Jolene Douglas

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]

Exhibitions

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)

See more

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/6039

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Smith, Huhana, ed. (2002). Taiāwhio : conversations with contemporary Māori artists. Wellington [N.Z.]: Te Papa Press. ISBN 0-909010-86-2. OCLC 50999083.
^ "Tairawhiti Museum - The Staff". Retrieved 1 March 2009.
^ "Spirit Wrestler Gallery - Past Exhibitions".
^ "Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa".
^ "Douglas, Jolene". Find NZ Artists. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^ Hakaraia, Libby; Waata Urlich, Colleen, eds. (2008). Te kāhui o Matariki : contemporary Māori art for Matariki. Urlich, Colleen Waata, 1939-2015. North Shore City, N.Z.: Raupo. ISBN 978-0-14-300934-4. OCLC 213382039.
^ "2002 - Adelaide Festival". 14 January 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ Buckley, Jennifer (1991). "Wahine Whitu o Tairawhiti". Broadsheet. 187. Auckland, New Zealand: 37–38.

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[:0-1] Smith, Huhana, ed. (2002). Taiāwhio : conversations with contemporary Māori artists. Wellington [N.Z.]: Te Papa Press. ISBN 0-909010-86-2. OCLC 50999083.

[2] "Tairawhiti Museum - The Staff". Retrieved 1 March 2009.

[3] "Spirit Wrestler Gallery - Past Exhibitions".

[4] "Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa".

[5] "Douglas, Jolene". Find NZ Artists. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[6] Hakaraia, Libby; Waata Urlich, Colleen, eds. (2008). Te kāhui o Matariki : contemporary Māori art for Matariki. Urlich, Colleen Waata, 1939-2015. North Shore City, N.Z.: Raupo. ISBN 978-0-14-300934-4. OCLC 213382039.

[7] "2002 - Adelaide Festival". 14 January 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

[8] Buckley, Jennifer (1991). "Wahine Whitu o Tairawhiti". Broadsheet. 187. Auckland, New Zealand: 37–38.

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