Drayton on Ngaio Marsh

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When:

Sun 17 May ’09, 2:30pm–3:30pm

Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Standard: $19.50
Earlybird pre 13 May: $16.50
Friend pre 13 May: $15.50
Student : $9.75
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.writersfestival.co.nz

Joanne Drayton's work focuses on New Zealand women artists and their struggle to produce work and survive in an often unsympathetic environment. Her lives include Edith Collier, the brilliant Wanganui artist who was recalled from Europe to nurse her ailing mother, whose father burnt many of her paintings, and who never painted experimentally again. Frances Hodgkin's pioneering life showed the way for generations of women artists. In this event, Joanne will concentrate on her recent biography of the enigmatic crime queen Ngaio Marsh - the woman with the most masculine voice in history - which was conceived as a form of mystery itself. Why did she go to such lengths to conceal her intimate life from the public eye? An illustrated event with images not published in the book. Chair: Director of the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery Linda Tyler.