Kathleen Fraser
American poet, writer, and visual artist
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Mabel Dodge Luhan
A wealthy American patron of the twentieth-century arts movement, Mabel Evan Dodge Sterne Luhan (Mabel Dodge) hosted modernist salons in Arcetri, Italy (outside of Florence), New York City, and Taos, New Mexico, presiding over her guests as an intellectual provocateur, a financial supporter, organizer, and creative contributor for some of the most radical figures and ideas of the early twentieth century.
Mina Loy
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.
Mina Arndt
Artist whose work is represented in private collections and galleries in New Zealand and in galleries in England, Australia and France.
Kate Sperrey
Acclaimed as ‘one of the best portrait painters New Zealand has produced.’
Annette Pearse
Curator and director of Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Elizabeth Kelly
As an artist she was extremely self-critical, maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, but she was generous in her help to young artists. Although well regarded as a landscape painter, her major contribution to New Zealand art lies in the way she revitalised formal portraiture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Elsie Reeve
New Zealand jeweller
Maud Sherwood
The limitless decorative possibilities in Maud Sherwood’s work – vivid colours dashed onto the paper in broad sweeps, the assured linear qualities either loosely or tightly structured – reflected her own ‘vital and attractive’ personality.
Briar Gardner
New Zealand potter