Edith Morris
Edith Morris was an influential jewellery designer and silversmith, and one of a few women in New Zealand during the middle of the twentieth century who earned a living as a practising craftsperson.
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Angela Solling
Australian religious leader and sculptor
Evelyn Healy
Australian artist, community activist and peace activist
Dairine Vanston
Irish artist
Lilla Vanston
Irish sculptor
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
American watercolor painter
Máire de Paor
Irish archaeologist
Enga Washbourn
Working almost entirely in watercolours, Enga Washbourn painted landscapes, historical buildings and a few portraits. She depicted scenes in Nelson, Golden Bay, Canterbury and the West Coast. Unique in style, her paintings became known for their clarity, simplicity, colour, light and movement.
Patricia Payne
Dunedin-born mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne had a brilliant career from the early 1970s, singing on many of the world’s great stages – Barcelona, Covent Garden, Bayreuth (including Patrice Chéreau’s Ring cycle alongside Donald McIntyre), San Francisco, Geneva, and La Scala in Milan.
Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson
Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.