Ethel Birch was a British born New Zealand settler and the first European woman to climb Mount Ruapehu. She donated watercolours by her mother Lydia Larden to the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui.
Annie Elizabeth Davis (1870–1943) was a New Zealand photographer.
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