

Genevieve Silvester, Lifiting the Shadows from Gottfried Lindauer's 'Maori GIrl with Poi' Melinda Johnston, Resisting the Greater Deception: Social and Political Commentary in the Prints of James Boswell Michael Findlay, Eyes on the Prize: New Zealand Architects, Education and the Travelling Scholarship 1880-1939 Non-members are welcome at $25 per person, per event.- Warren Feeney, The Name's Colvin. CONTACT Jenny at to book a seat! Image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s frontispiece, complete with wombat, for his sister Christina’s long poem Goblin Market, which includes the line “One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry” / British Library, Creative Commons Otago Decorative and Fine Arts Society is a membership based group offering eight fantastic arts lecture events a year. In 2019 the Auckland Art Gallery published her Hodgkins catalogue raisonnée to accompany a major Hodgkins exhibition.

In 2010 Godwit published her book Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Galleries. She has been a curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki since 1998, caring for a collection that spans from c.1150 to 1950, a large part of which is European art but which also includes a small collection of Indian miniatures and Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Mary earned her master’s degree in art history and Italian at the University of Auckland in 1994. Mary Kisler is an author, art historian and Radio New Zealand art commentator, having recently retired as Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. OTAGO LECTURE WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2022 7.30pm at Dunedin Public Art Gallery Non-members $25 (includes refreshments).

Wrapping up the ODFAS year with a (Christmas) cracker lecture title: WISTFUL WOMEN, WINE AND WOMBATS – THE ART AND LIVES OF LONDON’S PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTERS This lecture examines the dialectic between Victorian morals and social constraints, not least for women, and how these ideas played out within the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the women they loved.
