Jolene Douglas
New Zealand artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jolene Douglas is a contemporary New Zealand Māori artist (Ngāti Pu, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Raukawa) who has been exhibiting since 1983.[1] Two of her art works are in the collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She is currently living in Gisborne and been a curator Tairawhiti Museum since 1995.[1][2] Douglas was born in 1950 in Matamata, New Zealand.[1]
Douglas's art work is primarily in pastels and is described as self-reflective.[3][4] The republished cover of the classic New Zealand novel by Witi Ihimaera, The Matriarch, features one of Douglas's artworks.[1] Her work is in the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[5] Douglas is a founding member of the Māori women's collective Kauwae.[6]
Group exhibitions
(Selected list)
Ocean (2020), Artists Nick Tupara and Jolene Douglas, Tairawhiti Museum, Stout St, Gisborne
Sisters / Yakkannana / Kahui Mareikura (2002) Kauae and the Tandanya Collective, Adelaide Festival, Australia[7]
Ngā Wāhine Whitu o Tairawhiti (Seven women of Gisborne) (June 1991), Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland[8]
Books
Jolene Douglas's art work has been published in the following books: (Selected list)
Kauwae 09 : a series of three exhibitions from the Kauwae Group, a national collective of Māori women artists, (2009). Te Matapuna Trust. Kauwae Group, issuing body; Tairawhiti Museum, host institution; Nathan Homestead, host institution; Mangere Arts Centre-Ngā Tohu o Uenuku (Auckland, N.Z.)
Te Kahui O Matariki : Contemporary Maori Art of Matariki (2008). Ed. Libby Hakaraia & Colleen Waata Urlich. Penguin Group (NZ)
Taiāwhio (2002). Ed. Huhana Smith. Te Papa Press (NZ)
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